Hearing Voices By Matt Hartman This week's news about voice computing apps, delivered directly to your inbox. 895 subscribers 57 issues Subscribe to my list This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
Hearing Voices - Issue #57, or voice assistants "Struggled to be helpful" says survey #57 Sep 7, 2018
Hearing Voices - Issue #55, or "because we've definitely been clamoring for that..." #55 Aug 24, 2018
#54 Aug 17, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #54, or "A big week in podcast monetization" – "Last week marked the beginning of at least two distinct experiments for monetizing podcasts: deeper
#53 Aug 10, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #53, or "A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security...NBD" – "Clearly, voice shopping is not yet in the stage of being a mass market product" — an unnamed source
#52 Aug 3, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #52, or "what first mover advantage?" – "The voice market is propelled by a basic desire to communicate more effectively and therefore its po
#51 Jul 27, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #51, or "Putting words in people's mouths" – "Republicans and Democrats predict this high-tech way of putting words in someone's mouth will become
#50 Jul 13, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #50, or "Low Volume" – "Alexa, how do I treat muscle cramps in my leg?" - returns 0 valid answers"Alexa, which voice-focused
#49 Jun 22, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #49, or “history in escapist vignettes” – “It sounds like Snips is playing a little bit of buzz
#48 May 25, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #48, or "Position Zero" – “Nothing is more convenient than Voice.”- Gary Vaynerchuk (at #VoiceCon this week)"Nothing is more c
#47 May 18, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #47, or "Laurel" – I need more voice UX related quotations to butcher. Got any?
#46 May 4, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #46, or "polite words would just get in the way" – "What I want from you is...your voice."- Ursula, The Little Mermaid"What I want from you is...to forw
#45 Apr 6, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #45, or "show me my best selfies" – "Yeah, happy subscriber."- Andrew Mason, Groupon founder turned voice developer, about this newslette
#44 Mar 23, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #44, or "The YCombinator edition" – "Discover our family of amazing ASMRtists!"- An actual sentence, from the app Tingles. Apparently I w
#43 Mar 16, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #43, or "i'll just carry on living my life..." – "I was going to listen to that, but then I just carried on living my life."- Alda Snow, Forgetting Sa
#42 Feb 23, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #42, or Alexa, give me a free Chobani yogurt! – Sponsored (by me. so, you know, not really sponsored):Want to buy a popular alexa skill with 14,000+
#41 Feb 6, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #41 or "Alexa, ignore this superbowl ad which says the word Alexa" – Want to buy a popular alexa skill with 10,000+ installs? LMK, Wiffy is for sale.
#40 Jan 19, 2018 Hearing Voices - Issue #40, or "Basilar membrane and otolaryngology are not auto-correlations...is something Tacitron 2 can pronounce" – "He thought it was time to present the present.” - example of Tacitron 2 discerning the difference be
#38 Dec 17, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #38, or Misunderstanding 5% of things you hear...is actually good – "[With audio production], you’re on a constant journey of keeping up with technology."- Andrew Mason,
#37 Dec 4, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #37, or "Amazon Payments in Alexa Skillz 🤩" – "People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need conte
#36 Nov 17, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #36, or "when i speak a command...it executes a shell script..." – "In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio."- Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio
#35 Nov 10, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #35, or "do android phones dream of electric cases" – "Rather than spending 18/mo on @MattHartman's HearingVoices, i spent 18 on a cocktail so he could hea
#34 Nov 3, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #34, or "Take Me To The Good Part" – "How could there have been stories about space travel before [space travel existed?]" "The writers m
#33 Oct 27, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #33 – "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."- William Shakespeare"The ESPN app in Flash News Briefing
#32 Oct 20, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #32, or "Ok Google, set phasers to kill" – "Ok Google, set phasers to kill" - You, to your Google Home"Ok Matt, I want that premium data" - You,
#31 Oct 3, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #31, or "Special Edition w/someone actually making $$$ from Alexa" – "As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product"- Jef Raskin, conceived & star
#30 Sep 20, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #30, or "My best voice productivity hack yet" – "The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent."- Alexander Graham Bell"T
#29 Sep 8, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #29, or "Alexa, open Cortana" – "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker"Despite the a
#28 Aug 29, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #28, or "Podcast Craze Takes Hold of New York City" – "Alexa, drum roll please" -- You, to your Echo. "Alexa, tweet out to everyone this awesome newsletter
#27 Aug 11, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #27, or "VCs Don't Love Podcasting, but..." – "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."- Cicero"Silence is one of the great arts of conve
#26 Jul 23, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #26, or "Nobody said that running a feudal fiefdom would be easy..." – "Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift."- Les Back, author of Academic Diary"Forw
#25 Jun 23, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #25, or "there are two kinds of people" – "There are two types of people, those who need closure."- Microsoft Cortanta Joke"There are two types
#24 Jun 19, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #24, or "Alexa, buy me something from whole foods. Okay, buying Whole Foods." – "In every battle, there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then, he who continu
#23 May 26, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #23, or "AI Poly, is this a refrigerator?" – "I like criticism. It makes you strong."-- Lebron James, who last night passed Michael Jordan to beco
#22 May 19, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #22, or "Patrón on Alexa allows you to easily find and make tequila cocktails from the comfort of home." – "In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone." - Don Norman"In my opinion, my n
#21 May 5, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #21, or "Is apple Siri-ous about making a speaker?" – "VoiceLabs estimates that 24.5 million voice-driven devices will be shipped this year, almost four ti
#20 Apr 27, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #20, or "no $$$ more problems" – "O.K. Google, what is the Whopper burger?" -- TV ad Burger King ran. It worked on people's Google Hom
#19 Apr 7, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #19 or "Retention Do's and Dont's for Voice" – "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov"I do not fear people forwarding t
#18 Mar 31, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #18, or "WTF is a Speechcon (spoiler: it'semoticon for speech)" – "The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century
#17 Mar 24, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #17 or "My name is really Siri...and my roommates name is Alexa!" – "My roommate's name is Alexa!"- a real person I met named Siri
#16 Mar 17, 2017 Hearing Voices - soundwave tattoos – "If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why i
#15 Mar 10, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #15, or "the SXSW edition, sort of" – "Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently came into this office, placed a little machine on our desk, turned a c
#14 Mar 3, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #14, or "Amazon, can you help me with a murder case?" – What do we want? Great voice interfaces!When do we want them? Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding
#13 Feb 17, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #13, or "Alexa Skills Ecosystem" – "There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and
#12 Feb 10, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #12 or "google voice + chatbot + amazon polly + oculus lip sync + morph3d avatar = VR bot – "I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were gre
#11 Feb 3, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #11, or "Daughter who lives with an Alexa. And whose name is Alexa" – "My parents would ask it to play games or play music...even though I want to listen to music and I wa
#10 Jan 20, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #10 or "That was easy [to say]" – A bit of a different format this week. Rather than including many links, I focused on one story and i
#9 Jan 13, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #9 or "voice camp won't make you a better chorus member" – "Alexa, initiate self-destruct sequence"
#8 Dec 23, 2016 Hearing Voices - Issue #8, or "Elite Dangerous Ship Assistant powered by Alexa" – "Enable everyone to talk to every thing" -- @dagk, creator of Siri & Viv"Enable your friends to l
#7 Dec 16, 2016 Hearing Voices - Issue #7 or "a new app can translate your crying baby" – "Well I'm on the downeaster Alexa"- Billy Joel"I assume 'downeaster' is an Alexa app in private beta"
#6 Dec 9, 2016 Hearing Voices - Issue #6, or "Alexa, how many days until Hannukah?" – "To hear a sound is to see a space." - Louis I. Kahn, 20th-century architect"Interesting piece on nat
#5 Dec 2, 2016 Hearing Voices - Issue #5 or "Alexa Devs, Get Excited" – "[Here's a bunch of new stuff about Amazon Alexa]" -- Jeff Bezos (maybe) "OMFG so much voice computin
#4 Nov 18, 2016 Hearing Voices - Issue #4 or "Now You're Driving With Robots" – "I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions." -- Tom Waits"Pleas
#3 Nov 11, 2016 Hearing Voices - Issue #3 or "Alexa, Turn on the TV" – not a subscriber? join here: hearingvoices.xyzI swear this newsletter is weekly despite me publishing
#2 Oct 28, 2016 Hearing Voices - Issue #2 or "Parsey McParseface" – The Internet broke last Friday, so this Friday's got twice as many links. Enjoy.If you do enjoy heari
#1 Oct 14, 2016 Revue issue #1 – Do you hear voices...on Amazon Echo, Google Home, or Apple's Siri? Me too. This is the first installm
