Hearing Voices This week's news about voice computing apps, delivered directly to your inbox. 555 subscribers 25 issues Subscribe to my list This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
#25 June 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 June 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 April 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 April 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 March 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 March 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 March 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 March 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 March 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 February 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 February 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 February 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 January 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 January 13, 2017 Hearing Voices - Issue #9 or "voice camp won't make you a better chorus member" – "Alexa, initiate self-destruct sequence"
#8 December 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 December 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 December 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 December 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 November 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 November 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 October 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 October 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
