*Lots* of news in voice, and not just that my 5-min daily podcast TLDRdaily is back (ps subscribe on Apple, Anchor, Breaker, or Pocketcasts or use this RSS link: http://bit.ly/dybpodcast_rss)

> Try SoundBranch, which bills itself as voice-based team communication app.

> Read Twitter Should Make A Podcast App by @AlexCartaz

> Read Subscription platform Substack adds podcast support (TechCrunch). I haven’t tired yet but looks / sounds interesting.

> Try saying “Ok Google, turn on interpreter mode.” Google launched interpreter mode at a bunch of hotels. But you can also try it on any Google Assistant enabled device.

> Check out CuteCircuit’s new Sound Shirt, which turns sounds into haptic sensations. Pretty wild.

> Read about how The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse

> Developers, watch this video on the Alexa Presentation Language (which lets developers build multimodal skills w/visual elements e.g., images, slide shows, & customize the output for different devices)

> Developers, Read (or listen to) Constructing Multi-Turn Conversational Voice Experiences with a Knowledge Graph

> Not that you need this, but NYTimes wrote A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Into Podcasts

> Listen to the 5-min podcast Congressional Investigations 101. You know I love short-form podcasts and this one comes in at exactly 5 minutes. The guest in this episode is Barry Hartman, no relation. Just kidding, he’s my dad.

> This is super cool: the first analysis of vocal emotional bursts (think “ooh”) and what emotions they correlate to. Really interesting data set. Gasp! First audio map of oohs, aahs and uh-ohs spans 24 emotions

> Check out 15 Best Chatbot Datasets for Machine Learning

> Academics, Skim this paper on Speech & Language Processing

> Peter Rojas will be speaking at Voice of the Car Summit in SF

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That’s it for this week, have a great weekend!

– Matt Hrt.mn

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