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đŸŒ· Open Voice #158: Dutch Voice Coalition at the Voice lunch, Apple WWDC nuggets and antitrust concerns raised by EU.

đŸŒ· Open Voice #158: Dutch Voice Coalition at the Voice lunch, Apple WWDC nuggets and antitrust concerns raised by EU.
By Maarten Lens-FitzGerald • Issue #158 • View online
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Every week I collect the Voice domain developments into a single list of things you shouldn’t have missed.
🌼 VoiceLunchNL: Dutch Voice Coalition đŸ„Ș
What is it, how did it come to be, where is it now, what will it do and how can you participate. Should we develop our own common assistant? Or what about open, inclusive, trustworthy, and sovereign language data sets like this one for several African languages? Egon Verharen, Innovation Manager NPO tells all about The Dutch Voice Coalition we are both working on.
VoicelunchNL on June 16th, 12:00-13:00 (Amsterdam time) via Zoom. Join us 15 mins earlier to chat.
đŸ‘Żâ€â™€ïž Conversation Design Festival 🗣
One more day to get tickets! I will do a presentation about The Dutch Voice Coalition somewhere in the impressive line-up but that is not the reason you should join. Listen in on June 15th and celebrate the people that automate conversations. Organized by the Conversation Design Institute. Let me know you want to join (just reply), I have extra 2 tickets to give away!

🍎 All the apples in one basket đŸ§ș
It takes some digging bet then you get to the voice gold nuggets in and around last weeks WWDC. Siri on other devices plus Safari with voice search to start with.
voicebot.ai  •  Share
Thanks to on-device processing in iOS 15, Siri is getting a huge speed boost along with a lot of very cool new abilities. Impressive.
www.tomsguide.com  •  Share
“I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more machine-learning based audio analysis.” Wait, what? See what you can do with “built-in audio recognition model that allows his Mac to dynamically recognize different sounds as they occur around it: talking, music, elements of the music like vocals and guitars”. Don’t search for a text string, search for audio. Thanks @sam, great find!
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Build voice bots for mobile with Dialogflow and Flutter | Workshop
Build voice bots for mobile with Dialogflow and Flutter | Workshop
đŸŽâ€â˜ ïž Department of privacy and antitrust🔐
“PrivacyMic offers another layer of privacy – you can interact with your device using audio if you choose or you can have another setting where the device can glean information without picking up audio.”
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The EU antitrust watchdog said respondents cited worries over certain exclusivity and tying practices related to voice assistants such as producers of smart devices being prevented from installing a second voice assistant on a device.
A second concern was about voice assistant providers promoting their own services or those of third parties via default settings on devices, thus restricting rivals.
A third concern focused on the troves of data available to providers of voice assistants and smart devices, while a fourth worry was about the lack of inter-operability between devices.
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🚀 Department of new actions and pilots 🍔
De voice-app van WWF. Speel de Rangers Quiz, geef antwoord op de dagelijkse vraag of luister naar een leuk dierenverhaaltje!
www.wwf.nl  •  Share
McDonald’s is testing automated drive-thrus that can recognize your voice. The tech mostly gets orders right - but employees have to step in 20% of the time.
www.businessinsider.fr  •  Share
Die Sprachassistenten von Amazon und Google stellen sich fĂŒr die Fußball-EM auf. Welche Features bieten Alexa und der Google Assistant zur Euro 2020?
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🎓 University of Conversation Design âœđŸŒ
If you have been hanging out lately in any conversation design circles, you’ve probably heard somewhere that your design should “follow Grice’s maxims”. Let’s
uh, unpack that.
botmock.com  •  Share
Krishika Khemani research intern is studying how teams develop and implement conversational interfaces. She is currently looking to interview practitioners. Help her out.
www.horizon.ac.uk  •  Share
Maaike Groenewege
Looking for something to read in the meantime? Here's my library of books on conversation design, language, linguistics etc. A work in progress, I'll add a bit more over time: https://t.co/CluJ0IiAll
#conversationdesign #voicefirst #voicelunch #womeninvoice
Master voice interfaces and build great voice apps of any complexity for any domain by learning both the how’s and why’s of voice development in this book.
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That’s it for this week, I’ll be back next Monday with a new edition of the Open Voice newsletter.
Cheers,
— Maarten Lens-FitzGerald
PS My book ‘Voice - de spraakrevolutie: inzichten en kansen, keeps selling steadily. The ebook version is broken on BOL and Amazon but not on Management book.
I just finished the audio version with the awesome Woozy Agency, so stay tuned for that one. I am pretty proud of how it sounds.
Need help designing and rolling out your Voice Strategy or want to start with an energizing keynote or workshop? Let me know: 0646333308
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