Emily Binder joined Jason Fields, Chief Strategy Officer at Voicify, and host Bradley Metrock, CEO of Score Publishing and head of VoiceFirst.FM on This Week in Voice.
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This Week in Voice Podcast: Guests: Emily Binder and Jason Fields (season 3, episode 13) with Bradley Metrock
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Timestamps and stories (sources linked):
1) 04:15: Amazon's Super Bowl ad, featuring Harrison Ford, is already drawing positive reviews in advance of the big game
Amazon is reassuring us that they can be trusted (PR wake)
“Not everything makes the cut” re: Amazon Alexa hardware
I love this - very Bezos: Queen: “Don’t Stop Me Now” plays at the end
Celebrities and testimonial - well cast, diverse (Harrison Ford, Forest Whitaker, Broad City women, astronauts)
A little creepy
Transparency about product failure - brands can make mistakes (this is the zeitgeist we’re in)
10:35 - Amazon Alexa microwave
Clever psychology
2) 11:48 - Siri Shortcuts can be used to steal and send personal data
Moore’s Law (Jason)
15:45 - another Apple security breach with Facetime Groups - microphone on before call is answered
17:50 - is Apple’s quality decreasing?
3) Voicebot.AI Story of the Week: Walmart pulls out of Google Express and Google Shopping Actions
This is about DATA
4) BBC: Are smart speakers good for kids?
Remember Mattel’s Aristotle, a 2017 Alexa kids smart speaker that never made it to market? Because privacy concerns.
It’s complicated
5) "Can we create a non-patriarchal, unprejudiced, post-gender virtual world?"
What is “post-gender”!?
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