This Week In Voice, Episode 12

An all-star panel (Emily M. Bender, Karen Kaushansky, Jess Thornhill) discuss the latest in voice technology news, including Amazon's upcoming foray into #VoiceFirst Alexa-driven glasses, Voicebot.ai's Story Of The Week in which VoiceLabs reports voice apps are getting double the "retention" over nine months ago, Amazon's Fire HD 10 tablet as an "Echo Show in tablet form," Google's new Google Home Mini hitting the market on October 4, Roku's smart speaker offering heading to market, and a riveting discussion around whether developing Alexa skills is essentially working for Amazon for free. The Medium post referenced by Emily M. Bender in this episode, "Google Home vs. Alexa: Two Simple User Experience Design Gestures That Delighted A Female User," can be found here: https://medium.com/startup-grind/google-home-vs-alexa-56e26f69ac77 This Week In Voice is hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and is part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.