E5 Gabriel Skantze - Professor in Speech Technology with a specialization in Conversational Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Furhat

100% Corona free episode. Gabriel explains the background of the massive growth of the voice assistant industry since the first breakthrough in 2011.  We talk about how far today's assistants are from the vision from Google and Amazon executives of "Computer" in Star Trek. Also the implication of assistants as Google Duplex passing the Turing test and what this will mean to our relationship to machines. This and much more in episode 5 of Voice-first in Sweden. Don't miss! Photo: In the background, the worlds first speech synthesis machine "Ove" developed by Gunnar Fant, founder of the  Division of Speech, Music, and Hearing (TMH) at KTH.