Voice Developer Year in Review 2020 with Dabble Lab, Rumble Studio, and XAPPmedia - Voicebot Podcast Ep 184

For 2020, we decided to have a voice developer-specific
year-in-review episode to make sure we spent sufficient time
focused on the events that were the most impactful for
developers. We were lucky to get three very experienced guests to
discuss topics ranging from voice on mobile and the rise of
custom voice assistants to voice for customer support, the rise
of audio, the hype/utility disconnect, messaging, COVID-19, and
much more.


Michael Myers is vice president of product and head of
development at XAPPmedia. XAPP has brought more than 1200 Alexa
skills and Google Actions live for several hundred companies.
More recently, the company has introduced its machine teaching
technologies for complex intent models and custom assistant
development. Michael was honored as a Voicebot Top Leader in
Voice for 2020 in the technologist category.


Also joining us is Voicetech Carl. Carl Robinson is host of the
Voicetech Podcast and CEO of Rumble Studio. He has hosted over 80
episodes of his own podcast but this week shares his thoughts as
a guest commentator from his home in Paris. He talks a bit about
Rumble Studio and its podcast interview automation technology as
well as the news of the year. Carl was also honored as a Voicebot
Top leader in Voice for 2020 in the influencer category.


Steve Tingiris is CEO and founder of Dabble Lab, a leading
developer of conversational AI-based experiences across numerous
platforms. Dabble Lab has more than 200 YouTube video tutorials
about developing voice interactive experiences on Alexa, Cortana,
Twilio, Jovo, and more, with more than a million views
combined.  Steve is also a beta user of GPT-3 which we get
into today.