Tom Hewitson CEO of Labworks Shares 10 Hot Takes from 2.5 Years in Voice - Voicebot Podcast Ep 124

Tom Hewitson is CEO and founder of Labworks.io, a voice app
studio in London known from some of the most popular games on
Alexa such as Would You Rather, Trivia Hero, True or False and
Mental Samurai hosted by actor Rob Lowe.


In this week's episode, Tom offers 10 Hot Takes from 2.5 Years in
voice based on his presentation at the All About Voice Conference
in Munich. He touches on some controversial topics such as lack
of discovery, how closed platforms like Alexa and Google
Assistant stifle innovation, the lack of return on multimodal
efforts, too much focus on persona, and lack of monetization.
It's a rare dose of unvarnished honesty from a voice developer in
a public forum. 


Tom Hewitson founded Labworks in 2016 as a chatbot consultancy
but shifted into voice apps about a year later. Before Labworks,
Tom worked as a freelance journalist and a content designer. He
spent time as a digital editor for Lonely Planet and a content
strategist at Facebook. He earned an M.S. in political journalism
and TV production from City University London and an
undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Sussex.