Voicebot Podcast Episode 32 - Dr. Ahmed Bouzid CEO of Witlingo

Ahmed Bouzid is founder and CEO of Witlingo, a company that helps
brands, non-profits and other organizations ranging from The
Motley Fool and Berlitz to AARP and a successful Virginia
Gubernatorial candidate create voice enabled apps. Ahmed has more
than 20 years experience working in speech technology. He worked
on the early version of Alexa while at Amazon, was a product
leader at Angel.com and even built a natural language voice
assistant in the 1990’s. He has a Masters Degree in computer
science, a PhD from Virginia Tech, is the founder of the
Ubiquitous Voice Society association and is a lecturer at Weber
State University. 


In this week's episode, we talk about voice assistant development
in the 1990's, the creation of voice interaction authoring tools
for non-developers, the idea behind web pages for voice, what it
was like working on the Amazon Alexa team and his first two years
of work at Witlingo. We even spend some time assessing the
leading voice assistant platform strengths and weaknesses and
touch on the importance of the Gutenberg parenthesis. It's the
longest Voicebot Podcast episode yet, but its packed with history
and insight. Enjoy.