Voicebot Podcast Episode 20 - Derrick Fountain of TRT World News Media Talks Voice AI from Turkey

TRT World is a global news media organization headquartered in
Istanbul, Turkey. Derrick Fountain oversees TRT World's product
and R&D group and has led the launch of three Alexa skills
and Google Assistant apps. TRT World has a news-based voice app
as you might expect, but Derrick's team has also built two games
that reinforce the company's mission around news and its brand.
One of them recently won an award from Google. The apps all have
high production quality with professional voice recordings and
are multi-modal supporting both voice and text. Derrick offers
insight into his start in audio publishing in 2004 and move to
voice in 2007 and 2017 shift to voice assistants. He also
discusses a global view on voice technology and how voice
assistants are being used today in the Middle East.