Podcasts by Alexa Dev Chat
Dave Isbitski discusses various aspects of Alexa (Alexa Skills Kit and Alexa Voice Service), natural language understanding, voice recognition, and how developers like you are building innovative solutions. The podcasts include Alexa news, developer tips, and interviews with Alexa developers and Alexa employees.
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Episode 027 - Building Fun and Engaging Voice Games with Alexa from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In episode 27 of the podcast Dave chats with Chris Morrow, Sr. Producer for Alexa Games at Amazon. They discuss the current state of VoiceFirst Games, tips for creating engaging player experiences,...
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Episode 029 - Women in Voice from 2020-09-01T12:20:41
In episode 29 of the podcast I chat with Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek, CEO of Women in Voice. We talked about the women in voice idea, how things got started, the celebration of their 2nd anniversary,...
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Episode 028 - Lunch With the Voice Community in a Pandemic World from 2020-08-13T16:03:07
In episode 28 of the podcast Dave chats with Michal Stanislawek, co-founder of Utter.one and Karol Stryja, VP of Growth at Utter.one. Together, they have created Voice Lunch, a safe and inclusive w...
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Episode 026 - VoiceFirst Conversations with Amazon Music from 2019-12-27T23:01:39
In episode 26 of the podcast Dave chats with Kintan Brahmbhatt, Director and Head of Product at Amazon Music. The two discuss the beginnings of Amazon Music, the evolution of conversational interac...
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Episode 025 - Chatting with Your Customers Daily through Flash Briefings from 2019-08-26T19:36:10
In episode 25 of the podcast Dave chats with Dr. Teri Fisher, a TEDx Speaker, Physician, Podcaster and well known face in the #VoiceFirst community. Teri has created a wealth of online eudcational ...
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Episode 024 - The Voice Generation Will Include All Generations from 2018-09-07T01:25:29
In this episode Dave chats with Theo Lau about how Voice can enable access to technology in previously excluded groups. This includes younger children who can speak but not read and write yet as we...
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Episode 023 - VoiceFirst in 2018, Where Are We Now? from 2018-07-25T11:03:18
In this episode Dave catches up with fan favorite, Brian Roemmele. The two discuss all things #VoiceFirst, how things are shaping up in 2018, is it living up to expectations, and what has us excite...
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Episode 022 - Getting Started with Alexa for Business from 2018-06-18T13:30:25
In this episode Dave chats with Collin Davis, GM, Alexa For Business at Amazon. Alexa for Business was launched in the fall of 2017 and helps makes it simple to use Alexa within your work organizat...
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Episode 021 - The Beauty of Language and the Art of Conversational Interfaces from 2018-05-24T14:28:51
In this episode Dave chats with Pilar Manchon, Director of Cognitive Interfaces at Amazon. Pilar has a long history in AI and is fluent in multiple spoken languages. The two discuss human context, ...
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Episode 020 - Building Community in the Era of Voice from 2018-04-24T17:54:29
In the episode Dave chats with Pete Erickson, entrepreneur and founder of Modev. They talk about growing the Voice community through local meetups, what it really means to get involved at a person ...
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Episode 019 - Looking Back at the Year in Voice and What's Next from 2018-03-08T16:15:53
This episode reflects back on Voice Design in 2017 and what we might expect to see this coming year. Dave brings back guest Paul Cutsinger and the two discuss the rise of multiple Alexa device form...
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Episode 018 - A Voice First Future with Brian Roemmele from 2017-11-22T13:48:50
In this episode Dave chats with Brian Roemmele about the future of voice and conversational user interfaces. Brian is a published writer and has been part of the tech industry for decades. He is a ...
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Episode 017 - An Alexadev Journey with Noelle LaCharite from 2017-10-10T13:28:01
In this episode Dave chats with with Noelle LaCharite, Senior Technical Program Manager on the Alexa Machine Learning team. Noelle has helped customers across many teams at Amazon including Amazon ...
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Episode 016 - The Amazon Alexa Fund and Alexa Accelerator with Rodrigo and Aviel from 2017-08-28T12:00:29
In this episode Dave chats with with Rodrigo Prudencio from Amazon's Alexa Fund and Aviel Ginzburg, Managing Director Alexa Accelerator powered by Techstars. The Amazon Alexa Fund provides up to $1...
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Episode 015 - Creating Visual Alexa Skills for Echo Show with Jen Rapp from 2017-07-13T13:03:04
In this episode Dave chats with with Jen Rapp. Jen served as the Alexa Skills Kit product manager for developing the new interfaces Alexa skill developers use with Echo Show. She and her team worke...
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Episode 014 - Voice Enabling Home Appliances with the GE Appliances WiFi Connect Cloud Team from 2017-06-16T14:24:32
In the episode Dave chats with the GE Appliances WiFi Connect Cloud team. They have taken an interesting approach to their Alexa Skill, rather than creating multiple skills for each GE appliance in...
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Episode 013 - Creating Alexa Skills Using Bespoken Tools with John Kelvie from 2017-05-17T13:00:53
In the episode Dave chats with John Kelvie. John is the founders of Bespoken, a suite of tools that helps developers with building, debugging and monitoring their Alexa Skills.
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Episode 012 - Alexa Skill Certification with Sameer Lalwani from 2017-04-17T16:43:52
In the episode Dave chats with Sameer Lalwani, Sr. Program Manager on the Alexa Skills Certification team at Amazon. Sameer shares best practices for getting your skill published as well as guidanc...
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Episode 011 - Alexa Smart Home Partner Network with Zach Parker from 2017-03-24T13:22:52
In the episode Dave catches up with Zach Parker, head of Business Development for Alexa Smart Home at Amazon. The two discuss recent product innovations, new customer experiences and current Smart ...
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Episode 010 - Building an Alexa Skill with Flask-Ask with John Wheeler from 2017-02-24T14:22:20
In the episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, John Wheeler. John is the author of the popular Flask-Ask framework which helps developers quickly create and test high quality Alexa skills using the...
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Episode 009 - Alexa Skills with C# and Azure with Bob Lautenbach from 2017-01-24T19:28:49
In the episode Dave chats with Bob Lautenbach. Bob is an Alexa skills developer who has published a bunch open source projects that aid developers in creating Alex skills using C# and Visual Studio...
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Episode 008 - Alexa Skills Department on Amazon.com with Nora Kelly from 2016-11-15T13:51:44
Customers can now browse the breadth of the Alexa skills catalog and discover new Alexa skills on Amazon.com. In this episode Dave chats with Nora Kelly, a Sr. Marketing Manager on Alexa whose team...
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Episode 007 - ASK Weekly and Alexa Community with Mark Carpenter from 2016-10-21T14:10:35
In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, Mark Carpenter, about his popular ASK Weekly Newsletter, the growing Alexa Dev community and Mark's Talking Alexa Podcast.
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Episode 006 - Alexa International Launch with Dean Bryen from 2016-10-06T14:40:22
In this episode Dave chats with UK Alexa Evangelist, Dean Bryen, about the Alexa international launch. The two discuss the developer community in the UK and Germany as well as how to use multiple s...
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Episode 005 - Building Alexa Skills with .NET and Walt Quesada from 2016-09-26T13:55:21
In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, Walt Quesada, about his experience building Alexa Skills with .NET and the Alexa Skills Kit. Walt has also written a course for Pluralsight on the sa...
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Episode 004 - Learning Through Experience with Alexa Hackathons and Paul Cutsinger from 2016-08-29T16:50:13
In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Hackathon Team Manager, Paul Cutsinger. The two chat about early Amazon Developer Day events, how that has turned into a formal Alexa hackathon team, ways deve...
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Episode 003 - Adventures into Alexa Skills Content and Tools with Galactoise and Chiaco from 2016-08-15T16:06:05
In this episode Dave chats with Alexa community members Galactoise and Chiaco about building for the Alexa Skills Kit, creating an engaging Alexa skill, how to test and debug your skills, how they ...
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Episode 002 - A Journey in Voice and a Trip to the Starlanes with Jo Jaquinta from 2016-07-13T00:19:52
In this episode Dave and Alexa community member Jo Jaquinta cover their early gaming backgrounds, how Jo has built an Alexa Space Empire game and what pitfalls he ran into along the way. Jo also co...
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Episode 001 - Smart Home with Charlie Kindel from 2016-07-06T16:47:31
In this episode Dave and Charlie discuss the launch of Smart Home Skill API for Alexa Skills Kit, give insights to some of their own history in Smart Home, talk about what solutions developers are ...
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