Bixby Developers Chat

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Are you a voice developer or designer? Are you excited about the future of voice? Are you curious about an ambient computing future where our TV's, appliances, watches, phones, and more can talk with you to create new experiences? Join us on the Bixby Developers Chat to learn conversational AI. Join host Roger Kibbe as he talks with guests about voice, AI, Bixby, technology innovation, and where the exciting Voice industry is going,

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Weather, Philosophy and Voice with Steven Arkonovich

Show Notes: In this episode, we talk with Steven Arkonovich who is well known for writing the Big Sky weather capsule and is a professor of philosophy at Reed College. Steven shares how he got started with voice. He was a very early Alexa developer and was driven by wanting to control music playback and home automation devices. Steven is most well known for his Big Sky capsule and he shares his motivation for building Big Sky and how it has evolved over the years. We talk with Steven about what ...

Jun 08, 2020•41 min

Meet the Viv Labs Bixby Evangelists

This episode is a little different, we turn the "microphone around" so to speak and interview the Viv Labs Bixby evangelism team. The Viv Labs Developer Evangelists (Advocates) are responsible for introducing Bixby to and supporting ongoing Bixby development for developers, designers and organizations. You may have seen John, Jonathan or Roger at conferences, seen and heard them in videos or followed them on Twitter. But what are their backgrounds? Where did they work? What brought them to voice...

May 25, 2020•59 min

Voice and Shortcasts with Armel Beaudry of Trebble.fm

Show Notes: In this episode, we talk with Armel Beaudry, the CEO and founder of Trebble.fm . Learn about Armel's journey from growing up in Cameroon to voice-first entrepreneur! Armel shares the history of Trebble.fm, how it started as a music sharing app, and evolved into a shortcast platform. A shortcast is a 2-3 minute podcast. You may also know them as Flash Briefings on Alexa. We talk about the advantages of shortcasts and how less is more; Shortcasts allow you to get what you need in the s...

May 11, 2020•1 hr

Voice in Education with Julie Daniel Davis

Show Notes: In this episode, we talk with Julie Daniel Davis. Julie is the "voice" for voice in education, a Bixby Premier Developer, and an Alexa Champion. Julies shares how she was an early adopter of voice in the classroom. She shares the story of getting her first voice assistant, being inspired by the first Alexa Conference, and early and ongoing experiments putting Alexa and voice devices into a classroom. Julie is the host of a podcast and flash briefing "Voice in Education' and she talks...

Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 1 min

Voice Development and Empowering Women in Voice with Jennie Stenhouse

Show Notes: In this episode, we talk with Jennie Stenhouse. Jennie is an accomplished voice developer and the COO of Women in Voice We talk with Jennie about how she got started with voice, the creative process she goes through, and how one can leverage a technical framework/capability over and over again to unleash creativity. Jennie is particularly passionate about combining location data with voice and we discuss what she has built here and opportunities for the future including how adding bi...

Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min

Talking Jovo with Jan König and Ruben Aegerter

Show Notes: In this episode, we talk with Jan König and Ruben Aegerter about the Jovo framework. The Jovo framework allows one to build cross platform voice and conversational AI applications. Jovo has long supported Alexa and Google assistant but with the release of v3, Jovo now supports Bixby. We dive into building a Bixby capsule with Jovo and what it takes to add Bixby support to an existing Jovo voice experience. The talk ranges from the origins of Jovo and its evolution to its future. We t...

Mar 30, 2020•51 min

Voice Development, Speech Markdown and Jovo with Mark Tucker

Show Notes: In this episode, we talk to Mark Tucker. Mark is a very accomplished voice developer, an Alexa Champion and a Bixby Premier Developer. Mark talks about getting started with voice on a TI 99/4A, developing his first experiences for Alexa and later Bixby and how he created the Speech Markdown framework. If you want to hear from a developer who started tinkering with voice, went on to develop several voice experiences and now is a very well known and successful voice developer and archi...

Mar 17, 2020•46 min

Voice Development and the Creative process with Ilarna Nche

Show Notes In this episode we talk to Ilarna Nche, a very accomplished voice developer, and recently announced Alexa Champion and the Bixby Developer of the Year. Ilarna shares valuable insight into how to be a successful voice developer. If you are a voice designer/developer, aspiring to be one, or simply interested in the creative and technical process behind building a successful voice experience, this is a must listen episode. Ilarna talks about how she started developing for voice. She disc...

Mar 02, 2020•33 min

Gaming, Flash Briefings and Voice with Adrian Simple

Show Notes: In this episode, we talk with Adrian Simple who created the very successful shortcast/flash briefing, The Gaming Observer. Are you interested in short form podcasts/flash briefings? Do you wonder how to get started? What is the intersection of voice and gaming? What is the future of voice and gaming? Listen to Adrian Simple talk about all of these questions and more. Adrian tells us how he came up with the idea for The Gaming Observer, how he launched it and how it has grown. We talk...

Feb 17, 2020•38 min

Project Voice Conference - Interviews #3

The Samsung Bixby team was at the Project Voice conference in Chattanooga Tennessee. The conference was an incredible experience and a chance to meet, greet and work with fellow industry innovators. Roger recorded 33 interviews with developers, designers, podcasters and all around voice gurus. Listen to hear their insights into where voice is and where it needs to go! In this episode, the last of our 3 part series from Project Voice we will hear from the 10 more people. Guests Tom Hewitson - @to...

Jan 30, 2020•53 min

Project Voice Conference - Interviews #2

The Samsung Bixby team was at the Project Voice conference in Chattanooga Tennessee. The conference was an incredible experience and a chance to meet, greet and work with fellow industry innovators. Roger recorded 33 interviews with developers, designers, podcasters and all around voice gurus. Listen to hear their insights into where voice is and where it needs to go! In this episode we hear from 8 voice leaders. Tomorrow we will release the last set of interviews which are not be be missed Gues...

Jan 29, 2020•42 min

Project Voice Conference - Interviews #1

Show Notes The Samsung Bixby team was at the Project Voice conference in Chattanooga Tennessee. The conference was an incredible experience and a chance to meet, greet and work with fellow industry innovators. Roger recorded 33 interviews with developers, designers, podcasters and all around voice gurus. Listen to hear their insights into where voice is and where it needs to go! In this episode, we hear from the first 16 people interviewed. Next week we will release the second set of interviews ...

Jan 24, 2020•58 min

Science Fiction and Voice Experiences with Ryan Jordan

Guest: Ryan Jordan Ryan Jordan is a successful Science Fiction author (pen name: Lincoln Cole) and a software and voice developer and designer. Ryan recently won the grand prize for Best Bixby Capsule in the 2019 Bixby DevJam for his capsule, Tempest Rising which is an engaging space adventure game. Show Notes: Ryan has taken his creativity and passion as an author and brought it to voice experiences. Ryan is the author of over a dozen different Bixby Capsules ranging from games to translation t...

Jan 09, 2020•28 min

Introduction to Bixby Developers Chat

Welcome to the Bixby Developers Chat podcast. We will be exploring the world of voice and Bixby development. Each episode we will talk about design and development of voice, with amazing guests who have created compelling voice experiences! Stay tuned for our first full episode soon. It is one not to be missed - we will be talking to a Science Fiction author who has brought his creative ideas to voice experiences. All Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at: bixbydev.buzzsprout...

Jan 09, 2020•1 min

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