Speechly with Otto Söderlund - Episode 35

In this episode, Roger talks with Otto Söderlund. Otto is the CEO and co-founder of Speechly. Speechly is voice enabling mobile apps, the web, and more with its speech tools and framework.

Otto and Roger discuss:

• Our shared early computing experiences
• Otto's career path prior to Speechly
• Early experiences with voice
• The founding of Speechly
• What Speechly does and why it is different
• Speechly's tech which combines ASR and NLU to provide not only performance gains but also better understanding. Why combining these provides an advantage
• The responsibility of technologists and AI to free us from needing to learn the tech and to humanize our technology
• Speechly and eCommerce
• Multimodality
• The opportunities for voice in B2B/Business
• The huge workforce that benefits from tech but also benefits from tech getting out of the way and how voice is an enabler.
• Why the "Angry Birds" of voice is likely a business application
• The opportunities for voice
• Otto's favorite voice experience
• Otto's short terms and long term prediction. Why the voice industry will go away and that's a good thing

Links from the Show
Speechly - www.speechly.com
Speechly demo of using voice for eCommerce search - fashion.speechly.com
Getting started with Speechly - www.speechly.com/get-started

Keeping in Touch
Otto on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ottosoderlund
Otto on Twitter -@OttoSoderlund
Speechly on Twitter - @SpeechlyAPI

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Samsung

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