S6E8 - Creating Alexa: Interview with Inventor Jeff Adams

Does he use Alexa in his own house? We've got a interview with the founder of Alexa, Jeff Adams. MORE QUESTIONS INCLUDE What’s the story of how Alexa came about? How does your faith affect your work in technology? What are the next big things coming with voice technology? PLUS, CHRIS & ADAM DISCUSS: Are we good at predicting the next big technology? (seems like… no) How the first automobile relates to the Alexa project Should Alexa be emotionally intelligent? ABOUT JEFF ADAMS Jeff Adams has been a speech technologist for 25 years, spending time at Nuance, Yap, and Amazon. At Amazon, Jeff founded the Alexa Speech Group and led the team of speech and language scientists that built the automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding engines that Alexa runs on. Today he is the CEO and Founder of Colbalt Speech. Links & Resources Check out Jeff Adam’s podcast: The Voice Box More about the Alexander Winton and the founding of the automobile (Saturday Evening Post, 1911). TALK BACK Follow Device & Virtue on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Chris and Adam on Twitter. Support Device & Virtue on Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices