Two Voice Devs

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Mark and Allen talk about the latest news in the VoiceFirst world from a developer point of view.

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Episode 7 - A different Type of show

We never know where our conversations go, sometimes. This time, Mark and Allen chat about Intents, Slots, Types, Entities, Parameters, and the whole conversational model built around them, especially the slight differences between how Actions and Skills have to treat them.

Sep 10, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Episode 6 - Do you see what I hear?

Just because our skills and actions are Voice First doesn't mean they are voice Only. Alexa and the Google Assistant have a long history of supporting displays in addition to the audio interactions. Mark and Allen dive into all the visual options available for Alexa, Assistant, and Bixby and the interesting differences between the three platforms.

Sep 03, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode 5 - Outages and contexts and storage, oh my!

Did you notice some Actions were having problems last week? Allen and Mark certainly did! So this week, we're talking about what seems to have caused the outage, how this fits in to the overall storage capability for Actions, and how Alexa and Jovo approach session and user storage.

Aug 27, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4 - Tracking the Wily Audio

In an audio-first environment, you want to sound like a movie or TV soundtrack... but with interaction and dynamic responses. With Google's flavor of SSML and Alexa's APLA, you can create these responses. Mark and Allen explore how these two methods are similar, and where they differ. For more info: Google's SSML "par" and "media" tags: https://developers.google.com/assistant/conversational/ssml#par Nightingale SSML editor: https://actions-on-google-labs.github.io/nightingale-ssml-editor/ Alexa'...

Aug 20, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3 - Open Source Projects

We both have open source projects that we contribute to in the voice community. We talk about our two top ones, Speech Markdown and Multivocal, what they are, and how we feel they're contributing to the growing #VoiceFirst environment. Learn more: Mark's Projects: https://github.com/rmtuckerphx http://ssml.guru/ https://www.speechmarkdown.org/ Allen's Projects: https://github.com/afirstenberg https://multivocal.info/...

Aug 13, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2 - Conversations

Mark and Allen chat about tools we use to build conversations for Alexa and the Google Assistant. Ranging from new tools, such as Alexa Conversations and Google's Actions Builder, to more mature tools, such as Jovo and Dialogflow. We got so excited about the topic, we just couldn't stop! References: Alexa Conversations: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2020/07/introducing-alexa-conversations-beta-a-new-ai-driven-approach-to-providing-conversational-experiences-that...

Aug 06, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1 - Action Links and Quick Links

Learn about Action Links for Google Assistant and Quick Links for Amazon Alexa. A comparison of the features for each voice assistant platform. Links: Action Links - https://developers.google.com/assistant/engagement/action-links Quick Links - https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/create-a-quick-link-for-your-skill.html

Aug 01, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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