Episode 375 The Agentic Alexa Buying My ...

<p>We talk about a few things this week, including Gemini on the Nest, the Alexa Store, an Add-Ons, and the Follow Updates Feature, among other things!</p> 

With new folks getting access to A-Lady Plus every day, we thought it would be good to dust of our A-Lady Plus Omnibus episode, as a primer for those getting their feet wet with the all-new A-Lady. Enjoy! For full show notes and attributions see episode 369. 

In this episode we talk about the death and deprecation of the Assistive Reader as a feature of Alexa devices. We talk about the changes and how the feature lives on in the Kindle App. 

Would you want my voice to be the voice of your Alexa? An interesting raise that can change people’s vocal accents in real time. Instagram rolls out a comprehensive system to check ages on their platform. And is that new Brave search engine becoming a contender? Sponsors: HubSpo ... Show More

<p>This week, OpenAI released its much-anticipated flagship model, GPT-5. We break down what we know about the upgrade, drawing from our initial testing and a special news briefing with Sam Altman. Then, we explain why we were underwhelmed by Amazon’s new Alexa+, which is powered ... Show More

Episode 49: How close are we to living in a world where AI voices sound indistinguishable from humans? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands (https://x.com/NathanLands) delve into this cutting-edge technology. In this episode, the hosts explore groundbreaking AI voi ... Show More

What would happen if you created a digital copy of yourself, powered by AI, and set it loose in the world? Evan Ratliff, longtime tech journalist, decided to find out. He combined a clone of his voice, an AI chatbot, and a phone line—many phone lines, actually—into what are calle ... Show More

<p>AI voice technology has been around for years — think Siri or Alexa — but the magic has been missing. That’s changing, and quickly!</p><p>In this episode, Anish Acharya, General Partner at a16z, and Olivia Moore, Partner at a16z, explore why AI voice is reaching a breakthrough ... Show More

<p>When it comes to preparing for an interview or making an important life decision, more and more people are turning to AI for advice. ChatGPT’s new voice interface, Advanced Voice Mode, allows users to speak out loud and converse with a chatbot as they would with another human ... Show More

We explore the history and evolution of speech recognition, one of the foundational technologies behind voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat ... Show More

Samara chats with the expert voice coach about how to find your real and true voice under the layers of socialization that’s gotten in its way, and what stress does to all of us... which includes, among other things, literally making it harder to speak. This is the episode about ... Show More

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When it comes to preparing for an interview or making an important life decision, more and more people are turning to AI for advice. ChatGPT’s new voice interface, Advanced Voice Mode, allows users to speak out loud and converse with a chatbot as they would with another human — b ... Show More