release BotTalk New Release - Code Name Apollo 11 BotTalk's new features include: in-skill purchasing support, REST API requests, improved voice user experience.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 20: March 29, 2019 Alexa Blueprints for Business, BMW Advertisements in Amazon Echo and Google Assistant, Mark Cuban on Voice, Best Multimodal Alexa Skills.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 19: March 22, 2019 Voice Purchasing Rose in 2018, Google Home Hub Captures 40% Smart Devices Market Share in Australia, BotTalk releases a new version.
release BotTalk New Release - Code Name Concorde BotTalk's new features include: voice templates with "prelisten" in the browser function and one click voice apps creation.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 18: February 15, 2019 Alexa Skill Blueprints for productive Skills, Google Assistant's new interpreter mode, Mastercard's Sonic Branding.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 17: February 1, 2019 Amazon Announced 80,000 Alexa Skills Worldwide, BBC delivers 256 million Voice Streams, Google adds Voice Input and Spoken Results to Web Search.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 16: December 14, 2018 Google brings News AI to the Assistant, Amazon releases real-time Location Services API and ProactiveEvents API, Consumers' top need from Assistants is Understanding.
release BotTalk New Release - Code Name InSight Reimagining Alexa Flash Briefings. Unique features: Use Google Spreadsheets, custom APIs, dynamic data, mix and match different feeds!
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 15: November 30, 2018 Echo Dot #1 selling product on Amazon globally, Alexa Skills Challenge for $150K in total prizes, Amazons AWS re:Invent recap videos.
guides Creating Voice Applications - From Novice to Professional - BotTalk Course Table of Contents 1. “Hello, world!” - it doesn’t take a lot to make an Assistant talk - sendText 2. Assistant asks it’s first Question - getInput 3. Understanding different ways
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 14: November 23, 2018 Skype calling now available on Alexa, Hey Google now available on iPhone, Skills built on Alexa Presentation Language now clear for certification.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 13: November 16, 2018 Storyline discontinues the free version of their skill building tool, BotTalk offers Storyline users a free option to export their skills, Google introduces broadcasting between Assistant on your phone and Google Home Speaker
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 12: November 2, 2018 US Smart Speaker Users Rise to 57 Million, Alexa Reminders API, Alexa Presentation Language (beta), Alexa Recommendation Errors down by 12%.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 11: October 26, 2018 Voice Ratings for Alexa Skills. More Insights with Skill Enablement and Account Linking Metrics. Was it the Right Time for Facebook to Launch Portal?
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 10: October 19, 2018 74% of consumers say they have used voice search in the past month, SoundHound to power Moto Voice Feature, Volvo creates fleet management Skill.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 9: October 12, 2018 Facebook Portal is a video chat device with Alexa built-in, Google Home Hub has no camera, but attractive use cases and pricing, Amazon's newest Alexa-related patent.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 8: October 5, 2018 Google introduces digital goods and Google Sign-In in their Actions. Amazon allows Skills to connect to each other. 24% of consumers own smart speakers.
release BotTalk New Release - Code Name SU-24 Today we're very excited to announce the Next Big Thing in Voice - Plugins. The possibilities of how you can extend the functionality of BotTalk are now endless. Welcome, programmers =)
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 7: September 28, 2018 Amazon Pay is now available in Europe for Skills, BMW integrates Alexa and Cortana, Facebook to debut portal video chat device, Smart Voice Conference 2018.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 6: September 21, 2018 Amazon's bombshell hardware event, Alexa Presentation Language, design without interface, inner workings of Intent History and upcoming bots.cologne meetup.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 5: September 14, 2018 Amazon introduces newest Alexa Champions, Google reveals the process of creating I/O '18 Actions, BotTalk releases a new version. How to test In-Skill Products for greater customer experience.
release BotTalk New Release - Code Name SU-21 Great set of new features for the best Alexa Skills / Google Actions made by humans: in-browser audio preview, test-driven development, built-in slot types and conditional steps.
voiceweekly Voice Weekly Issue 4: September 7, 2018 Amazon announces quick-start templates for popular skills, Google answers with Sample Actions and Samsung is launching SDK fro Bixby.
release BotTalk New Release - Code Name SU-19 BotTalk has just released a new version code named SU-19. And here are the top features of this release.
guides Introducing Templates Easy to edit templates for the most common voice use cases. Just copy and paste them into BotTalk - and deploy to Amazon Alexa or Google Home. It's that easy!