| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.02.2022 | Voice AI Predictions 2022 with 6 More Industry Leaders – Voicebot Podcast Ep 244 | Voice AI Predictions 2022 with 6 More Industry Leaders – Voicebot Podcast Ep 244
Bret Kinsella on February 25, 2022 at 8:15 am
Six more industry leaders join with Voicebot’s Bret Kinsella to discuss 2022 voice AI predictions, barriers to ad... |
| 23.11.2019 | U.S. Consumers Do Express a Preference for Female Gendered Voice Assistants According to New Research | U.S. Consumers Do Express a Preference for Female Gendered Voice Assistants According to New Research
Bret Kinsella on November 23, 2019 at 1:04 pm
There are intermittent discussions within the voice technology community and in the media ab... |
| 21.11.2019 | Correct Call-to-Action Recall by Users is Twice as High for Human Voices as Synthetic for Voice Apps | Correct Call-to-Action Recall by Users is Twice as High for Human Voices as Synthetic for Voice Apps
Bret Kinsella on November 21, 2019 at 4:38 pm
You may think that consumer preference for human over synthetic voices in voice apps is simpl... |
| 20.11.2019 | New Report Says Consumers Have 71% Preference for Human Over Robot Voices for Voice Assistant User Experience | New Report Says Consumers Have 71% Preference for Human Over Robot Voices for Voice Assistant User Experience
Bret Kinsella on November 20, 2019 at 11:00 am
Voicebot Research has found that not only do consumers prefer human voices over syn... |
| 17.06.2019 | The Re MARS Interviews with Pulse Labs, Volley, theCUBE, Reuters, Bondad, and Philosophical Creations – Voicebot Podcast Ep 101 | The Re MARS Interviews with Pulse Labs, Volley, theCUBE, Reuters, Bondad, and Philosophical Creations – Voicebot Podcast Ep 101
Bret Kinsella on June 17, 2019 at 12:19 pm
Today’s episode is a compilation of six interviews captured onsite at... |
| 06.06.2019 | Alexa Conversations to Automate Elements of Skill Building Using AI and Make User Experiences More Natural While Boosting Discovery | Alexa Conversations to Automate Elements of Skill Building Using AI and Make User Experiences More Natural While Boosting Discovery
Bret Kinsella on June 6, 2019 at 10:45 am
Amazon announced Alexa Conversations at the re:MARS conference yes... |
| 22.02.2019 | Voice technology is becoming ubiquitous | This is the third in our series of four deep dives into our technology based investing themes – outlined in January. |
| 18.12.2018 | Meet Paul Bernard, Director of Worldwide Corporate Development of the Alexa Fund at Amazon | Bernard used to lead inorganic growth initiatives for Kindle and Digital Services
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more s... |
| 16.07.2018 | Pulse Labs Co-Founders Discuss Voice App Testing and the Alexa Accelerator – Voicebot Podcast Ep 52 | Pulse Labs Co-Founders Discuss Voice App Testing and the Alexa Accelerator – Voicebot Podcast Ep 52
Bret Kinsella on July 16, 2018 at 3:55 pm
Pulse Labs co-founders Abhishek Suthan (CEO) and Dylan Zwick (CPO) brought their crowdsourced voic... |
| 22.05.2018 | For Madrona Venture Group, four IPOs in 20 months and a brand-new fund | Madrona Venture Group typically flies under the radar of Silicon Valley reporters, partly because it’s in Seattle. But the 23-year-old, early-stage venture firm has been having a pretty good run of late — success it just used to close its s... |
| 02.05.2018 | Google announces investment program to back digital assistant startups | Google said today it wants to supercharge digital assistant platforms by investing in companies that help in development of such services.
The company made the announcement in a blog post attributed to Nick Fox, vice president of search and... |
| 02.05.2018 | Google announces investment program to back digital assistant startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google said today it wants to supercharge digital assistant platforms by investing in companies that help in development of such servic... |
| 02.05.2018 | Google will start investing in early-stage startups that use the Assistant | Google is betting big on the Assistant ecosystem and it’s now putting its money where its mouth is. The company announced today it’s launching a new program that will provide investment capital and other resources to early-stage startups th... |
| 02.05.2018 | Google инвестирует в стартапы, которые занимаются разработкой сервисов для ассистента Google Assistant Статьи редакции... | Размер предполагаемых инвестиций не раскрывается.
Google запустила программу по поддержке разработчиков, которые занимаются созданием сервисов и устройств для голосового ассистента Google Assistant. Об этом компания рассказала в своём блоге... |
| 02.05.2018 | Google Launches New Investment Program for Google Assistant | Google Launches New Investment Program for Google Assistant
Ava Mutchler on May 2, 2018 at 2:49 pm
This afternoon on its company blog, Google announced it has launched a new investment fund for early-stage startups that can help to improve ... |
| 02.02.2018 | Pulse Labs Raises $2.5M in Seed Financing | Pulse Labs, a Seattle, WA-based startup that allows brands to understand how real people interact with their voice apps, raised $2.5m in financing.
The round was led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from the Amazon Alexa Fund, B... |
| 01.02.2018 | Pulse Labs has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to help voice apps better interact with humans | It was a slow build, but between smart speakers, mobile devices and a growing army of connected home products, voice interfaces are poised to continue growing at a rapid clip. In a majority of cases, however, the experience is still extreme... |
| 01.02.2018 | Alexa Fund and Bezos Expeditions join $2.5 million investment in Pulse Labs voice app analysis tool | Pulse Labs today announced the closure of a $2.5 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Amazon’s Alexa Fund, TechStars Ventures, and Bezos Expedition, an investment arm of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
The funding... |
| 01.02.2018 | Pulse Labs raises $2.5M from Madrona, Jeff Bezos, Techstars for voice app testing platform | Pulse Labs’ team, from left to right: Abhishek Suthan, Akansha Mehta, Dylan Zwick. (Photo via Pulse Labs)
As voice-enabled applications continue to proliferate everyday life, developers need a robust user testing platform — and Pulse Labs h... |
| 01.02.2018 | Pulse Labs Grabs $2.5M Seed Round |
SEATTLE, WA, Pulse Labs, a startup that helps brands understand how real people interact with their voice apps, announced $2.5 million in financing today.
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| 01.02.2018 | Pulse Labs raises $2.5 million from Alexa Fund and Bezos Expeditions to improve voice apps interaction with real people | Voice startup, Pulse Labs, announced today it has raised $2.5 million in seed financing to help brands understand how real people interact with their voice app. The current investment is led by Madrona Venture Group, the round included part... |
| 01.02.2018 | Alexa Fund and Bezos Expeditions join $2.5 million investment in Pulse Labs voice app analysis tool | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Pulse Labs today announced the closure of a $2.5 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Amazon’s Alex... |
| 04.10.2017 | Startup Spotlight: Pulse Labs makes it easy for voice developers to test their Alexa apps | Pulse Labs co-founders Dylan Zwick and Abhishek Suthan. (Pulse Photo)
Voice-controlled devices, like the Amazon Echo, are driving what Abhishek Suthan calls a “tectonic shift” in computing — and he wants to take advantage of it. That’s why ... |