Future Ear Radio
147 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -Discussing the business of hearing healthcare and how hearing professionals can succeed in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Guests of the show include experts with backgrounds in Audiology, Public Health, Consumer Audio, and Technology.
The goal of Future Ear Radio is to connect the trends converging around our ears. (FuturEar)
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041 - Brett Bivens & Ryan Kraudel - The Apple Health Blueprint
August 20, 2020 12:56 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBGuests: Brett Bivens, Venture Investor at Tech Nexus; Ryan Kraudel, VP Marketing at Valencell Topic: The Apple Health Blueprint Brett and Ryan join Dave to break down Apple's healthcare ambitions, honing in on what the company is building toward with its Apple Health app. Throughout the discussion, the three chat about: - Apple Health as a broad data repository housing its own data & third party device data - The types of data that can be captured today and will be captured in the ne...
040 - Jason Mayer & Meagan Lewis - Leveraging Remote Audiology Services to Adapt & Thrive
August 06, 2020 13:12 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBGuests: Jason Mayer, VP Commercial Sales at Phonak; Meagan Lewis, Director of Audiology at Wake Forest Baptist Health Topic: Leveraging Remote Audiology Services to Adapt & Thrive Meagan and Jason join Dave this week to chat about the implementation and usage of remote telehealth services in the audiology setting. Meagan shares her own experience of incorporating remote services into her clinic, and provides her perspective around how she believes remote services can be effectively util...
039 - Mark Tucker - Top 5 Takeaways from Alexa Live 2020
July 28, 2020 13:37 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBGuest: Mark Tucker - Alexa Champion & Senior Architect, Voice Technology at Soar.com Topic: Top 5 Takeaways from Alexa Live 2020 Mark joins Dave this week to share the five most exciting developments coming from this year's Alexa Live, which is a virtual event sharing updates about Alexa held for developers, device makers and business leaders within the Alexa ecosystem. Amazon announced a total of 31 upcoming new features for its voice assistant, which Mark tracked meticulously on Twitter...
038 - Bruce Rasa - AgVoice: Voice Tech for the Farm
July 24, 2020 13:03 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBGuest: Bruce Rasa - CEO & CoFounder of AgVoice Topic: AgVoice & Voice Technology for Agriculture and Farming Bruce joins Dave this week to share the story of AgVoice, a voice tech start up based in Atlanta that's aiming to arm our farmers with custom-built voice technology to assist in a range of different agriculture-based jobs. AgVoice works closely with a wide variety of farmers, agriculture workers, and plant scientists to better understand their lexicons and terminology, which they us...
037 - Carl Thomas & Andy Bellavia - "Hearables Aren't the Thing... They're What Give You Access to THE Thing"
July 15, 2020 14:25 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBGuests: Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp; Carl Thomas, Founder of Audiowings & Hearables Expert Topic: "Hearables Aren't the Thing... They're What Give You Access to THE Thing" This episode stems from a 2019 twitter thread from Carl, in which he posited that hearables are a portal to something much larger (riffing off an iconic scene from the AMC TV show, Halt & Catch Fire.) Carl, Andy & Dave go around the horn to share what they think hearables will ultimatel...
036 - Giles Tongue - ChatableApps (feat. Geoff Cooling)
July 01, 2020 15:01 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBGuests: Giles Tongue, CEO of ChatableApps; Geoff Cooling, hearing professional and co-founder of Hearing Aid Know Topic: ChatableApps Giles joins Dave and Geoff for this episode to walk them through everything ChatableApps - from how it works and can empower folks with hearing loss, to the science that goes into the app and ultimately how it fits into the audiologists' suite of services. https://chatableapps.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fu...
035 - Kat Penno & Andy Bellavia - AirPods' Role in Tackling Hearing Loss
June 26, 2020 15:38 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBGuests: Kat Penno - Audiologist & Founder of the Hearing Collective; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: AirPods' Role in Tackling Hearing Loss Dave is joined by Kat and Andy to discuss the new accessibility features coming to AirPods Pro with the new iOS14 update. Included in the features, is the ability to amplify and adjust sounds and frequencies for digital audio (music, podcasts, phone calls, etc), and also amplify ambient sounds while in transparency ...
034 - Life for Private Practice Owners and Audiologist from March - June 2020
June 10, 2020 12:48 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBGuests: Gyl Kasewurm (Professional Hearing Centers - MI), Meagan Lewis (Wake Forest Baptist Health -NC), Ronnie Boling (Brentwood Hearing Center - TN), Sheryl Figliano (Centers for Hearing Care - OH), Judy Huch (Oro Valley Audiology - AZ), and Jason Aird (Iowa Audiology & Hearing Centers - IA) Topic: Life for Private Practice Owners and Audiologists from March-June 2020 Dave interviews six audiologists and business owners across the hearing care industry to discuss what life has been like...
034 - Life for Private Practice Owners and Audiologist from March - June 2020
June 10, 2020 12:48 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBGuests: Gyl Kasewurm (Professional Hearing Centers - MI), Meagan Lewis (Wake Forest Baptist Health -NC), Ronnie Boling (Brentwood Hearing Center - TN), Sheryl Figliano (Centers for Hearing Care - OH), Judy Huch (Oro Valley Audiology - AZ), and Jason Aird (Iowa Audiology & Hearing Centers - IA) Topic: Life for Private Practice Owners and Audiologists from March-June 2020 Dave interviews six audiologists and business owners across the hearing care industry to discuss what life has been like...
033 - Shari Eberts & Matt Hay - Life with Hearing Loss during a Pandemic
May 29, 2020 16:13 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBGuests: Shari Eberts - Hearing Health Advocate, HLAA Board Member, & Founder of LivingWithHearingLoss.com; Matt Hay - Hearing Health Advocate & Director of Audiology Sales at Redux Topic: Life with Hearing Loss during a Pandemic Shari and Matt join Dave to walk through their individual journeys from when they first discovered they had hearing loss to becoming advocates and champions for hearing health. Each share their perspectives on the challenges folks with hearing loss face as mask...
033 - Shari Eberts & Matt Hay - Life with Hearing Loss during a Pandemic
May 29, 2020 16:13 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBGuests: Shari Eberts - Hearing Health Advocate, HLAA Board Member, & Founder of LivingWithHearingLoss.com; Matt Hay - Hearing Health Advocate & Director of Audiology Sales at Redux Topic: Life with Hearing Loss during a Pandemic Shari and Matt join Dave to walk through their individual journeys from when they first discovered they had hearing loss to becoming advocates and champions for hearing health. Each share their perspectives on the challenges folks with hearing loss face as mask...
032 - Wearables as Early Detection Health Systems (Panel)
May 21, 2020 13:35 - 51 minutes - 70.3 MBGuests: Andy Bellavia (Knowles Corp), Chris Economos (PhysIQ), Ryan Kraudel (Valencell) Topic: Building Early Detection Systems with our Wearable Devices to Combat Public Health Crises Dave hosts a panel comprising of Andy, Chris and Ryan to explore the idea of how wearable & biosensor technology can be used to help combat public health crises by serving as early detection systems for irregularities found in individual health data sets. The four talk through today's sensor capabilities, cl...
031 - Kyle Acker - The Appreciating Value of Today's Hearing Aids
May 14, 2020 13:11 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBGuest: Kyle Acker, SVP at RiseENT Topic: The Appreciating Value of Today's Hearings Aids Kyle joins Dave to share his professional journey that led him to RiseENT after spending ten years at Starkey Hearing Technologies. From there, the two discuss how the industry can adapt to the various disruptive forces that it's facing. Finally, the two dive into today's hearing aid technology, and speak to the ways in which the hearing aid value proposition is evolving and how providers can best lev...
030- Jeff Adams - Building Alexa and What Comes Next
May 07, 2020 13:59 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBGuests: Jeff Adams, CEO & Founder of Cobalt Speech and Language Topic: Building Alexa and What Comes Next for Conversational AI Jeff Adams joins Dave for this episode of the podcast, walking Dave through the major hurdles that Jeff's team at Amazon had to solve when they were tasked with bringing Alexa to life. Jeff founded the Alexa Speech Group and led a team of speech & language scientists from 2011 - 2014 at Amazon building the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and natural-lan...
029 - Imrich Valach - Sentien Audio
April 30, 2020 12:54 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBGuests: Imrich Valach, Co-founder & CEO of Sentien Topic: Sentien Audio: All Day Bone-Conduction Hearable Dave sits down with Imrich Valach to discuss the novel and creative approach his team is taking to the whole premise of a hearable, with its all-day, bone-conduction audio device. During this interview, Imrich and Dave chat about the inspiration behind starting the company, why he ultimately settled on bone conduction for the form factor, and how the device can serve as a conduit to ...
028 - Nikolaj Hviid - BragiOS: The Intelligent Hub Connecting a World Full of Sensors (feat. Andy Bellavia)
April 23, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 88.6 MBGuests: Nikolaj Hviid, CEO of Bragi, and Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: BragiOS: The Intelligent Hub Connecting a World Full of Sensors Andy and Dave sit down with Nikolaj Hviid, the CEO of Bragi, to learn the full story of Bragi - how it started, the "proof of concept" hardware phase, and the current phase with BragiOS. Last year, Bragi sold off its hardware business to get back to its roots as a software-based company and shifted the whole company's ...
027 - D'Anne Rudden & Brian Urban - TeleHealth in the Audiology Setting
April 16, 2020 13:08 - 50 minutes - 68.7 MBGuests: D'Anne Rudden, Owner of Longmont Hearing & Tinnitus, and Brian Urban, President and Co-Founder of CounselEAR Topic: TeleHealth in the Audiology Setting Audiologists D'Anne Rudden and Brian Urban join Dave to talk about how TeleHealth is being implemented and adopted within the audiology setting. As a private practice owner, D'Anne shares her own experience of adopting TeleHealth in her practice, while Brian shares how CounselEAR's TeleHealth feature has been adopted by various hear...
026 - Ian Freed - Bamboo Learning
April 08, 2020 13:42 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBGuest: Ian Freed, CEO of Bamboo Learning Topic: 5 Reasons Why Bamboo Learning Fascinates Me Hello and welcome back to Future Ear. The next episode of podcast features Ian Freed, CEO of Bamboo Learning. Throughout this conversation, Dave highlights five reasons why he believes Bamboo Learning is one of the "must watch" companies within the voice industry. Through a combination of deep domain knowledge (Ian led the Alexa team at Amazon when Alexa debuted) and subject matter expertise (co-fo...
026 - Ian Freed - Bamboo Learning
April 08, 2020 13:42 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBGuest: Ian Freed, CEO of Bamboo Learning Topic: 5 Reasons Why Bamboo Learning Fascinates Me Hello and welcome back to Future Ear. The next episode of podcast features Ian Freed, CEO of Bamboo Learning. Throughout this conversation, Dave highlights five reasons why he believes Bamboo Learning is one of the "must watch" companies within the voice industry. Through a combination of deep domain knowledge (Ian led the Alexa team at Amazon when Alexa debuted) and subject matter expertise (co-fo...
025 - Keri Roberts - Takeaways from 100+ Voice Technology Podcast Interviews
March 05, 2020 14:33 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBGuest: Keri Roberts, Brand and Content Strategist and Host of the Inside VOICE podcast Topic: Takeaways from 100+ Voice Technology Podcast Interviews Keri joins Dave to discuss some of her biggest takeaways from the first 100 episodes of the podcast she hosts, Inside VOICE. The two go rapid-fire through a number of her guests, highlighting the main theme of the episode and what resonated most with Keri from the discussion. Keri shares her unique perspective from covering so many different ...
024 - Paul Michaelenko - The Listen App & Social Podcasting
March 03, 2020 14:03 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBGuest: Paul Michaelenko, CEO & Founder of the Listen App Topic: The Listen App & Social Podcasting Paul sits down with Dave to share the vision of the Listen App, a new type of podcast player with an emphasis on social sharing. As the two discuss, podcasting is in need for a social layer that's built natively for the audio medium. Just as we saw Facebook's first attempt at a mobile app fail due to not accommodating for the mobile user interface and size of the device, podcasts exist in an ...
023 - Kevin Liebe - (Hearing Aid) Data is the New Oil
February 27, 2020 14:47 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBGuest: Kevin Liebe, Audiologists and President/CEO of Hearing Health & Technology Matters Topic: Innovations in Hearing Care and (Hearing Aid) Data is the New Oil Kevin Liebe joins Dave to discuss the new column he's launched at HHTM around innovations occurring in the hearing healthcare industry. The two discuss the three interviews that Kevin has conducted so far, going one-by-one to talk through some of the key takeaways from each guest. From there, the two discuss the possible benefit...
022 - Priti Moudgill - Fashionable Hearables
February 25, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBGuest: Priti Moudgill, CEO & Founder of Peripherii Topic: Fashionable Hearables Priti sits down with Dave to share the story behind what led her to start her hearables startup, Peripherii. The two discuss why hearables designed as earrings that are tailored for women is both intriguing and feasible, the rise of "situational" hearables, and the type of universal features that will likely be available for the broad hearable economy over time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaste...
021 - Liz Fuemmeler - Life as a Recent Audiology Graduate
February 20, 2020 15:15 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBGuest: Liz Fuemmeler, Audiologist and Vestibular Specialist at Hearing and Balance KC Topic: Life as a Recent Audiology Graduate Liz joins Dave to share her journey of becoming an Audiologist and landing her first job as an AuD as a Vestibular Specialist at Hearing and Balance KC. During their conversation, Liz shares what life has been like transitioning from grad school into the working world, how she found a job in private practice, what drew her toward becoming a Vestibular specialist,...
020 - Andreas Stegmann - Spotify at the Crossroads
February 18, 2020 13:48 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBGuest: Andreas Stegmann, Product Manager at Chrono24 and Author of the post, "Spotify at the Crossroads" Topic: Spotify at the Crossroads Andy joins Dave to walk through his fantastic Medium post, "Spotify at the Crossroads," where he lays out some of the pitfalls Spotify is facing and how the company might best navigate those challenges. One of the keys, Andy believes, will be for the company to find a way to grow beyond music and into more ambient forms of media. Content Curation, discov...
019 - Mark Truong - Hearing Aid Genius Bars
February 13, 2020 15:33 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBGuest: Mark Truong, Audiology Student and Host of the Hear Me Out Podcast Topic: Hearing Aid Genius Bars Mark joins Dave to share some of his key learnings from the first year of starting his podcast. Mark is a first year student of audiology in Melbourne, Australia, and has taken the initiative to start his own podcast, where he interviews all types of hearing care leaders and experts about a wide variety of audiology-specific topics. Much of the conversation centers around how hearing ...
019 - Mark Truong - Hearing Aid Genius Bars
February 13, 2020 15:33 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBGuest: Mark Truong, Audiology Student and Host of the Hear Me Out Podcast Topic: Hearing Aid Genius Bars Mark joins Dave to share some of his key learnings from the first year of starting his podcast. Mark is a first year student of audiology in Melbourne, Australia, and has taken the initiative to start his own podcast, where he interviews all types of hearing care leaders and experts about a wide variety of audiology-specific topics. Much of the conversation centers around how hearing ...
018 - Project Voice Panel - Emergence of Hearables with Andy Bellavia
February 11, 2020 15:29 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBGuest: Andy Bellavia (Business Development at Knowles Corp) & Bradley Metrock (CEO of Score Publishing and host of Project Voice) Topic: The Emergence of Voice Panel from Project Voice This episode of the podcast is a recording of the, "Emergence of Hearables" panel from Project Voice. Dave and Andy comprise the panel, which was moderated by Bradley. The three discuss a wide range of hearables + voice technology topics, including the recently announced Bluetooth protocol, Bluetooth LE Audi...
017 - Bob Stolzberg - Wise Words from a Voice Pioneer
February 06, 2020 15:25 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBGuest: Bob Stolzberg, CEO & Founder of VoiceXP Topic: Wise Words from a Voice Pioneer Bob Stolzberg joins Dave to share some of the key things he's learned across the first three years that Bob has been building voice experiences. Bob's company, VoiceXP, provides a do-it-yourself platform that allows anyone to easily create voice experiences for Alexa or Google Assistant on their own - as Bob refers to it, it's the "Wix/Squarespace of Voice." One of the key learnings that Bob shares is th...
016 - Carl Thomas - Hearables-as-a-Platform
February 04, 2020 14:02 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBGuest: Carl Thomas, Founder of Audiowings & Longtime Hearables Enthusiast Topic: Hearables-as-a-Platform Carl joins Dave to discuss a wide range of hearables-specific topics. The two begin with some of the key learnings that Carl has had from his time knowing Nick Hunn, the wireless analyst who coined the term, "hearables." Chief among those learnings was the idea of hearables-as-a-platform, and the type of ongoing experience that these products can provide, beyond the hardware. For exam...
015 - Brielle Nickoloff - Toolsets for Voice Creators
January 30, 2020 14:52 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBGuest: Brielle Nickoloff, Product Marketing Lead, Witlingo Topic: Toolsets for Voice Creators Brielle joins Dave to talk about Witlingo and the toolsets that they're building off to arm voice creators and help them make content production and distribution easier. For example, Witlingo's platform allows for non-technical people, such as Dave, to quickly publish and disseminate his flash briefing to Alexa and Google Assistant in a matter of minutes. The two talk about how each phase of compu...
014 - Brett Bivens - Spotify's Pursuit of the "Audio Day" Opportunity
January 28, 2020 15:18 - 24 minutes - 34 MBGuest: Brett Bivens, Venture Capitalist at TechNexus Topic: Spotify's Pursuit of the Growing "Audio Day" Opportunity Dave and Brett explore Spotify's pursuit to be more than just a music streaming company, with podcasting being the first step toward all kinds of new, more profitable ambient media services. The conversation largely revolves around Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's question of whether our eyes should really be worth 10X more than our ears. The two discuss why Spotify is unique relat...
013 - Dave Copithorne - Recapping Starkey's 2020 Expo
January 23, 2020 14:30 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBGuest: Dave Copithorne - Director of Content at Hearing Tracker Topic: Recapping Starkey's 2020 Expo Dave C walks Dave K through the four day Starkey Expo held in Las Vegas this past week, highlighting some of the key themes, product developments and general takeaways from the expo held by the American hearing aid manufacturer. The two begin by discussing Starkey's flagship hearing aid, LivioAI, and how Starkey is doubling down on the efforts to transform the hearing aid into a preventati...
012 - Anna Pugh - The Audiology Long Game
January 21, 2020 14:36 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBGuest: Anna Pugh - Longtime Audiologist, BSHAA Council Member, and Owner of Hearing Therapy Online Topic: The Audiology Long Game Anna and Dave chat about the, "Audiology Long Game," and how the hearing care professional can flourish in these changing times. The conversation spans a whole host of topics, including the state of the hearing care landscape in the UK, why hearing aid adoption rates are similar in the UK as the US (even though hearing aids are free in the UK through the NHS), a...
011 - Nick White - OrbitaAssist & Voice Applications for Healthcare
January 13, 2020 16:23 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBGuest: Nick White, EVP of Patient Care Solutions at Orbita Topic: OrbitaASSIST & Voice Applications for Healthcare Dave and Nick talk about some of the ways that Orbita is pioneering and implementing voice technology into the healthcare setting. As a leader in the Voice + healthcare space, Orbita is at the forefront of what's becoming possible as voice is transfused into a wide variety of medical settings. One area that Orbita is particularly interested in is at the patient's bedside in ...
010 - Ryan Kraudel - Biometric Sensors + Hearables
January 06, 2020 14:56 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MBGuest: Ryan Kraudel, VP Marketing - Valencell Topic: Biometric Sensors + Hearables Dave brings Ryan Kraudel on to talk about the type of biometric sensors that Valencell manufacturers and the various devices that these sensors are being embedded into. Valencell makes optical-based, PPG (photoplethysmogram) sensors that are capable of capturing and measuring a wide-range of biometric health data points. If you've ever seen the green blinking light on the underside of an Apple Watch, that's ...
010 - Ryan Kraudel - Biometric Sensors + Hearables
January 06, 2020 14:56 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MBGuest: Ryan Kraudel, VP Marketing - Valencell Topic: Biometric Sensors + Hearables Dave brings Ryan Kraudel on to talk about the type of biometric sensors that Valencell manufacturers and the various devices that these sensors are being embedded into. Valencell makes optical-based, PPG (photoplethysmogram) sensors that are capable of capturing and measuring a wide-range of biometric health data points. If you've ever seen the green blinking light on the underside of an Apple Watch, that's ...
009 - Tim McElreath - Food Network Kitchen
December 19, 2019 15:51 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBGuest: Tim McElreath, Director of Technology - Mobile & Emerging Technologies at Discovery Topic: Food Network Kitchen Dave and Tim discuss the recently launched application from Discovery, Food Network Kitchen. This new, interactive application is available on mobile devices, and specifically designed with Amazon's Fire TV and Echo Show smart displays in mind. The service includes a library of thousands of recipes, step-by-step on demand videos for many of the recipes, and 4-6 live-cookin...
008 - Scot & Susan Westwater - Pragmatic Voice Strategies
December 17, 2019 15:33 - 21 minutes - 30 MBGuests: Scot & Susan Westwater Topic: Pragmatic Voice Strategies Dave chats with Scot and Susan Westwater about their two-person digital consultancy, Pragmatic Digital, and their new book, Voice Strategy: Creating Useful & Usable Voice Experiences. Pragmatic Digital was created to help meet the growing demand that companies of all sizes need help getting started with a voice strategy. Scot and Susan take a pragmatic approach with voice, based on their long tenures in agencies and digital...
007 - Hunter McKinley - Apps for an AirPods-Oriented World
December 12, 2019 15:29 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBGuest: Hunter McKinley, CMO - YAC Chat Topic: Apps for an AirPods-Oriented World Dave and Hunter discuss YAC (Yelling Across Cubicles) and the apps they're building around two major trends: remote work and the emergence of AirPods (and other hearables). One of the apps that the YAC team has built is called BRB, which allows for 30 second voice messages to be relayed back and forth. BRB is designed with remote teams in mind, making it a hybrid of a walkie talkie and Slack. The two discuss...
006 - Geoff Cooling - A Tsunami of Change Heading for Hearing Healthcare
December 10, 2019 11:54 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBGuest: Geoff Cooling, Hearing Aid Know Topic: A Tsunami of Change Heading for Hearing Healthcare Dave and Geoff talk about why we're poised to see more change in the hearing aid industry across the next 5 years compared to the past 50 years. The reason? A confluence of trends. The devices are transforming into hearables - ear-worn computers - which are giving rise to new use cases, allowing for the devices to perform far more tasks. In addition, new legislation like the over-the-counter he...
005 - Bradley Metrock - Project Voice
December 05, 2019 15:00 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBGuest: Bradley Metrock, CEO Score Publishing & VoiceFirst Events Topic: Project Voice Dave and Bradley talk about the genesis of Project Voice (formerly named the Alexa conference), how the conference has evolved, the growing voice enthusiast community that Bradley has helped to cultivate and what to expect at this year's Project Voice. Along with the conference, Bradley also shares his take on whether we're in the midst of a, "trough of disillusionment," with voice technology. --- Se...
004 - Andy Bellavia - VoiceFirst Hearables Use Cases
December 03, 2019 15:02 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBGuest: Andy Bellavia Topic: VoiceFirst Hearables Use Cases After discussing the evolving hearables landscape in part one, Andy and Dave now move into some of the new use cases that voice-assistant enabled hearables will begin to offer. One area that seems ripe for some innovation is around audio content consumption and the ways in which we access said content. Perhaps this combination will offer new ways to curate and discover audio content specific to the user's interests. GPS-based app...
003 - Andy Bellavia - Hearables Ubiquity
November 26, 2019 15:14 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBGuest: Andy Bellavia Topic: Hearables Ubiquity Andy and Dave provide a rundown of the recent movement that's occurred in the hearables space with the slew of new products being entering the market or due to enter the market soon. We'll soon have AirPods Pro, Beats Powerbeats Pro, Echo Buds, Galaxy Buds, Pixel Buds 2.0 and Surface Buds (maybe) all available on the market. The era of hearables has officially arrived, and Andy and Dave reflect back on this journey to 2020 and the challenges t...
003 - Andy Bellavia - Hearables Ubiquity
November 26, 2019 15:14 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBGuest: Andy Bellavia Topic: Hearables Ubiquity Andy and Dave provide a rundown of the recent movement that's occurred in the hearables space with the slew of new products being entering the market or due to enter the market soon. We'll soon have AirPods Pro, Beats Powerbeats Pro, Echo Buds, Galaxy Buds, Pixel Buds 2.0 and Surface Buds (maybe) all available on the market. The era of hearables has officially arrived, and Andy and Dave reflect back on this journey to 2020 and the challenges t...
002 - Katherine Prescott - Multimodal Use Cases
November 21, 2019 16:09 - 16 minutes - 23 MBGuest: Katherine Prescott - Founder & Editor of Voicebrew Topic: Multimodal Smart Speaker Growth Building off their discussion in the previous episode, Katherine and Dave now begin to explore some of the unique use cases that multimodal smart speakers are enabling. They chat about The Food Network Kitchen, an on-demand service that will be deeply integrated into Alexa and really illustrate the evolution of smart speaker devices, as well as other unique use cases specific to multi-modal sma...
001 - Katherine Prescott - The Multimodal Growth Story
November 20, 2019 15:11 - 13 minutes - 17.9 MBGuest: Katherine Prescott - Founder & Editor of Voicebrew Topic: Multimodal Smart Speaker Growth Katherine and Dave highlight the recent Canalys report which stated that smart display shipment share crossed 20% of all devices shipped. The two discuss what it means now that the era of multimodal Voice First devices is officially here. Follow Katherine on Twitter: @kbprescott --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/futureear/message