E42: Amazon Alexa's Dr. Raf Fatani on why tec...

Huda Al-Lawati is a veteran private equity professional across emerging markets having had executive roles at companies like Gateway Partners, Savola and Abraaj. Huda has recently launched Aliph Capital, a private equity fund that focuses on the mid market segment.  I sat down wi ...  Show more

When Hassan Sawaf started working on machine learning in the 90s in Germany, no one thought advancements in AI would bring us to where we are today. Not even Hassan himself! In fact, people thought the AI field was too 'theoretical'. In this conversation, Hassan talks to us about ...  Show more

Dr Raf Fatani, Amazon General Regional Manager, Alexa, MENA. He grew up and studied in the UK and later moved to the UAE, when Amazon acquired souq.com in 2017. Amazon utilized 18,000 beta testers in Saudi to teach Alexa to understand and speak Arabic from different regions and w ...  Show more

Welcome to Real Arabic, your key to learning spoken Levantine Arabic in an engaging, interesting way. This is an introduction to the podcast. For more information, and for podcast transcripts visit our website: https://realarabic.weebly.com You can support these podcasts by donat ...  Show more

Alexa was due for an upgrade, and now it has gotten one. This week, Amazon held its annual media event where it debuted a slate of new hardware, software, and services. The company reserved the spot at center stage for Alexa, the voice assistant powering all of Amazon’s smart hom ...  Show more

هل من الممكن أن ننسى التكلم باللغة العربية بعد أن هاجرنا إلى بلاد الغربة؟ و في حالتنا بالخاصة، هل كنا نعرف كيف نتكلم باللغة العربية أصلاً؟ المتحدثون في هذه الحلقة: سداد، رضا، لانا، عمر و هاشم. Is it possible to forget how to speak in Arabic when you move abroad? And in our case i ...  Show more