Episode 105 - What's New From Alexa Live 2022

In this episode, Allen Firstenberg is joined by guest host Cecilia Abadie, a computing pioneer who has been at the forefront of every major tech wave—from personal computers to mobile, wearables, and now AI. They look back on their shared roots at the 2012 Google Glass Foundry, t ...  Show more

Happy 6th Anniversary to Two Voice Devs! In this milestone episode, Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg look back at six years of podcasting and discuss how the industry is coming full circle. We started in the era of hardware assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant, shifted int ...  Show more

On Wednesday, Amazon hosted Alexa Live, its Alexa developer conference. That meant a bunch of new announcements for new developer tools that could change the way Alexa is used by everyone. 

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

Amazon’s hardware event gives us more Alexa in just about anything you can think of, Oculus has some news on the VR front, the 2020 iPhones might echo the iPhone 4 design, and those dog like robots from Boston Dynamics are finally leaving the lab, but to adopt one, you need to th ...  Show more

Stories this week: Amazon pushes Alexa privacy with new delete optionsAmazon’s new Echo Studio sounds like the future of smart speakersThe top 8 Echo products Amazon announced todayHere are all of the other new Echo and Ring products announced todayAmazon announces third-generati ...  Show more