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It's always useful to keep a close eye on some of the more advanced companies and cultures on the planet to get an idea of what might be coming our way. The Nordics, for example, is a great area to observe closely because the societies there have been
I recently wrote about the fantastic voice to text capabilities of Play.ht. One of the company's recent offerings (Play.ai) expands this capability to introduce a Conversational Voice AI agent capability. Their introductory post cites this mission: Our mission is to build a universal Voice Interface that
Plump.ai is a virtual assistant to keep your job search active 24/7 without having to do anything. I can imagine quite a lot of candidates thinking, 'Absolutely brilliant'. Here's how the company describes its offering: Plump takes care of search, application, communication and management
Have you been following Bland.ai? They've just announced $16M in funding after emerging from stealth – bringing their total raise to $22M. Here's the first paragraph from their release: Today Bland AI, the platform automating phone calls for the enterprise using hyper-realistic AI agents, emerged from
I've been meaning to make sure I wrote about what the team at Play.ht have been creating. The company offers AI Text to Speech, AI Voice Cloning and a Voice Generation API – and I have to say, the demos I've tried are really, really good.
Back in June the team from Anthrophic posted an update previewing the introduction of 'Artifacts' as a new way to use Claude. As a premium user I've been seeing these appear and I've been finding them very helpful as I've been working
I'm a premium subscriber to ChatGPT. I have been for quite a while. It's been my default. I also use Pi on my phone, along with Perplexity. Claude too. Oh, and I'm a Copilot subscriber on my family Microsoft account (I couldn't
Following my post earlier this week on the topic of creating Vendor Beauty Parades, I have just updated the 18-page PDF guide that I routinely share with clients. I thought you might be interested to browse through it. Please feel free to share with colleagues. A brief overview: What is
When I'm advising clients in the Conversational AI space, I'm often challenged by executives to give them tangible, meaningful benefits that others have managed to achieve. Often, I talk about FTE redeployment opportunities – that is a key metric that many executives respond to positively. It'
LivePerson's podcast has just finished Season 2 with an episode featuring their CEO, John Sabino. I find John a highly engaging personality – he comes across very well on the company's podcast – and I think he'll be speaking to many executives when he uses the
I came across this post from the team at The CAI Company recently and thought it was worthwhile highlighting. Testing is business-critical when it comes to Conversational AI. I think we all know this. How to test... that's a key question and one that I've been
If you're thinking about making a move into the Conversational AI space – or, you're already running older generation 'decision tree' chatbots – and you'd like to get an idea of what's possible in today's world, I strongly recommend arranging