The Future of Voice: Clay @ Big Human

This was a talk I gave at Big Human (www.bighuman.com) about where we think the Future of Voice (Alexa, Siri, Google Home) may be heading at Clay. Clay is a platform that helps creating and sharing microservices and we think voice is one interesting place that these microservices will be used!

Transcript

1. The Future of Voice Big Human Feb 2017
2. Big Human
3. Howdy! Kareem Amin @KareemAmin Nicolae Rusan @NicolaeRusan Clay @RunClay
4. The Arrival of Voice
5. Growth & Adoption
6. Growth & Adoption
7. Looking Back to Mobile for Analogies TechCrunch 2012
8. • Passive, Always On Listening • Natural interface that’s tough to recall • Hands free • Easy to Install • Screenless Interactions • Embedded into Anything that has a Computer Unique Characteristics of Voice Apps
9. Challenges Today • Discoverability of Interface. Clumsy Input. Question & Answers. • Discoverability of Skills • Voice Alone is Problematic • No Easy Way to Monetize • Lack of Interesting Applications
10. MOBILE VOICE Voice Apps?
12. What will be the first ‘killer app’ for voice?
13. This is just the beginning.
14. What’s Next? • Beyond Screens. Multi-modal Experiences • Voice in Everything • Calling & VOIP • Improved Conversation & AI • Discovery Solved Through: Passiveness, Conversation & Context
17. Alexa Voice Service
18. Everything that can have a computer in it - will have a computer in it ... … and you’ll be able to talk to it.
19. Where Voice Makes Sense
20. At Home
21. Kids & Seniors Voice interfaces is natural & familiar if done right.
22. Cars. Hands-free Interfaces.
23. Robots Hey! ... Good Day Pepper!
24. VOIP Calls & Conversations • Voice Over Internet Calls • Alexa as 3rd Party in Conversations
25. Richer Cards In Conversations & Elsewhere • Appear in your conversations • Go beyond voice when needed - voice as a 3rd person in your conversations, assisting & kicking things off Voice to kick off interactions in calls
26. Amazon is Going After the Telecos
27. Who Do We Talk To?
28. Talk to Friends & Family
29. Talk to New People Dating
30. Talk to Coworkers, Partners Business & Jobs
31. Talk to Coworkers, Partners Business & Jobs
32. Talk to Experts
33. Designing & Coding for Multi-Modal Interfaces
34. Whole30 Demo
35. What Really Goes Into Building a Voice Skill Returns a JSON Object
36. Join our Gitter. Let us know how we can help Follow Ups Build or use a microservice using Clay
37. http://clay.run @runclay @clay-labs
38. Thanks!