Ultimate Guide to Voice Assistants
Curation of startups, resources, people, posts etc in the voice-space
This is my first guide posted on GitHub, bear with me. You can submit a pull request with anything else you think should be added here.
Image credit — CNET: Kids try to stump Alexa
It will come as no surprise to those of you reading this (thanks!), that the interest and applications of ‘Voice-Assistants’ is growing rapidly. Amazon Alexa recently hit 10,000 skills and there is talk around what will drive adoption for the next 10,000. I wont be diving into specifics and discussing issues like retention. That is not what this post is about.
There are lots of resources & tools, tons of cool products, frameworks, articles and people out there to help you learn about the landscape.
💫 Here are some that I find particularly useful 💫
"2017 will be a defining moment for voice. Voice-first devices shipped by year:
2015: 1.7 million,
2016: 6.6 million,
2017: 24.5 million"
The 2017 Voice Report
by VoiceLabs
🤔 How To Use This
I’m thinking of starting one too —if you’re interested, sign up!
😊 !
Enjoy 🚀 I’ve added a little note about an experiment I’m working on at the end of this post.
A community helping facilitate connections to;
- Get a skill made/make skills for people/companies
- Find investors active in the field
- Intros to other active enthusiasts
- Bounce ideas around with others
- Advice & mentorship from experienced individuals
- Resources and tools to help you build
- Discover interesting products and companies
📰 News
🗞 Newsletters
The Official Amazon Alexa Developer Newsletter
(General Google news + Google Home. Subscribe at bottom of their page)
🖥 Websites/Sources
VentureBeat - Voice Assistants
📜 General news in space (not Voice specific)
Messaging Weekly — curated by the Smooch team
Chatbots Weekly — Curated by Omar Pera and the Reply.ai team
🍜 Startups
🗣 Platforms
👔 Companies
☁️ Cloud Services
🛠 Build
- SDKs & Frameworks
- Extras
This post by Brian Donohue is a great place to get started: Build your first Alexa skill
How to Build your First Amazon Alexa Skill (eBook) by Rocket Insights
Build an Alexa Skill in 7 Minutes Flat with Node.js and StdLib
💼 Agencies
[Solstice](http://www.solstice.com/alexa?utm_source=Amazon Alexa Partner Page&utm_campaign=Amazon Alexa Partner Page)
Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation
📈 Analytics
🎙 Products
Alexa Skills Store App on iOS and Android
🤖 Hardware
🤑 Fundraising
Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars
Betaworks — Get Support from the Alexa Team at Betaworks’Voicecamp
💵 Alexa Fund (All the companies announced)
👥 People & Posts
M.G. Siegler — General Partner GV. On Twitter
Matt Hartman- partner at betaworks + runs Hearing Voices Newsletter. On Twitter
Sarah Guo— people-first investor Greylock Partners. On Twitter
Sarah Perez— Reporter at TechCrunch. On Twitter
Patrick Montague— vp at betaworks. On Twitter
Owen Williams— Freelance writer + developer. On Twitter
Shane Mac— CEO Assist. On Twitter
Hugh Durkin— Senior Product Manager, Intercom.On Twitter
Aaron Batalion— Partner,Lightspeed. On Twitter
Johna Paolino— UX / product design General Assembly. On Twitter
Adam Marchick— Trying to build a better company, every day @VoiceLabsCo and Kahuna.
Alexandre Linares— Co-Founder @VoiceLabsCo / EIR @ The Chernin Group. On Twitter
Oren Jacob— CEO and CoFounder, PullString. Prev, Pixar. On Twitter
Brian Roemmele — Founder + Editor at Multiplex. On Twitter
Chris Messina— Invented the hashtag; X Uber; Xoogler. On Twitter
Cathy Pearl— Director of User Experience @Sense_ly. Author of the O’Reilly book Designing Voice User Interfaces. On Twitter
Trip ODell— Strategically-oriented product design leader @Amazon. On Twitter
David Beisel— Co-founder & Partner at NextView Ventures. On Twitter
Nithya Thadani — CEO of Rain
Dave Balter—I’m an Innovation-Obsessed Founder at Mylestone. On Twitter
Jeremy Liew— Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. On Twitter
Dag Kittlaus— Co-Founder/CEO Siri & Viv Labs. On Twitter
🚀 I am working on an experiment-
A community helping facilitate connections to;
- Get a skill made/make skills for people/companies
- Find investors active in the field
- Intros to other active enthusiasts
- Bounce ideas around with others
- Advice & mentorship from experienced individuals
- Resources and tools to help you build
- Discover interesting products and companies
👉 Feel free to follow and reach out on Twitter
🙏 Thanks to everyone who looked at this draft very early on! And perhaps I’ll see you all in the newsletter or Build Voices 😉
Side Note:
I have ‘borrowed’ this template from The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning & ArtificialIntelligence which is an awesome post & newsletter I use to learn about Machine Learning. Thanks Sam DeBrule
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