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The Sound of the Future

The Coming Age of Voice Technology

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The Sound of the Future

By: Tobias Dengel, Karl Weber
Narrated by: Graham Winton
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 Why voice technology is the next big thing in technology, as big as mobile a decade ago and the internet in the late 90s, fundamentally altering the way companies do business.

Voice is the next technology – remarkably similar in potential impact to the internet and mobile computing - poised to change the way the world works. Tobias Dengel is in the vanguard of this breakthrough, understanding the deep, wide-ranging implications voice will have for every industry. In The Sound of the Future, he connects the dots about this emerging paradigm to vividly illustrate how business leaders can stay ahead of the game, rather than scrambling to catch up, as voice technology gradually reveals its power, creating a host of new winners and losers.

Using fascinating, colorful stories, Dengel explains how the “voice-first” experience is becoming part of the global technology mainstream, exploring the ways voice will do a better job of serving basic human needs such as safety, speed, accuracy, convenience, and fun, as well as making it possible for hundreds of millions of people around the planet to participate more fully and productively in today’s high-tech world by making interactions with technology virtually effortless.

A pervasive technology like the internet and mobile, voice, with applications in marketing, sales, service, manufacturing, and logistics, will change the way we work at every level and every function, driving down costs, boosting productivity, and enabling the creation of entirely new business models.

This is not simply about Siri and Alexa. They are the tantalizing but incomplete precursors of the ultimate interface that will make technology easier, faster, more accurate, and more human. Computer Science Engineering Forecasting & Strategic Planning Leadership Machine Theory & Artificial Intelligence Management & Leadership Business Technology Management

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“The author does a good job of explaining where [voice technology] is going…From a solid base of experience, Dengel charts the way forward for the next technological shift.”—Kirkus
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How disappointing. This book was filled with countless disingenuous examples trying to support the points the author was making when really a single example would have sufficed as most of his points were either very basic and obvious or hardly imformative. Overall the concept of the book works but it is poorly executed and you would be better off reading a few blog posts to get the same info. The book could be summed up as; voice interfaces are coming, especially for input. AI models are rapidly improving and will be ready for mainstream very soon. There are lots of old examples of useful voice interfaces that you haven't heard of so here are 100s of them repeated several times.

A book that could have and should been a power point deck or a couple of 1 hour podcasts.

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