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The Voicing Startups Podcast exists to bring awareness to different companies and creators that are shaking up, redefining and reinventing industries through audio, voice or other conversational technology. The world of voice and conversational tech is still in its early days in terms of mass market adoption. My hope is that through conversations with creators and entrepreneurs who are paving the way for where the industry will ultimately go we can help bring more awareness to voice as a whole for general culture, other entrepreneurs, and investors alike.
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The Voicing Startups Podcast exists to bring awareness to different companies and creators that are shaking up, redefining and reinventing industries through audio, voice or other conversational technology. The world of voice and conversational tech is still in its early days in terms of mass market adoption. My hope is that through conversations with creators and entrepreneurs who are paving the way for where the industry will ultimately go we can help bring more awareness to voice as a whole for general culture, other entrepreneurs, and investors alike.
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Overview This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Hugh, Co-Founder and CEO of Whispr. Whispr is a platform that is designed to deliver better information to workers and real-time data to managers so you can constantly improve frontline operations through the use of a voice-first experience. Interview To start off the interview, Hugh and I talk about his background and the origin story for Whispr. To better understand the product we then jump into a walkthrough of the user experience for both management and the front line workers. We also discuss use cases, multi-modal experiences, COVID-19 and COVID-Clean, analytics, differentiation and more. I hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Voicing Startups! Follow Check below for the best places to follow Whispr and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Whispr: Website: Whispr.ai Linkedin: @Whispr Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
Overview This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Jay, Founder and CEO of Roby. Roby is not just another ticketing software. Roby is able to automate your repetitive tasks such as employees’ questions, meeting scheduling, building services and facility requests through conversational AI. This allows you to focus on what really matters - creating an amazing working environment! Interview To start off the interview, Jay talks about his background and how he came up with the idea for Roby. We then spend a little time around the customer and then jump right into conversation around the product. We dig through multiple different use cases and discuss the benefits that Roby provides for both employers and employees. We also talk about the business model amidst COVID-19, Roby’s differentiation, voice experience customization and what we can expect to see from the product in the coming years. I hope you enjoy this weeks episode of Voicing Startups! Follow Check below for the best places to follow Roby and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Roby: Website: tellroby.com Linkedin: @Roby Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
Overview This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Pat, Founder and CEO of Espressive. Espressive redefines how employees get help by delivering exceptional employee experiences. This is accomplished through Barista, Espressive’s Virtual Support Agent (VSA), which brings the ease of consumer virtual assistants, like Alexa or Google Home, into the workplace. Recently, Espressive announced a $30M Series B investment round led by Insight Partners. Interview To start out the interview, we look at Pat’s background and ultimately how he came up with the idea for Espressive and the Barista VSA. Pat then goes on to describe what exactly a VSA is. Following this we start looking at Espressive’s Barista VSA and the problems they are trying to solve for their customers. To better understand these problems, Pat walks me through some different use cases across multiple industries including IT, HR, and Sales. As I mentioned, Espressive just closed a $30M Series B from Insight Partners, so we spent the rest of the interview discussing the plans with the raise amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Follow Check below for the best places to follow Espressive and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Espressive: Website: Espressive.com Linkedin: Espressive Twitter: Espressive_AI Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
Overview This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with James, Co-Founder of HereAfter. HereAfter has pioneered a new way to save and share your loved ones most important stories and memories. Once stories are collected in an interview, the responses are available via an interactive voice experience through the use of the HereAfter AI platform. Interview To start out the interview, we talk about James' background. Before starting HereAfter, he wrote the popular book around voice computing called Talk To Me . We then dig into what exactly HereAfter is and the origin for why James started this in the first place. To better understand the experience, James then walks me through all the different features of the product today. We then spend some time looking ahead and the possibilities for where an experience like this can go. To wrap up the show James gives his outlook on why he is excited about the years ahead for the world of audio and voice tech. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Follow Check below for the best places to follow HereAfter and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow HereAfter: Website: HereAfter.ai Twitter: @JameVlahos Book: Talk to Me Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
Overview This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Sahil, Co-Founder & Product Lead at Soundskrit. Soundskrit is developing bio inspired directional MEMS microphones with a goal of improving audio capture in consumer devices. With a single microphone, they can separate sounds coming from multiple directions without compromising size or quality. Soundskrit is positioned to greatly improve speech recognition and sound localization, enabling a new suite of features for consumer electronics. Interview We start off the interview with getting an idea of Sahil’s background and the general concept of Soundskrit. We then jump right into a conversation about the product. To understand what they are building at Soundskrit, we look at underlying problems with existing microphones, their unique feature set, and some use cases in the real world. We wrap up the interview by looking at the years ahead. We discuss what we can expect to see with the Soundskrit product as well as exciting things about the audio, voice and conversational tech space. I hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Voicing Startups! Follow Check below for the best places to follow Soundskrit and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Soundskrit: Website: Soundskrit.ca Youtube: Soundskrit Linkedin: Soundskrit Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Will, Founder and CSO at SpokenLayer. SpokenLayer is the leader in short-form audio production, distribution, and monetization for both media and brands. One thing I love that makes them unique is their distribution. They distribute everywhere people are listening including Spotify, iTunes, Alexa, Google Assistant and more! Will has a clear passion for short form audio and it shows in our conversation. To start off our interview Will gives us his background as well as the origin story of how he ultimately started SpokenLayer. Following the intro we jump right into talking about the actual product. We discuss many different use cases as well topics around audio content. Some of the topics we touch on include short form vs long form audio, distribution, monetization, and audio content amid the COVID-19 pandemic. To wrap up the interview we discuss future scenarios for both SpokenLayer as well as the audio and voice space. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow SpokenLayer and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow SpokenLayer: Website: SpokenLayer.com Twitter: @SpokenLayer Email: info@spokenlayer.com Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Roy, Founder and CEO of Hi Auto. Hi Auto develops software that enables speech enhancement and speaker separation that focuses solely on the person speaking while eliminating challenging background noises. This is done through the use of a camera, which tracks lip movements and a single microphone. While Hi Auto works well with many audio only inputs, the combination of audio and video is where they really shine. To start off this episode we discuss Roy’s background, the origin story of Hi Auto and what exactly Hi Auto is doing today. To transition into our product discussion, Roy touches on the key value proposition of Hi Auto around Speech Enhancement and Speaker Separation. We then discuss how Hi Auto actually works through the use of video and audio. Following the mechanics, we discuss the popular use cases that Roy is seeing with the business today and how he sees the business as unique in the long term. To wrap up our discussion, we talk about where the product will go over the next few years and why Roy is bullish on the audio and voice space. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow Hi Auto and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Hi Auto: Website: Hi.Auto Linkedin: @Hi Auto Email Roy: Roy@Hi.Auto Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Otto, Co-Founder and CEO of Speechly. Speechly is helping developers build next generation voice user interfaces. What makes them unique from offerings by incumbents like Google or Amazon is their Speech-to-intent spoken language understanding API. This API allows developers to build real-time, multi-modal interfaces for complex natural language enabled tasks for both consumer and enterprise applications alike. To start off this episode, we talk about Otto's extensive background in both software and business. We then dig into how himself and some university friends came up with the idea for Speechly and how they ultimately started the business. This leads into us discussing the actual business model and target market for Speechly. The core piece of our interview focuses on the Speechly product itself. We discuss what makes this product unique, primarily how things like real-time speech-to-intent understanding and multi-modal are so important with voice user interfaces. To wrap up the show we look into the years ahead for both the Speechly product and the world of voice. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow Speechly and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Speechly: Website: Speechly.com Github: github.com/speechly Twitter: @SpeechlyAPI Linkedin: @Speechly Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Josh, CPO of what3words. what3words is a simple way to talk about location. The what3words team has made the entire world a grid of 3 meter squares that each have a unique 3 word address that will never change. For example, ///filled.count.soap marks the exact entrance to what3words’ London headquarters. The benefit is that 3 word addresses are easy to say and share, and are as accurate as GPS coordinates. People are using what3words for everything from finding a tent at a festival to properly directing emergency services. To start off this episode, Josh gives his background and the origin story of how what3words became a business. We then dive right into the product, the main problem it solves, and the key value proposition. what3words is further on in their journey than most of the other companies I have had on this show, so we spend time talking about the company history and how they got to where they are today. To wrap up the show, we chat about where we can expect to see the business go in the years ahead. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow what3words and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow what3words: Website: what3words.com Devs: developer.what3words.com Twitter: @what3words Linkedin: @what3words IG: @what3words Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Bruce, Co-Founder and CEO of AgVoice. AgVoice is designed for use across the food and agriculture ecosystem, including livestock and crop production, agronomy, animal health and wellness, and machinery repair. By using proprietary analytics and conversational AI, users can improve productivity and workflow management, increase documentation accuracy, and gain valuable insights to optimize the use of resources in crop and animal production. Ultimately this results in more sustainable farm practices as well as more efficient, traceable and accurate reporting from professionals and producers. In this interview, we start with the general background of AgVoice and how Bruce and his team saw the opportunity for this product. Before diving deeper on the product itself, we look at the business model and who this product is for. We then took a look at a few different use cases of AgVoice. To back up the use cases, Bruce walks me through some customer success stories as well. To wrap up the discussion we look into the future. We discuss both where Bruce sees AgVoice going in the years ahead and what gets him excited about the world of voice. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow AgVoice and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow VoicePunch Website: AgVoiceGlobal.com Twitter: @AgVoiceGlobal Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week’s episode of the Voicing Startups podcast is a bit different. Usually I am interviewing different startups in the audio and voice space, but today I am talking with Marc Ladin, General Partner at VoicePunch. VoicePunch is an early stage venture capital fund that has a thematic focus on audio and voice tech. The fund has been actively investing since January of 2019 and is in the process of raising our next fund. I joined the VoicePunch team about a year ago, and I believe Marc and I working together resulted in us having a really good interview and reflection of a year in voice tech investing. To start off this interview we talk about Marc's background as a tech entrepreneur, how he got into early stage investing, and ultimately why he decided to focus on audio and voice tech. This focus led to VoicePunch and their Beta fund in 2019 which we dig into next. We discuss the evolution of VoicePunch’s strategy, the investments made and why, and some other general takeaways. This discussion led to 2020 and the years ahead. In 2020 VoicePunch is in the process of raising Fund 1, also focused on early stage investing in audio and voice tech. To wrap up the interview we talk about Marc’s outlook on the next decade ahead in the space. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow VoicePunch and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow VoicePunch Website: VoicePunch.vc Twitter: @VoicePunchVC Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Sandra, Head of Project Management at Wunder. Wunder is the first all-in-one parenting assistant that uses voice technology and A.I. to give new parents the right information at the right time and improve the child’s language and cognitive development. Through the use of a baby monitor and mobile app, Wunder helps parents thoughtfully navigate the first 1000 days of life and raise happy, healthy, curious and all-around good children. To start off the interview, Sandra gives a background of herself and how she became the first hire at Wunder. We then dig into the business side of Wunder including the target market and key value proposition of the business. For the remainder of the interview, we dig into the product itself and how they believe they can make a big impact in the lives of both parents and their children alike. To wrap up this episode, Sandra gives her outlook on the voice space and what gets her excited in the years ahead. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow Wunder and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Wunder: Website: hellowunder.com Facebook: Hello Wunder Twitter: Wunder_App Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Ricardo, Founder and CEO of VOIQ. VOIQ creates conversational Voicebots that empower companies to use human-like AI Voicebots for highly personalized inbound and outbound calls. This provides a great option for starting and continuing conversations with leads or customers in an automated way. Also worth noting, VOIQ is backed by the popular startup accelerator Y Combinator. To kick off the interview, Ricardo talks through his background and why he ultimately decided to start VOIQ. Following this background, we spend some time discussing questions around the business including things like the business model and target market. For the bulk of the interview, we focused on the actual VOIQ product. In this discussion, Ricardo walks through many different use cases and customer success stories that help to explain the value proposition of using Voicebots like VOIQ offers. To wrap up the show, Ricardo gave us his outlook on both his company and why he is excited about the voice space. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow VOIQ and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow VOIQ: Website: VOIQ.com Twitter: @VOIQinc Linkedin: @VOIQ Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Ian Freed, Co-Founder and CEO of Bamboo Learning. Bamboo Learning is the leader in interactive voice powered education and have recently closed a $1.4M Seed investment round. Also, I have been super excited to interview Ian, given he is a 12 year Amazon veteran with endless interesting experiences. Here is a bit of his bio. At Amazon, Ian was a Vice President, and he served as Technology Adviser to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos from 2004-2005. He led the Amazon Kindle business including business strategy, product development, business development, and marketing from 2006 until 2010. Additionally, Ian led the Amazon Echo/Alexa business from inception in 2011 through first product release in 2015. From 2016-2017, Ian led consumer services including Amazon Restaurants - a one-hour food delivery service from local restaurants in 25 cities. To start off this episode, we look at the origin story of Bamboo Learning and why Ian ultimately started the company in the first place. Following this background, Ian digs into the product itself which is a portfolio of 5 different interactive education experiences. Following the product discussion, we dive into Bamboo’s recent $1.4M Seed investment round. For this piece, Ian frames up where we can expect to see the Bamboo Learning business and product offering go into the years ahead. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow Bamboo Learning and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Bamboo Learning: Website: BambooLearning.com Twitter: @LearnWithBamboo Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
This week on the Voicing Startups podcast I am talking with Travis of Phebi. Phebi, comprised of Phebi Search and Phebi Insight, is a company that creates voice centric products for businesses. Using Phebi, customers can take advantage of the opportunities in V-Commerce and better understand their customers while doing so. For this episode of the podcast, we hyper focused on the Phebi Search product. To start off this episode, Travis starts with the origin of how Phebi came to be a business. We then start to dig into the actual Phebi Search product, which allows you to voice-enable your e-commerce site. We go on to talk about why people businesses should be doing this in the first place and the value of being able to enable your existing e-commerce site. A real value prop of this product is being able to participate in the voice commerce evolution, without putting in too much muscle assuming you have an existing website in place. In the rest of the episode, we dig into the nitty gritty and the true power of the Phebi Search product. To wrap it up, we talk about where we can expect to see Phebi go in the coming months and years ahead. I hope you enjoy this week's episode of Voicing Startups! Check below for the best places to follow Phebi and the Voicing Startups Podcast! If you liked this episode, please Subscribe , Review , and Share it with someone! Follow Phebi: Website: Getphebi.com LinkedIn: @Phebi Follow Voicing Startups & Collin: Website: VoicingStartups.com Twitter: @CollinBorns LinkedIn: @Collin Borns Have your own startup in voice? Pitch: VoicePunch.VC…
 
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