Voice-First Technology And The Car: A New Frontier For Publishers
During the Super Bowl, this ad for Mercedes Benz aired, which clearly demonstrates how expectations for voice technology (more properly, voice-first technology) have progressed to encompass the modern car: The implication here is that everything is possible by using our voices and talking to objects around us. And, indeed, this is the destination that voice-first technology has us headed toward. Digital Book World has come to incorporate voice technology within the broad purv
Castlingo: a great tool for publishers to create Alexa skills with zero code
Thanks to our partner Witlingo, a company based in the DC area which develops voice experiences for brands, Digital Book World has access to a new service called Castlingo. This service makes it easier than it has ever been before for publishers and content creators to create their own Alexa skill, without knowing any code whatsoever. Compliments of a special arrangement lasting through December 8, Castlingo is available for FREE. You can use it to create an Alexa skill right
The Voice-First Future Of Book Discoverability
The future of book discoverability is voice-first technology, where audiobooks, podcasts, voice assistants, and smart speakers converge to c
This Week In Voice podcast concludes Season 2 with Digital Book World 2018 preview
Voice-first technology is accelerating. Adoption of voice assistants and smart speakers, by every type of organization and sector, is growing far faster than most ever would have thought, just a few years ago. VoiceFirst.FM - the podcast network for the new era of #VoiceFirst computing - has grown right along with it, and now is heard in over 50 countries worldwide. We're pleased to welcome two celebrity guests to the panel to close out Season 2 (see all previous episodes and
Google's "Talk To Books" Might Have Just Changed Everything
Digital Book World took a field trip to London Book Fair last week, just as we'll do with the Frankfurt Book Fair which is after DBW 2018, also in October...only to discover arguably the most important news in publishing last week happened right here in the United States. Last Friday, Google unveiled "Talk To Books," a new tool which uses semantic search - search based on meaning, rather than mere keywords, and powered by the same Google conversational AI used to implement 's
