In this episode, Roger talks with voice development expert and thought leader Allen Firstenberg.

Allen is a developer and project manager for Objective Consulting and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for many Google products. Allen slso co-hosts with Mark Tucker, the must listen to Two Voice Devs podcast.

Allen and Roger discuss:

• What Objective Consulting does
• Why companies should be building a voice presence now and how a voice presence can be a competitive advantage
• What is a Google Developer Expert and how one becomes a GDE? And how important developer relations and "super developers" like GDE's are to technology companies
• Allen's history of working with voice
• The promise, the success, and the failure of Google Glass and lessons learned that are relevant today
• Vodo Drive: Allen's creation which allows reading and writing to spreadsheets via voice and the promise it holds
• Voice in business
• True personalization in voice, putting the capital "A" in assistant
• The Two Voice Devs podcast
• Samsung's vision for voice and the promise it holds
• Truly contextually sensitive voice assistants and the future
• Predictions for voice in the near term and longer term
• Allen's favorite voice experiences
• . . . and much more

Links from the Show
Objective Consulting - spiders.com
Vodo Drive - vodo-drive.com
Two Voice Devs Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWYqZpPY2U_wn2P72FUpBA and
https://anchor.fm/two-voice-devs

Keeping in Touch
Allen  on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/allen-s-firstenberg-950130/
Allen on Twitter - twitter.com/afirstenberg

Host: Roger Kibbe
(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/Samsung

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