What We Wish We’d Known About Making Audio Games (Excerpt I) Joseph Jaquinta, CTO, TsaTsaTzu (A lightly edited excerpt of the talk of the same name for the Berlin Voice Conference 2018.) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, and thank you for…
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ENTER SALESFORCE’S EINSTEIN
ENTER SALESFORCE’S EINSTEIN Salesforce.com (market cap = $116 billion) has just announced the release of Einstein Voice enabled AI, the smartphone ready equivalent to Alexa without the need for specialized hardware. Salesforce has long been in the business of accepting…
Voice – The Killer App
Voice – The Killer App We did another talk yesterday for Design Thinkers eXperience, Service Designers & Innovators in Dublin. Speaking in front of a sold out crowd, Dublin, we discussed the opportunities that Voice Enabled experiences can deliver –…
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Using Real World Geography in Voice Apps
Using Real World Geography in Voice Apps One of TsaTsaTzu’s flagship skills is the open ended adventure game 6 Swords. In this game, the player leads a team of up to six characters on expeditions across a fantasy landscape. It’s…
Amazon’s New Alexa Monetization Options
AMAZON’S NEW ALEXA MONETIZATION OPTIONS Back in November, Amazon announced plans to allow audio app developers to add monetization options to their skills. Its main competitor, Google Assistant, has had such tools in place for almost a year now –…
Voice: The Killer App
Voice: The Killer App Mary Meeker publishes an annual survey of internet trends that is closely watched by techies and investors alike. This year she gave some time to the explosive growth of Voice across all manner of platforms. The…
Monetization APIs: The Only Hurdle?
MONETIZATION APIs: THE ONLY HURDLE? Just because you can do something… does it mean you should do something? Google has had monetization tools in place for Google Assistant apps since mid 2017. We haven’t seen great use made of these…
Alexa Reaches For The Next Level of IoT
Alexa Reaches For The Next Level of IoT Amazon has made no secret of its ambitions for the Internet of Things (IoT). Alexa is meant to lock users into the Amazon ecosystem – providing access to products, services and…
CNET: THE ECONOMICS OF ALEXA DEVELOPMENT
CNET: The Economics of Alexa Development Today CNET is running an article exploring how developers are (or are not) getting paid in the audio apps economy. TsaTsaTzu’s CTO Joseph Jaquinta is featured alongside other top developers as the article shares anecdotes…
INTERCONNECTED MINDS PODCAST
INTERCONNECTED MINDS PODCAST A Series of Twelve Conversations with Women Entrepreneurs in Technology Iris Stammberger, PhD, the Founder and CEO of TALBOK Consulting, is producing a series of twelve conversations with prominent women tech leaders in the Boston including …..…
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