AiC Episode 106

In this episode, Teri will do a recap of the ten best episodes of the Alexa in Canada podcast in 2019.

And the 10th Most Listened to Episode is!

#10: 73 – Voice Design with Obeid Ahmed of Botmock

  • Obeid is an entrepreneur, mentor, and technologist, and has been involved in a lot of early stage startups.
  • He came on the show to talk about Botmock, a platform he created to allow people to publish skills to Alexa and other platforms. Botmock is designed to create conversations between a user and Alexa in a simpler drag and drop editor, so the user doesn’t really need to know code to do it.
  • Botmock allows developers to share their prototypes and get feedback all in one centralized location. It’s helping companies and individuals build better voice experiences.
  • Obeid has a great use case that he talks about where they used Botmock with the Canadian Blood Services to create some conversational design experiences.
  • The episode can be found at AlexainCanada.ca/73

#9: 62 – The 2019 Alexa Conference Roundup

  • This was a very popular podcast.
  • Teri recorded this episode at the 2019 Alexa Conference. He approached a number of key leaders and influencers in the voice space and asked them for a little bit of a sound bite and then he put them together to produce a kind of mashup.
  • It’s available at AlexainCanada.ca/62

#8: 78 – How to Setup Alexa in Canada in 2019

  • This was an update on Teri’s original episode on how to set up Alexa.
  • It’s available at AlexainCanada.ca/78

#7: 75 – Awesome Aariv Modi: A Grade 5 Alexa Skill Developer

  • Teri interviewed a grade 5 voice technology enthusiast and developer, Aariv Modi, who was accompanied by his dad. Aariv is making Alexa skills and creating educational videos. He is all in on Amazon Alexa and is such a bright young man.
  • Aariv is going to be speaking at the Project Voice event in January 2020.
  • The episode is available at AlexainCanada.ca/75

2019 Top Ten Alexa in Canada Podcasts

#6: 66 – The Last Interface with Brian Roemmelle

  • Brian Roemmelle is one of those visionaries that don’t come around often.
  • He has been termed “The Oracle of Voice” and is the one who came up with the term “Voice First”
  • He has often times been described as the “Modern Day Thomas Edison”
  • This episode was all about Brian’s ideas about where we are going with voice technology and how he feels that voice is the primary input and output device of the human being.
  • The episode is available at AlexainCanada.ca/66

#5: 3 – How Does Alexa Work?

  • Teri went through the basic terms of what the difference is between Alexa and an Echo, what a skill is, the different components of an Echo Device, what happens when someone speaks to Alexa, etc.
  • The episode is available at AlexainCanada.ca/3

#4: 61 – How to Create an Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing

  • This was an episode Teri did about how to create an Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing.
  • Teri has a comprehensive course on how to create a flash briefing available at FlashBriefingFormula.com, and it’s absolutely free.

#3: 60 – 2019 Top Ten Amazon Alexa Skills in Canada

  • Teri went through the Amazon Skill Store and looked at what the top skills in Canada were at that time.
  • He did not include the ambient sound skills in the list because they’re so many.

#2: 65 – Interactive Storytelling with Amy Stapleton of Tellables

  • They talked about interactive storytelling in the context of Amy’s company, Tellables, and in particular their Alexa skill called, My Box of Chocolates. It’s a very unique concept that allows users to ask Alexa about boxes of chocolates where the different chocolates in the boxes represent different stories. The different storytellers have different personas.

And Now For the Top Alexa in Canada Podcast Episode for 2019…

#1: 4 – How to Setup Alexa in Canada

  • It was the first episode Teri did that was specifically about addressing how to set up Alexa in Canada.
  • It was the most listened to podcast episode.

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