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Mukul Devichand talks about why the BBC is launching their own smart voice assistant called Beeb.

Published: July 13, 2020, 8:47 p.m.

b'Mukul Devichand is the BBC senior editor of Voice + AI at the BBC. He is creating and shaping the world\\u2019s first public service AI Assistant ( \\u201cBeeb\\u201d).\\n\\nHe was recently asked by BBC bosses to respond to the emergence of Voice AI assistants such as Alexa or Google Assistant, widely seen as the next chapter in the amazing and fractious story of the internet. \\n\\nMukul now sets the creative and editorial direction for the whole BBC, globally and for the UK, in Voice AI. This meant dreaming up, birthing and shaping a new AI assistant technology, \\u201cBeeb,\\u201d designed to be a public service media interface into Artificial Intelligence platforms.'