Podcasts Technology Two Voice Devs Episode 177 - Looking Back at 2023

Episode 177 - Looking Back at 2023

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 4 p.m.

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Allen Firstenberg and Mark Tucker, hosts of Two Voice Devs, reflect on the year 2023, discussing significant changes and trends in the #VoiceFirst and #GenerativeAI industry and where their predictions from last year were accurate... or fell short. They discuss the transformation and challenges Amazon faced, gleaning predictions from hints at large language models (LLMs) from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. They also mention the shift of Voiceflow towards LLMs and recall the notion of retrieval augmented generation.

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00:04 Introduction and Welcome

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00:12 Reflecting on the Past Year

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01:13 Amazon's Progress and Challenges

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01:59 Exploring Amazon's Monetization and Widgets

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08:45 Google's Journey and the End of Conversational Actions

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11:53 The Rise of Large Language Models (LLMs)

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17:04 The Impact of Voiceflow and Dialogflow

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20:48 Closing Remarks and New Year Wishes

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