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Topics:

• Whether should brands create their own mini voice assistants like Beeb - which kind of brands should consider this? Katherine explains

• The newly announced Interoperability Initiative will strive to ensure that voice activated devices will work with multiple digital assistants like Alexa and Siri at the same time.

• The two camps regarding what the voice-first future holds:

  • A) People will mainly interact with just one assistant (see Adam Cheyer, co-founder of Siri Inc.)

  • B) We will all use multiple voice assistants

  • C) A middle ground of master and mini assistants - Dave explains how Alexa could launch Beeb (BBC's assistant) or Spot (Spotify's assistant) - and Beeb would be the master of that smaller domain / use case, making a better overall experience

• Alexa eventually functioning as an App Store - but for voice

• Plus, how devices like Echo Buds and Echo Frames fit in to a world of mini voice assistants

• What is the potential of Echo Buds to allow us to access web content we have never thought of as audio enabled?

• Echo Frames could be quite powerful to usher us into a world where the input is pure voice but the output/response is multimodal (visual and audio) - Katherine makes a great point here

Get in touch with Dave and Katherine:

Dave Kemp, Business Development Manager at Oaktree Products, Inc.

• FuturEar.co

• @Oaktree_Dave

Katherine Prescott, Founder & Editor at VoiceBrew

• @kbprescott