Voice tech from the builders' side.
Inside VOICE is an industry-focused interview show about voice technology in use. It favors concrete applications: smart speakers, cars, restaurants, healthcare, accessibility, education, IVR systems, and brand voice experiences.
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Inside VOICE is a trade-floor podcast for the voice technology world. It keeps the conversation grounded. Rather than treating voice assistants as a single consumer gadget category, the show follows the many places voice is being tested, refined, and sold. Accessibility is a recurring foundation, especially in discussions of tools that let people use the internet through speech. Automotive voice gets a technical and strategic treatment, with attention to why car manufacturers might choose custom systems instead of simply adding Alexa or Google. Consumer education also matters here. Katherine Prescott's work with Voice Brew points to an audience of people who want Alexa to be useful but need instructions written plainly. The show also spends time with more specialized use cases. Canary Speech brings natural language processing into telehealth and emotional health. Encounter AI applies voice ordering to restaurants, where speed, labor pressure, regional accents, dialects, slang, and comfort with AI all shape adoption. Maria Spyropoulou's IVR experience adds a careful design lens, especially around timeouts, pauses, interruption, audio review, encryption, and anonymous data. DentalFlashGo shows voice as a study tool, turning exam preparation into hands-free practice for dental students. Agency strategy appears too, through RAINN's pivot toward voice work for brands such as Starbucks, Tide, and Headspace. The style is direct and collegial. Guests explain what they are building, what customers ask for, where the technology still strains, and why a focused niche can matter more than a broad claim. Inside VOICE suits listeners who want to understand the industry by hearing from the people making small but consequential decisions inside products, agencies, startups, and voice-enabled services.
Made for: Inside VOICE is for voice technology builders, product teams, startup operators, marketers, designers, and curious technologists tracking real-world adoption. It also suits non-specialists who want business-context interviews rather than dense engineering lectures.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing community access with practical operator detail. Its guests talk about applied voice work across cars, restaurants, healthcare, education, accessibility, smart homes, IVR, and brand agencies instead of staying inside one platform ecosystem.
This podcast is about showcasing the creative, inclusive community in voice technology with a focus on educational and innovative content. You'll hear interesting conversations with some of the top leaders in the voice tech space as well as up and coming people in voice plus, behind the scenes of VOICE events online and offline.Co- Hosted by Keri Roberts, Pete Erickson and James Poulter plus some special guests. Learn more at https://www.voicesummit.ai and send us an email at [email protected].
A Whopper sandwich enters the voice AI discussion, and your lunch order becomes a design problem.
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Paige Harkness makes a grounded case for voice as access to practical Australian services.
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Kyle Houtsved and Scott Houtsved explain why cars may need specialized voice systems that work alongside familiar assistants.
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A grounded look at how clear Alexa guidance answers consumer questions and builds a voice-tech community.
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A clear, commercially aware look at how Canary Speech connects speech biomarkers, patents, and sponsorship to healthcare goals.
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A grounded look at voice AI shaped by restaurant labor, ordering habits, and real customer speech.
Voice technology gets a practical restaurant test when a location is trying to keep service moving with a smaller crew. The review tracks why Encounter AI chose restaurants, why focus matters in voice products, and what operators might gain when one employee can manage two…
Smart speakers, tested out loud and judged without ceremony.
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Paige Harkness says Alkira in Brisbane began in accessibility, when founder Ray Guy built a voice engine to help a blind friend use the internet.
Kyle Halstvedt and Scott Halstvedt of SoundHound argue that in-car voice works best when it is integrated into the car, not siloed on a separate screen, and they use a 2019 vehicle and Mercedes-Benz's "Hey Mercedes" assistant as examples.
Katherine Prescott, founder of VoiceBrew, says she left hedge funds after about a decade and started exploring voice at the end of 2018 with an Echo in her kitchen.
Caitlin Brooksby of Canary Speech says the company sits at the intersection of healthcare and technology, with six patents and 2,458 biomarkers in speech.
Derek Johnson, founder and CEO of Encounter AI, tells Keri Roberts how restaurant voice ordering grew from his early exposure to AOL's "you have mail" and his work at Disney, Accenture, and Freshly.
Maria Spyropoulou, a speech systems analyst at Eckoh, says IVR systems are the "original voice user interface" and share intents, utterances, slots, flows and memory with Alexa skills and Google Actions.
Dentist Chithra Durgam, a practitioner for over 15 years, describes how three TikToks a day for one summer, following Gary Vaynerchuk's challenge, brought patients into her practice after about seven months.
Nir Eyal argues Alexa skills need an "investment phase" that uses customer preferences, data, or content to improve the experience with use.
This episode features an interview with the CEO and COO of RAINN, a top agency that pivoted to voice technology, discussing their rationale and leadership.
Ethan Richardson discusses his journey from the UK to Romania, founding CarSay to solve car dealership problems using voice technology.
This episode features an interview with the co-founders of VoxUp, discussing their background and the voice tech startup.
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