"Hey Alexa, What's Next for Voice Tech?" Event Highlights (March 28, 2019)
Disruptors2 Apr 2019

"Hey Alexa, What's Next for Voice Tech?" Event Highlights (March 28, 2019)

The most common question people ask their voice tech assistant isn't “How's the weather?" Not anymore. Today, it's “Alexa, will you marry me?" With 80,000 skills and growing, marriage is maybe the one thing Alexa can’t do. This year, the smart speaker industry will grow to be worth an estimated $7 billion, and demand could potentially surpass that of smartphones. Al Lindsay, a Canadian voice tech pioneer and Amazon’s VP of Alexa Engine Software joined us at the last RBC Disruptors to share his insights into a voice-first world.


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