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We had some audio troubles with this one, so apologies for the less than full quality interview. We think you’ll enjoy anyway —Chris

Who founded Alexa? His name is Jeff! He’s an expert on voice recognition and we have a brand new interview with him. We ask him a bunch of questions but especially: Does he use Alexa in his own house?

More Questions Include

• What’s the story of how Alexa came about?

• How does your faith affect your work in technology?

• What are the next big things coming with voice technology?

Plus, Chris & Adam Discuss:

• Are we good at predicting the next big technology? (seems like… no)

• How the first automobile relates to the Alexa project

• Should Alexa be emotionally intelligent?

About Jeff Adams

Jeff Adams has been a speech technologist for 25 years, spending time at Nuance, Yap, and Amazon. At Amazon, Jeff founded the Alexa Speech Group and led the team of speech and language scientists that built the automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding engines that Alexa runs on. Today he is the CEO and Founder of Colbalt Speech.

Links & Resources

• Check out Jeff Adam’s podcast: The Voice Box

• More about the Alexander Winton and the founding of the automobile (Saturday Evening Post, 1911).

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