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Ultimate Guide to Voice Assistants

by Ben TossellFebruary 15th, 2017

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It will come as no surprise to those of you reading this (thanks!), that the interest and applications of ‘<a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/voice-assistants" target="_blank">Voice-Assistants</a>’ is growing rapidly. Amazon Alexa <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/amazon-alexa-hits-10000-skills-plenty-room-grow/" target="_blank">recently hit 10,000 skills</a> and there is talk around <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/25/heres-what-will-drive-adoption-for-another-10000-amazon-alexa-skills/" target="_blank">what will drive adoption</a> for the next 10,000. I won’t be diving into specifics and discussing issues like <a href="http://www.recode.net/2017/1/23/14340966/voicelabs-report-alexa-google-assistant-echo-apps-discovery-problem" target="_blank">retention</a>. That is not what this post is about.

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It will come as no surprise to those of you reading this (thanks!), that the interest and applications of ‘Voice-Assistants’ is growing rapidly. Amazon Alexa recently hit 10,000 skills and there is talk around what will drive adoption for the next 10,000. I won’t be diving into specifics and discussing issues like retention. That is not what this post is about.

There are lots of resources & tools, tons of cool products, frameworks, articles and people out there to help you learn about the landscape.

💫 Here are some that I find particularly useful 💫

This post is also on GitHub and open for suggestions, just submit a pull request

The 2017 Voice Report by VoiceLabs

🤔 How To Use This

📰 News: There is very little on the newsletter front focusing on Voice-Assistants. Matt Hartman does the best one IMO.

(I’m thinking of starting one too —if you’re interested, sign up below!)

🍜 Startups: Always interesting to see the companies operating in these spaces. They are broken down into different categories so you can easily jump into ‘Building’, ‘Products’, ‘Analytics’ etc. If you think there are some that need adding, tell me here.

🤑 Funding: This is just to outline some companies/funds that are very focused in the space right now. Again, if I’ve missed some worthwhile, tell me here.

👥 People & Posts: These are some of the awesome people I follow and have come across. I’ve linked them all, you should check them out. If I’ve missed some worthwhile, you know to tell me here.

Ultimate Guide to Voice Assistants

Too Long; Didn't Read

People Mentioned

Companies Mentioned

💫 Here are some that I find particularly useful 💫

🤔 How To Use This

Enjoy 😊!

🚀 I’ve launched something:

Skills.wtf — A site to find the best Alexa Skills

🚀Also, I’ve added a little note about an experiment I’m working on at the end of this post. A community helping facilitate connections to;

📰 News

🗞 Newsletters

🖥 Websites/Sources

📜 General news in space (not Voice specific)

🍜 Startups

🗣 Platforms

👔 Companies

☁️ Cloud Services

🛠 Build

- SDKs & Frameworks

- Extras

💼 Agencies

📈 Analytics

🎙 Products

🤖 Hardware

🤑 Fundraising

💵 Alexa Fund (All the companies announced)

👥 People & Posts

🚀 I am working on an experiment- A community helping facilitate connections to;

👍 Please tap “♥︎” if you found this useful to help others see it too

👾 This post is also on GitHub and open for suggestions, just submit a pull request

👉 Feel free to follow and reach out on Twitter

🙏 Thanks to everyone who looked at this draft very early on! And perhaps I’ll see you all in the newsletter or Build Voices 😉

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