4. And we’vereacheda tippingpoint…
Humans can stop having to
learn how to understand
machines and machines can
finally understand humans.
Thiscreatesanewopportunityfortechnology.
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10. Information-
centricVoice
Focuses on the interaction between human and machine
Commonly tied to a specific device (Google Home,Apps
on phones)
Pioneered by Google and Apple (Siri)
Intended to deliver answers to questions
“Hey Google – what is the weather forecast for today”
“Siri – what time is my dentist appointment”
Started at home, but beginning to enter into the
workplace
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12. Action-centric
Voice
Primarily focused on the interaction between
human and machine
Mostly tied to a specific device (Alexa on Echo,
Apps on phones)
Pioneered by Alexa (Amazon) and Siri (Apple)
Intended to drive questions
“Alexa – start a one minute timer”
“Alexa – playThunder by Imagine Dragons”
Started at home, but beginning to enter into
the workplace
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14. Conversation-
centricVoice
Focuses on human to human interaction with
machine augmentation
Currently being pioneered byVoicera
Connects previously untapped value to existing
collaboration tools (multi-modal)
Voice Commands: “Okay Eva – make sure we organize a follow up
conversation for next week with the client”
Follow up email: Eva says your meeting was 67% more positive than
your last meeting with the client
CRM Update: “Organize a follow up conversation for next week with
the Acme” pushed into Salesforce
Very focused on the workplace and connecting
to workflows
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16. Post-meeting
email provides
daily record of
highlights and
actions from
every meeting
in easy to use
format.
Access to recording & transcription
Basic sentiment & analytics
Recap of highlights and moments
Word cloud to recap key themes
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17. Our bet, and what is starting to pan out, is that this
will move from the home to the work environment
Amazon announced “Alexa for Business”:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/29/amazon-
is-putting-alexa-in-the-office/
Voicera launches your in-meeting virtual
assistant to take notes and identify actions:
https://www.voicera.com/voicera-announces-
open-beta-for-an-ai-that-captures-what-
matters-in-your-meetings/
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18. Benefits ofVoicera over other tools at work
Device independent instead of tethered to an office.
Imagine taking your Alexa device to a customer meeting, or in your phone call while in the car.
Collaboration focused and workflow integrated.
We integrate the outputs into tools like Salesforce. Has sharing and collaboration features.
Multi-modal
Eva takes commands but responds in an interface not verbally.
Partnered with conference providers (not competitive to them.)
We would embed in BlueJeans and other providers.
In-meeting and post-meeting rather than the device you use to start a meeting.
Produces a conversations inbox which provides conversation intelligence, transcripts and analytic
outputs that integrate into your workflow. A lot of the value is in the action post meeting.
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