Amazon Makes Routines Shareable - Sonic Insights

This is a voiceover of the Sonic Insights Newsletter - which covers news in the emerging space of audio, voice and hearable tech. Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

This is a voiceover of the Sonic Insights Newsletter - which covers news in the emerging space of audio, voice and hearable tech. Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

This is a voiceover of the Sonic Insights Newsletter - which covers news in the emerging space of audio, voice and hearable tech. Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

This is a voiceover of the Sonic Insights Newsletter - which covers news in the emerging space of audio, voice and hearable tech. Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

This is a voiceover of the Sonic Insights Newsletter - which covers news in the emerging space of audio, voice and hearable tech. Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

The Google app for iOS is getting new TTS features. Google revealed that iOS users can now have the Google app read articles out loud on iOS and queue multiple pages to be read in the style of a podcast. Insights: - The new TTS is for Google app specifically, not browsers like Chrome - Overview of the Queue - Comparison to Android Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

Alexa users have been able to set custom Routines for a while now, but now Amazon is making it easy to share Routines with friends and family. Alexa now has the ability to turn Routines into shareable URL links so that customers can share their favorite Routines with others. Insights: - Background of Alexa Routines - Overview of how the new sharing URLs work - Overview of new Routine partnerships Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

This is a voiceover of the Sonic Insights Newsletter - which covers news in the emerging space of audio, voice and hearable tech. Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

Amazon is doubling down on adding celebrities to the Alexa Platform. More features are coming to the Samuel L. Jackson skill and they recently signed Bollywood Star Amitabh Bachchan. Insights: - This is a two-pronged approach by Amazon to lure more users into trying its voice assistant, and monetizing people's desire to have custom voice assistants. Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave

This year during the virtual Facebook Connect conference Mark Zuckerberg announced a partnership with EssilorLuxottica, the owners of Ray-Ban, to produce consumer smart glasses in 2021. He also announced Project Aria which is a new research project to build wearable AR glasses of the future. Insights: - 2 separate initiatives. One with EssilorLuxottica (owner of Ray-Ban) and an internal Facebook research project. - Overview of the future reality that they are going for and the hurdles in the way - Breakdown of how the research project will go and the wearable AR devices  Facebook researchers will be using - Overview of the privacy constraints put in place Subscribe: Newsletter Youtube Collin Dave