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Ultimate Guide to Voice Assistants

Curation of startups, resources, people, posts etc in the voice-space

This is my first guide posted on GitHub, bear with me. You can submit a pull request with anything else you think should be added here.

Originally posted on Medium

Image credit β€” CNET: Kids try to stump Alexa

It will come as no surprise to those of you reading this (thanks!), that the interest and applications of β€˜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 wont 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.

πŸ’« Here are some that I find particularly useful πŸ’«

"2017 will be a defining moment for voice. Voice-first devices shipped by year:

2015: 1.7 million,
2016: 6.6 million,
2017: 24.5 million" The 2017 Voice Report by VoiceLabs


πŸ€” How To Use This

πŸ“° 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 β€”if you’re interested, sign up!

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

πŸ€‘ 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.

πŸ‘₯ 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.

Enjoy 😊!

πŸš€ 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;

  • Get a skill made/make skills for people/companies
    - Find investors active in the field
    - Intros to other active enthusiasts
    - Bounce ideas around with others
    - Advice & mentorship from experienced individuals
    - Resources and tools to help you build
    - Discover interesting products and companies

πŸ“° News

πŸ—ž Newsletters

Hearing Voices

The Official Amazon Alexa Developer Newsletter

Made By Google

(General Google news + Google Home. Subscribe at bottom of their page)

πŸ–₯ Websites/Sources

Medium - Alexa

Medium - Voice Assistant

Medium - Amazon Echo

Medium - Google Home

Medium - Siri

Medium - Voice

VentureBeat - Voice Assistants

Reddit - Alexa

Reddit - Amazon Echo

Reddit - Google Home

WIRED - Voice Assistants

TechCrunch - Alexa

TechCrunch - Google Home

VoiceLabs

ReadMultiplex

Hackernoon - Alexa

πŸ“œ General news in space (not Voice specific)

Inside - Technically Sentient

Bot Publication

Go Mainstrm

Chatbots Magazine

Locutius

O'Reilly Bots Podcast

Messaging Weekly β€” curated by the Smooch team

Chatbots Weekly β€” Curated by Omar Pera and the Reply.ai team


🍜 Startups

πŸ—£ Platforms

Amazon Developer

Actions on Google

Mycroft

Microsoft Cortana

Apple Siri

Viv

πŸ‘” Companies

Capito Systems

Cognitive Code β€” Silvia

Mindmeld

Nuance

Verbio

Raven Tech (Acq by Baidu)

Mobvoi

☁️ Cloud Services

Amazon Lex

Amazon Polly

Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft Cognitive Services

πŸ›  Build

- SDKs & Frameworks

Assist

Alexa Skills Kit

Pullstring

Conversable

Bespoken Tools

Api.ai for Google Assistant

Api.ai for Amazon Alexa

Kitt.ai

Sayspring

Houndify

Smartly.ai

Gomix

IFTTT

- Extras

This post by Brian Donohue is a great place to get started: Build your first Alexa skill

AlexaTutorial

How to Build your First Amazon Alexa Skill (eBook) by Rocket Insights

Alexa, what's for lunch?

Build an Alexa Skill in 7 Minutes Flat with Node.js and StdLib

alexa message builder

πŸ’Ό Agencies

Xandra

Assist

Rain

Mobiquity

Matchbox

[Solstice](http://www.solstice.com/alexa?utm_source=Amazon Alexa Partner Page&utm_campaign=Amazon Alexa Partner Page)

SciFutures

VaynerMedia

Witlingo, Inc.

AKQA

Razorfish

Giant Spoon

Iconmobile

Newscycle Solutions

Blink

Mindshare

TribalScale

Volara

Vectorform

XAPPmedia, Inc.

Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation

UI Centric

Opearlo

VocaliD

Conversant Labs

Future of Voice

πŸ“ˆ Analytics

VoiceLabs.co

Opearlo Analytics

Witlingo, Inc

dashbot

Botanalytics

πŸŽ™ Products

Alexa Skills Store App on iOS and Android

Unofficial Alexa Skills Store

OK Google

Reverb 2.0

Clarke.ai

Mylestone

EchoSim

astra

Hound

Finie

πŸ€– Hardware

Nucleus

Jam Voice

Ivee

Jibo

Whyd

Kuri

Lynx

Hello Egg

Triby IO

Petnet

TrackR

Musaic

Scout Alarm

Garageio

Toymail

ecobee

Luma

ring

Thalmic Labs

embodied

Owlet

Vesper

πŸ€‘ Fundraising

Alexa Fund

Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars

Lightspeed Ventures

Launch Capital

NextView Ventures

Betaworks β€” Get Support from the Alexa Team at Betaworks’Voicecamp

πŸ’΅ Alexa Fund (All the companies announced)

Sutro

invoxia

Petnet

Rachio

mojio

TrackR

Musaic

Scout Alarm

Garageio

Toymail

Dragon Innovation

Kitt.ai

ecobee

Luma

ring

Nucleus

Defined Crowd

πŸ‘₯ People & Posts

M.G. Siegler β€” General Partner GV. On Twitter

Matt Hartman- partner at betaworks + runs Hearing Voices Newsletter. On Twitter

Sarah Guoβ€” people-first investor Greylock Partners. On Twitter

Sarah Perezβ€” Reporter at TechCrunch. On Twitter

Patrick Montagueβ€” vp at betaworks. On Twitter

Owen Williamsβ€” Freelance writer + developer. On Twitter

Shane Macβ€” CEO Assist. On Twitter

Hugh Durkinβ€” Senior Product Manager, Intercom.On Twitter

Aaron Batalionβ€” Partner,Lightspeed. On Twitter

Johna Paolinoβ€” UX / product design General Assembly. On Twitter

Adam Marchickβ€” Trying to build a better company, every day @VoiceLabsCo and Kahuna.

Alexandre Linaresβ€” Co-Founder @VoiceLabsCo / EIR @ The Chernin Group. On Twitter

Oren Jacobβ€” CEO and CoFounder, PullString. Prev, Pixar. On Twitter

Brian Roemmele β€” Founder + Editor at Multiplex. On Twitter

Chris Messinaβ€” Invented the hashtag; X Uber; Xoogler. On Twitter

Cathy Pearlβ€” Director of User Experience @Sense_ly. Author of the O’Reilly book Designing Voice User Interfaces. On Twitter

Trip ODellβ€” Strategically-oriented product design leader @Amazon. On Twitter

David Beiselβ€” Co-founder & Partner at NextView Ventures. On Twitter

Nithya Thadani β€” CEO of Rain

Dave Balterβ€”I’m an Innovation-Obsessed Founder at Mylestone. On Twitter

Jeremy Liewβ€” Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. On Twitter

Dag Kittlausβ€” Co-Founder/CEO Siri & Viv Labs. On Twitter


A community helping facilitate connections to;

  • Get a skill made/make skills for people/companies
    - Find investors active in the field
    - Intros to other active enthusiasts
    - Bounce ideas around with others
    - Advice & mentorship from experienced individuals
    - Resources and tools to help you build
    - Discover interesting products and companies

πŸ‘‰ Feel free to follow and reach out on Twitter

πŸ™ Thanks to everyone who looked at this draft very early on! And perhaps I’ll see you all in the newsletter or Build Voices πŸ˜‰


Side Note:

I have β€˜borrowed’ this template from The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning & ArtificialIntelligence which is an awesome post & newsletter I use to learn about Machine Learning. Thanks Sam DeBrule πŸ™Œ

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