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| Feb 20, 2019 | Apple Acquires Pullstring for Improved Voice AI | Apple has purchase PullString, a startup that specialises in voice activated toys. That may sound like a strange fit for one of the biggest tech brands on earth, but the move has likely implications for the way Apple deploys voice control a... |
| Feb 18, 2019 | Top startup news for today, Monday, February 18, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Monday, February 18.
SoftBank invests half of the $400 million in Abu Dhabi fund for European startups. Japan’s SoftBank has invested $200 million in a UAE f... |
| Feb 15, 2019 | Apple Acquires PullString that offers Powerful Tools for Voice Apps in Entertainment, Financial Services and Health Care
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Search | Apple has agreed to buy PullString, a San Francisco-based startup that enables the design and publishing of voice apps. Their Home Page states: "Collaboratively Design, Prototype and Publish Voice Applications for Amazon Alexa." B... |
| Dec 13, 2018 | Consumers Want Understanding Over Personality from Voice Assistants, Games Aren’t on Their Radar – New Data | Consumers Want Understanding Over Personality from Voice Assistants, Games Aren’t on Their Radar – New Data
Bret Kinsella on December 13, 2018 at 10:21 pm
A survey of U.S. adults revealed that “How well it understands me…” is the most impor... |
| Dec 10, 2018 | Oren Jacob and Greg Hedges Discuss Voice Assistant Adoption Beyond the Smart Speaker – Voicebot Podcast Ep 73 | Oren Jacob and Greg Hedges Discuss Voice Assistant Adoption Beyond the Smart Speaker – Voicebot Podcast Ep 73
Bret Kinsella on December 10, 2018 at 12:52 pm
Oren Jacob is CEO and founder of PullString and Greg Hedges is Vice President of Em... |
| Nov 14, 2018 | Information and Communication Tasks Beat Out Entertainment for Voice Assistant Use Cases on Smartphones | Information and Communication Tasks Beat Out Entertainment for Voice Assistant Use Cases on Smartphones
Bret Kinsella on November 14, 2018 at 1:49 pm
Voicbot’s Voice Assistant Consumer Adoption Report 2018 developed in collaboration with Pu... |
| Nov 13, 2018 | New Report: Over 1 Billion Devices Provide Voice Assistant Access Today and Highest Usage is on Smartphones | New Report: Over 1 Billion Devices Provide Voice Assistant Access Today and Highest Usage is on Smartphones
Bret Kinsella on November 13, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Over one billion devices provide voice assistant access today; leading the pack are Go... |
| Sep 19, 2018 | Alexa’s new Spartan Skill introduces new Personality, Alexios | Alexa’s new Spartan Skill introduces new Personality, Alexios
Maddie Iribarren on September 19, 2018 at 4:53 pm
Joining Alexa’s cohort of interactive gaming skills next month is an Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey Alexa Skill, called The Spartan w... |
| Sep 12, 2018 | Amazon Maintains Smart Speaker Market Share Lead, Apple Rises Slightly to 4.5% | Amazon Maintains Smart Speaker Market Share Lead, Apple Rises Slightly to 4.5%
Bret Kinsella on September 12, 2018 at 11:05 am
A national survey of 1,040 U.S. adults earlier this month commissioned by Voicebot, RAIN and PullString shows tha... |
| Sep 1, 2018 | Is it Better to Build or Buy a Voice App? Ask Yourself 3 Questions. | Is it Better to Build or Buy a Voice App? Ask Yourself 3 Questions.
Patrick Ku on September 1, 2018 at 8:16 pm
The incredible adoption of voice activated devices is driving brands to rapidly embark on a journey towards building engaging voi... |
| Jul 29, 2018 | The 3 next steps in conversational AI | Conversational AI is a subfield of artificial intelligence focused on producing natural and seamless conversations between humans and computers. We’ve seen several amazing advances on this front in recent years, with significant improvement... |
| Jul 29, 2018 | The 3 next steps in conversational AI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Conversational AI is a subfield of artificial int... |
| Jun 14, 2018 | Pullstring Adds Multi-Modal Support to Converse Platform | Pullstring Adds Multi-Modal Support to Converse Platform
Bret Kinsella on June 14, 2018 at 1:48 pm
Pullstring Vice President Guillaume Privat
Pullstring has announced that it now supports building multi-modal experiences through its Convers... |
| Jun 8, 2018 | 4 ways Alexa will change how small businesses reach customers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Back when social media was getting started, it in... |
| Jun 8, 2018 | 4 ways Alexa will change how small businesses reach customers | Back when social media was getting started, it initially spread among college students and techie first adopters, followed by corporations, small businesses, and your parents. Now presidents and popes tweet, and billions of people around th... |
| Jun 2, 2018 | 4 Reasons Why CMOs Should Care About Voice | 4 Reasons Why CMOs Should Care About Voice
Guillaume Privat on June 2, 2018 at 9:00 am
This post originally appeared on the PullString blog.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last twelve months, you’ve heard about voice assista... |
| May 2, 2018 | Cooking, Multitasking and Television Top the List of Voice Assistant Activity Pairings | Cooking, Multitasking and Television Top the List of Voice Assistant Activity Pairings
Bret Kinsella on May 2, 2018 at 8:48 am
There is some solid survey data on the most common voice assistant use cases employed by consumers. These use cas... |
| Mar 21, 2018 | Data Breakdown, How Consumers Use Smart Speakers Today | Data Breakdown, How Consumers Use Smart Speakers Today
Bret Kinsella on March 21, 2018 at 7:31 am
One of the core objectives of the Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2018 was to determine what use cases consumers had tried on the devic... |
| Mar 19, 2018 | Smart Speaker Adoption Data Review, PullString and RAIN Weigh In – Voicebot Podcast Ep 34 | Smart Speaker Adoption Data Review, PullString and RAIN Weigh In – Voicebot Podcast Ep 34
Bret Kinsella on March 19, 2018 at 11:36 am
Voicebot, PullString and RAIN Agency collaborated on the Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2018. Toda... |
| Mar 14, 2018 | Voice Shopping is Monthly Habit for 11.5% of Smart Speaker Owners | Voice Shopping is Monthly Habit for 11.5% of Smart Speaker Owners
Bret Kinsella on March 14, 2018 at 10:05 am
When Voicebot collaborated with PullString and RAIN Agency to assess consumer adoption of smart speakers, a key focus was to under... |
| Mar 7, 2018 | New Voicebot Report Says Nearly 20% of U.S. Adults Have Smart Speakers | New Voicebot Report Says Nearly 20% of U.S. Adults Have Smart Speakers
Bret Kinsella on March 7, 2018 at 9:30 am
Voicebot collaborated with PullString and RAIN Agency to conduct an in-depth national survey of 1,057 U.S. adults to find out m... |
| Mar 1, 2018 | Pullstring Update Aims to Make Everyone a Voice App Developer | Pullstring Update Aims to Make Everyone a Voice App Developer
Bret Kinsella on March 1, 2018 at 11:07 pm
Pullstring has released an update to its Converse software that makes it easier of non-technical digital professionals to create and la... |
| Feb 28, 2018 | Designed for enterprise, PullString Converse lets anyone create Alexa apps | PullString, the voice technology company that began its life as ToyTalk, and counts among its customers brands like Mattel, Activision, and Samsung, is today publicly launching software that allows non-technical creative professionals the a... |
| Dec 20, 2017 | 2018 Voice Assistant Predictions from 20 Innovators | 2018 Voice Assistant Predictions from 20 Innovators
Bret Kinsella on December 20, 2017 at 12:33 pm
Voicebot reached out to 20 innovators working with voice assistant and AI technologies to get their predictions for 2018. The predictions ran... |
| Dec 18, 2017 | Voicebot Podcast Episode 21 – Oren Jacob, CEO Pullstring Talks Pixar, Alexa and Sponge Bob | Voicebot Podcast Episode 21 – Oren Jacob, CEO Pullstring Talks Pixar, Alexa and Sponge Bob
Bret Kinsella on December 18, 2017 at 3:00 pm
Oren Jacob is co-founder and CEO of Pullstring. Founded in 2011, Pullstring is maker of Converse, an en... |
| May 31, 2017 | Executives and entrepreneurs debate the challenges of enterprise AI | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“Enterprise users don’t know the difference betwe... |
| Mar 31, 2017 | Google Posts List of Leading Agencies, Dev and Analytics Tools for Custom Google Actions | Google Posts List of Leading Agencies, Dev and Analytics Tools for Custom Google Actions
Bret Kinsella on March 31, 2017 at 9:03 am
Google is quickly building out developer resources for Google Actions to facilitate more application develop... |
| Mar 25, 2017 | 21 bot experts make their predictions for 2017 | 2016 was a huge year for bots, with major platforms like Facebook launching bots for Messenger, and Amazon and Google heavily pushing their digital assistants. Looking forward to 2017, we asked 21 bot experts, entrepreneurs, and executives ... |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Google Assistant actions can now be made with the PullString bot machine | Bot machine maker PullString is now able to make actions for Google Assistant, the company announced today in a blog post.
PullString has made bots for customers as varied as Hello Barbie, The Grand Tour Alexa skill, and others. Last May th... |
| Feb 1, 2017 | How real investors separate AI hype from reality | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Artificial intelligence has captured public imagi... |
| Jan 27, 2017 | RE-WORK Virtual Assistant Summit Round-up: Pixar, Inbenta, Pullstring and More
Speech Recognition and NLP
Building Virtual Assistants | RE-WORK Virtual Assistant Summit Round-up: Pixar, Inbenta, Pullstring and More
Bret Kinsella on January 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm
RE-WORK’s Virtual Assistant Summit is underway this week in San Francisco. The key topics for Day 1 were Advancemen... |
| Jan 9, 2017 | 5 bots to try this week: Andy English, Pepper, PullString, Self Care, MemeChicken | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Why say it in words when you can say it with a picture? Why say it with a picture when you can say it with a meme? Memes for Messenger ... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Bot platform from PullString, maker of Barbie and Call of Duty bots, lets you create characters | The PullString platform for the creation of storytelling bots made its debut today. For the better part of the last decade, the PullString platform has been used internally to create characters like Lt. Reyes from Call of Duty Facebook Mess... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Pullstring launches bot-authoring tools for fun & profit | Pullstring — née ToyTalk — today launched its eponymous product out of private beta and into the hands of creators of conversational interfaces everywhere. Out of the box, creators can make bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Skype, Kik, Te... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Bot platform from PullString, maker of Barbie and Call of Duty bots, lets you create characters | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The PullString platform for the creation of storytelling bots made its debut today. For the better part of the last decade, the PullStr... |
| Jul 4, 2016 | 5 bots that could change democracy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You may have heard about the Donald Trump bot arm... |
| Jul 4, 2016 | 5 bots that could change democracy | You may have heard about the Donald Trump bot army and the Twitter bots that have influenced elections in Latin America, but there are other bots out there, bots that connect citizens to services, bots that plan to crowdsource the election ... |
| True Insights: Opt for Optimism | As we rev up (and down) before the holidays, we’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude and the power of showing appreciation for one another in tangible ways. What our Founders do matters, and we know they’ll continue to opt for optimism in... |