34 min

Episode 8: The Voice Spark Live Team Nick Sawka and Emily Banzhaf Wake Up: The Truth About Alexa

    • Technology

Team from Voice Spark Live - Nick Sawka, Emily Banzhaf

About Emily

Emily is a conversation designer, voice designer, one of the hosts of Voice Spark Live, and a member of the Open Voice Network, working to develop standards and ethical guidelines for voice experiences. She was part of the winning team of the Digital Assistant Academy's Hackabot. Before transitioning to the voice field, Emily was a professional violinist, performing all over the world with various ensembles.

About Nick 

Nicholas was recently brought on at Wanderword as their Chief
Evangelist. Nick will represent Wanderword in the US in sales,
networking, gathering product testers as well as improving the
use/onboarding of Fabula, Poptale and entertainment production.

Nick found his passion for Alexa back in 2015 when she was first
released and was part of the initial Beta program for the device. In
2017 he made the jump to development and has been involved with
creating over 400 Alexa Skills. Further, Nicholas has experience with
working on and creating Google Actions. In addition to his love for
Voice First tech he is an experienced Chief Of Operations with a
demonstrated history of working in the military industry, with a
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from University of Phoenix.

Team from Voice Spark Live - Nick Sawka, Emily Banzhaf

About Emily

Emily is a conversation designer, voice designer, one of the hosts of Voice Spark Live, and a member of the Open Voice Network, working to develop standards and ethical guidelines for voice experiences. She was part of the winning team of the Digital Assistant Academy's Hackabot. Before transitioning to the voice field, Emily was a professional violinist, performing all over the world with various ensembles.

About Nick 

Nicholas was recently brought on at Wanderword as their Chief
Evangelist. Nick will represent Wanderword in the US in sales,
networking, gathering product testers as well as improving the
use/onboarding of Fabula, Poptale and entertainment production.

Nick found his passion for Alexa back in 2015 when she was first
released and was part of the initial Beta program for the device. In
2017 he made the jump to development and has been involved with
creating over 400 Alexa Skills. Further, Nicholas has experience with
working on and creating Google Actions. In addition to his love for
Voice First tech he is an experienced Chief Of Operations with a
demonstrated history of working in the military industry, with a
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from University of Phoenix.

34 min

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