E5 Gabriel Skantze - Professor in Speech Technology with a specialization in Conversational Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Furhat

100% Corona free episode. Gabriel explains the background of the massive growth of the voice assistant industry since the first breakthrough in 2011.  We talk about how far today's assistants are from the vision from Google and Amazon executives of "Computer" in Star Trek. Also the implication of assistants as Google Duplex passing the Turing test and what this will mean to our relationship to machines. This and much more in episode 5 of Voice-first in Sweden. Don't miss! Photo: In the background, the worlds first speech synthesis machine "Ove" developed by Gunnar Fant, founder of the  Division of Speech, Music, and Hearing (TMH) at KTH.

Om Podcasten

Welcome to voice-first in Sweden. Using our voice is the most natural way for us to communicate. So with voice-first, we are entering an era where technology can truly help us on our own terms. We don’t have to cramp our fingers on QWERTY keyboards, we can just speak our mind, have our own Star Trek “computer”. This podcast will with appetite and curiosity dig into the research, development, strategies, and business of the voice industry and interview its leaders. Follow the early days of voice technology as it develops in Sweden. Hosted by: Johan Östrand.