Alexa & Friends: Recent Episodes
Amazon Alexa
A weekly interview show about Amazon's voice AI, featuring the diverse set of people that research, build, and create amazing voice experiences. You'll hear from scientists and product development team members at Amazon, as well as voice designers and developers from around the world. Hosted by Jeff Blankenburg, Principal Technical Evangelist at Amazon Alexa.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg in his conversation with Rob Stanbridge as they discuss many of the successful games that have come out of his agency, Vocala, as well as his history evaluating comedians, and what the future of voice analytics will be!
Join host Jeff Blankenburg in his discussion with Shilp Agarwal as they discuss the future of voice commerce and how his company, Blutag, looks to the future of selling products using this technology.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg as he chats with João Paulo Alquéresabout his beginnings as a voice developer, his path to creating his agency Iara Digital, and what it means to be recognized as an Alexa Champion.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg for an interview with Angel Calvo, Director of Software Development for Alexa Smart Home. They discuss the future of devices in our homes, the ways that people use these devices, and some of the challenges that smart home devices present.
Pradeep Natarajan, Amazon principal applied scientist, discusses his work with Alexa, and the significance machine learning has had in the field computer vision and deep neural networks. He also covers his career, and his participation in the ICCV 2021 workshop "Instance-level recognition", which focused on artworks, landmarks, and products.
Host Jeff Blankenburg interviews Aaron Hsu from Blerp about the inspiration for creating his library of sound clips, how they integrate with different software, and the future of sounds.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg as he chats with Ashish Jha, one of the new Alexa Champions, about his path that led him to Alexa as a college student, and how it has shaped his career since graduation.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg as he talks with Abhishek Suthan about how Pulse Labs helps developers measure relevant interactions, sentiments, and end-to-end experiences from consumers within their natural environments.
Host Jeff Blankenburg chats with Jasha Droppo from the Alexa Speech team about his research, the foundations of speech synthesis technologies, and his rich history in the field.
Host Jeff Blankenburg chat with Alexa Champion Maaike Coppens about the future of voice technology, low-code solutions to creating voice experiences, and her path to becoming a Champion!
Join host Jeff Blankenburg for an interview with Mara Segal, where we cover her colorful background, her love of cookbooks, and the future of ambient computing in your kitchen!
Join host Jeff Blankenburg for an interview with Yang Liu, a Principal Scientist on the Alexa AI team. We discuss her educational background, her vast amount of published research, and her outlook on the future of this growing technology.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg for an interview with Rafael Sanchez. We dive into his history, his discovery of his passion for voice and Alexa, and how he is trying to shape the future of ordering food for your meals with Anycart.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg in an interview with Dyung Ngo that spans his departure from Vietnam, his history as a technologist, and his view of the future of healthcare and ambient computing.
Join host Jeff Blankenburg in a personal interview with Nataki Edwards as they discuss her background, the current state of hardware development and Alexa, and where she sees this technology in the future.
In this special episode, Jeff Blankenburg and Paul Cutsinger recap all of the big announcements from Alexa Live 2021.
Jeff Blankenburg has a deep discussion with Julia Hirschberg about what it means to be an Amazon Scholar, some of her research into computer language and speech, and the future of this technology.
Jeff Blankenburg chats with Chad Conway about Span, smart homes, and the future of ambient computing in our living spaces. You'll hear about the end of light switches as we know them.
Jeff Blankenburg discusses the advent of Alexa Video with Atif Khan, and the importance that video will play in the future of ambient computing.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Ariya Rastrow about his history with speech research and the advancements that make technology like Alexa possible.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Ian Freed about his voice based education company, Bamboo Learning. They chat about his rich history with Amazon, and the future of education with machine learning and ambient computing.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews two of the creators of Endel, which is an AI approach to relaxation, focus, and sleep.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Neha Monga about how Alexa can help you engage with social networks, and where this will lead in the future.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Nikko Strom about his early start with Alexa, and where he sees the technology heading in the future.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Adam Elman about the future of user interfaces, especially for voice.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Spyros Matsoukas about the science and research that he's working on for the future of Alexa.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Andrew Breen about the technology behind Alexa's text-to-speech engine, and how it all works.
Jeff Blankenburg interviews Rachel Jiang about the technology behind Alexa Health, and what the future of healthcare could look like in an ambient computing world.
Join Jeff and Justin as they interview Joel Farvault about building Alexa skills using Alexa Conversations.
Jeff interviews Liron Torres, and they talk about the future of voice in places like apartments, hotels, and even assisted living facilities.
Jeff interviews Julie Daniel Davis, and they talk about the future of voice in education, and the best ways to use Alexa in the classroom.
Jeff discusses the future of synthetic speech and speech recognition with Kayoko Yanagisawa, as well as the exciting research and invention that is happening for Alexa's future.
Jeff talks with Surbhi Rathore about where voice is headed, how Symbl.ai is helping developers get there, and what the future of voice and ambient computing could be.
Jeff discusses the future of automobiles and voice with Chris Wenneman, as well as the exciting research and invention that is happening with Alexa inside today's cars.
Jeff sits down with Yoelle Maarek to discuss the future of shopping on Alexa, and takes a behind the scenes look at what our research and science teams are working on.
Jeff Blankenburg sits with Gokhan Tur for a discussion about natural language understanding with Alexa, and the future of speech with artificial intelligence.
Jeff Blankenburg chats with Daniel Marcu about artificial intelligence, search, and the future of the industry.
Jeff Blankenburg chats with Dilek Hakkani-Tur about Alexa AI, the challenges of building a conversational intelligence, and a look to the future of this technology.
Jeff Blankenburg sits down with Aaron Wilson, from the Alexa Product Team to talk about what is happening with Alexa development, the tools, and a look to the future.
Jeff Blankenburg, Alexa's Principal Technical Evangelist, interviews Prem Natarajan, Vice President of Alexa Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Understanding about the current state of voice AI, and the future of talking to computers.
Jeff Blankenburg sits down with Manoj Sindhwani to discuss the future of voice, AI, and speech.