Spruik: Recent Episodes
Kay Corry Aubrey
Using everyday language Kay Corry Aubrey interviews creative people who are developing technologies that impact our lives. Listen to these episodes to gain an understanding of these technologies, what they can do and what they can't do. Spruik means "get the word out".
Jamie Revelle, Director of User Experience Research and Accessibility at Express-Scripts talks about the work she and her team do. She also describes how they have integrated accessibility into Express-Script's product design and development process and the many aspects of accessibility addressed within their products.
Usability consultant and trainer Kay Corry Aubrey interviews Nathan Treloar, President and COO of Orbita, Inc. Orbita is a Boston-based company that creates AI-powered technology that allows healthcare organizations to create conversational bots that improve patient access to information. Nathan talks about Orbita's technology and the various way it's being used within the healthcare industry. He provides a common-sense (no hype) assessment of the maturity of voice technology today and where it can be reliably leveraged today. Nathan also describes his vision for where voice technology may go in the future. Kay recorded this podcast for students for my "Design for Usability in Healthcare" class within Northeastern University's Health Informatics program.
Audrey Arbeeny, founder of AudioBrain, talks with Kay Corry Aubrey about the art and science of sonic branding, which involves the strategic and consistent development of a sound experience for a brand. Audrey describes the rigorous methodology her company has created for creating a unique aural composition that combines music, voice and vibration that can be used to brand an organization, a product, an event, a person (basically any entity). AudioBrain's clients include XBox 360, the London Olympics, Whirlpool, and several medical device manufacturers. They have won several Emmy awards for their work. Audrey talks about the tremendous value of audio in health and wellness and the overall trends that suggest how this medium will become an integrating force within technology in the near future.
Canary Speech is a Provo, Utah-based company that has developed FDA approved technology to detects diseases and other human conditions through human speech. Their product uses machine learning to diagnose and track conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's, PTSD and depression. In this episode Canary Speech CEO Henry O'Connell talks with Kay Corry Aubrey about his company's technology, how it works, the science behind it and his vision for the future. He describes how this technology uses biomarkers to analyze language at the "sub language" level for early detection and management of devastating diseases.
Michelle Mullenax is the Product and UX Lead for Innovation at the American Red Cross and Emerson Sklar is Director of Voice Solutions at Applause. In this first podcast (of two) we talked about the work they featured in their Voice Summit 2019 Presentation "Giving You the Voice to Make a Difference". We discussed the American Red Cross vision for voice technology, the voice assistant skills they have developed, the processes they use to gather user feedback on the skills they've developed and their vision for the future. You can learn more about Michelle on her LinkedIn profile, and about Emerson on his LinkedIn profile.
In this podcast interview with Kay Corry Aubrey, Marios Anapliotis, co-founder at Bouquet.ai, discusses the capabilities of his company's flagship product Aristotle. Aristotle is a chatbot driven by artificial intelligence that integrates with hundreds of systems such as Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, and SAP and allows users to get immediate answers on company KPIs that would formerly take hours of research and analysis. You can learn more about Marios through his LinkedIn profile. and about Aristotle on the Bouquet.ai Web site.
Alexandros and talk about his company Behavioral Signals which has developed a product based on Artificial Intelligence that reads the emotional aspects of voice. We discuss the science around the richness of how humans communicate that extends beyond language.