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Have you been following Bland.ai? They've just announced $16M in funding after emerging from stealth – bringing their total raise to $22M. Here's the first paragraph from their release: Today Bland AI, the platform automating phone calls for the enterprise using hyper-realistic AI agents, emerged from
I've been meaning to make sure I wrote about what the team at Play.ht have been creating. The company offers AI Text to Speech, AI Voice Cloning and a Voice Generation API – and I have to say, the demos I've tried are really, really good.
Back in June the team from Anthrophic posted an update previewing the introduction of 'Artifacts' as a new way to use Claude. As a premium user I've been seeing these appear and I've been finding them very helpful as I've been working
I'm a premium subscriber to ChatGPT. I have been for quite a while. It's been my default. I also use Pi on my phone, along with Perplexity. Claude too. Oh, and I'm a Copilot subscriber on my family Microsoft account (I couldn't
Following my post earlier this week on the topic of creating Vendor Beauty Parades, I have just updated the 18-page PDF guide that I routinely share with clients. I thought you might be interested to browse through it. Please feel free to share with colleagues. A brief overview: What is
When I'm advising clients in the Conversational AI space, I'm often challenged by executives to give them tangible, meaningful benefits that others have managed to achieve. Often, I talk about FTE redeployment opportunities – that is a key metric that many executives respond to positively. It'
LivePerson's podcast has just finished Season 2 with an episode featuring their CEO, John Sabino. I find John a highly engaging personality – he comes across very well on the company's podcast – and I think he'll be speaking to many executives when he uses the
I came across this post from the team at The CAI Company recently and thought it was worthwhile highlighting. Testing is business-critical when it comes to Conversational AI. I think we all know this. How to test... that's a key question and one that I've been
If you're thinking about making a move into the Conversational AI space – or, you're already running older generation 'decision tree' chatbots – and you'd like to get an idea of what's possible in today's world, I strongly recommend arranging
Sam Oliver, founder of OpenFi (the provider of SalesTalk AI) is an individual we've profiled a few times here on Conversational AI News. (See his recent interview and podcast). He's written an opinion piece for Unite.ai that I wanted to draw your attention to. He
Adnovum, the Swiss digital transformation service provider, is hiring a Conversational AI Consultant. I wanted to document this for two reasons. First, I know many readers are genuinely interested in new jobs that might be relevant for them or a colleague. Second, I think this is a trend we are
Congratulations to the team at Conversational AI leader, boost.ai, who announced yesterday that their AI virtual agents are now available on Salesforce's AppExchange. This is likely to be a game-changer for many brands that have already adopted Salesforce (and, in particular, Salesforce's Data Cloud). You&