When Bespoken made its first introduction to the world in Aug 2016, we declared we were going to help you build Alexa skills faster and better. Remember this? We are happy to introduce bespoken.tools (bst for short), a set of open source tools built specifically for ASK development. The goal…
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The Alexa Conference 2018 and 15+ Voice-first Conferences to Add to Your Calendar
This year has been deemed the year of voice by experts spanning a plethora of industries. In a short amount of time, researchers, analysts, the c-suite, and even grandparents have been exposed to the power of voice-first technology. As the march of voice continues, there are a number of events…
What’s New With the Bespoken Proxy (bst) and CLI Tools
Hello, everybody. Some time ago in the far away land of 2016 we released the Bespoken CLI to help you develop Alexa skills locally, making testing and debugging far easier and faster. Well, since then a number of helpful improvements have been made to the Bespoken Proxy bst proxy; the…
Voice Is Eating The World
We create software for monitoring and testing voice apps. We consider our job to be a humble but necessary one, and for people that enjoy troubleshooting and automation, one that is filled with many sublime pleasures. But sometimes, we feel the need to step back, take a look around, and…
11 New Bespoken Dashboard Features From Our Users – We’re All Ears
Customer feedback is crucial for every software company, and over the past few months our team has been busy gathering thoughts and listening to our users as they navigate the voice app development space. If you’re an active member of the Alexa Slack community, it’s likely our own founder and…
How to Think About Voice App Performance and Why It’s Important Now
There are frequent discussions in voice technology circles about voice app performance. The definition of performance in these conversations usually drifts toward user experience – how effective is the app is at fulfilling a user’s intent and the rate of re-engagement or retention. These are all important metrics. However, we…
Build an Alexa Skill with Bespoken in Boulder, Austin, and Lima
As voice developers and software engineers, we live and breathe voice-first technology every day. And with the recent onslaught of voice powered hardware and software announcements from Amazon and Google, the industry will be hard to ignore even with non-developers. We know most of you interact with us via the…
The Future of Voice On The Voicebot Podcast
In episode 6 of The Voicebot Podcast, our very own founder and CEO John Kelvie joins Bret Kinsella, editor of voicebot.ai for a conversation about voice apps, voice diagnostics, and the future of voice. As longtime acquaintances working in similar spaces for over a decade, listen in on this candid…
Hello, It’s Me – Bespoken
Welcome to the new look of Bespoken. We still offer the same tools, but now they are not part of the name. Today, the Bespoken brand goes animal style. As in, we are excited to reveal a new logo and website featuring our favorite digital creature, the Bespoken Llama. To…
Alexa Dev Chat Podcast Interviews Bespoken
It was a pleasure to appear on Alexa and Echo Chief Evangelist Dave Isbitski’s Podcast, Alexa Dev Chat (SoundCloud | iTunes). Bespoken came to Dave’s attention as part of the weekly Developer Office Hours for Alexa. I enjoyed coming on the podcast to discuss how Bespoken is helping Alexa developers…