Before joining Bespoken, and after nearly 20 years working in the Seattle technology space, Guy Borgford worked in business development and strategic marketing roles in digital publishing, digital agencies, and software design and engineering. From heading up partner strategy and marketing at RollingStone.com and Rhapsody to leading new business development…
After three full days of sessions, introductions, conversations, and selfies at VOICE Summit 2018 last week, we walked away with three important takeaways. 1. Voice – Past, Present, Future The enthusiasm and scale of VOICE Summit 2018 was amazing. We went from a small group of founders a few months…
Proceeds to Enable the Voice AI Testing Software Company to Add Features and Expand Sales and Marketing Lima, Peru – July 12, 2018 – Bespoken Holdings, the worldwide leader in automated testing and monitoring for voice interactive artificial intelligence, announced today that it has completed its seed funding round. The…
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…
Check out the Voice First Events of 2019 right here. 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
