35 Burst results for "2021"
AP News Radio
Ruling clears way for Purdue Pharma to settle opioid claims, protect Sacklers from lawsuits
"A federal court ruling has cleared the way for Purdue pharma, the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids. The plan approved by the circuit Court of Appeals in New York calls for members of the wealthy Sackler family to give up ownership of Purdue. It would become its own company with its profits used to fight the opioid crisis. Members of the Sackler family would contribute up to $6 billion over time. They also would be protected from lawsuits over the toll of opioids, even though they did not file for bankruptcy. The ruling reverses a 2021 ruling that found bankruptcy court judges did not have the authority to approve a settlement that would offer bankruptcy protections for those who have not filed for bankruptcy. The settlement must still be approved by a bankruptcy court judge. I'm Mike Hempen
AP News Radio
The day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison
"The disgraced CEO of health technology company theranos begins her stint in a federal prison today. Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to begin her 11 year federal sentence at a women's prison camp in Bryan, Texas, Holmes was sentenced in November for overseeing a blood testing hoax that claimed theranos technology could quickly scan for diseases and other problems with just a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick. She'll be leaving behind two young children, a son born in July 2021, a few weeks before the start of her trial, and a three month old daughter who was conceived after a jury found her guilty on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022, investor and fellow theranos executive ramesh sunny balwani was convicted of 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy, and already has started serving his nearly 13 year sentence in a Southern California prison. I'm Donna water
AP News Radio
Jan. 6 rioters are raking in thousands in donations. Now the US is coming after their haul
"Some January 6th rioters are raking in thousands of dollars in donations, now the Justice Department is coming after that money. For those who stormed the capitol on January 6th, 2021, it's not just a prison sentence they face, hefty fines are also going along with it. That's because prosecutors appear to be ramping up efforts to prevent them from profiting from their participation. The Justice Department, in some cases, questioning whether the money they have been raising goes to their legal defense when they're getting government funded lawyers. Daniel Goodwin, who participated in the January 6th riots and was convicted, promoted a website to raise money, the feds now want him to give up more than $25,000. I'm Julie Walker.
The Dan Bongino Show
Michael Loadenthal: Asking for Money to Censor Conservatives
"And this meeting they're talking about how exactly if I could just sum it up how they can censor their political opponents conservatives They don't even talk about it and coded language The strangest thing about this is that this group is working with the DHS Now the grant they got is after this When I'm about to play the audio which is shocking it's from 2021 I have two bits from it right They submitted this audio video to the GHS to get a grant which according to this Fox News report came in 2022 and the school didn't notice inclusion of the seminar and its grant application So I want to be clear because I don't want to explain that in a little bit of confusing manner in my apologies This is such an important story I don't want to lose it This is a bunch of people on tape talking about how to censor conservatives sending the tape to the government to get money and the government then giving them a grant to censor conservatives Got it Easy explained that way Here it is Here's cut one It's about 20 seconds Here's Michael lodon doll Suggesting that they're trying to censor them conservatives that this may be illegal you should send us some money and that he's spoken to the FBI about it This is crazy Check this out To go back to your question about what can liberals do And I feel like it's a trait and simple answer but you can give money That's always really appreciated We have legal defense funds because we get trouble A lot of the things we're doing are illegal What I'm saying what I'm telling you a lot of it involves breaking the law And this is what the FBI will say I've had many conversations with the FBI about this So nuts This is so insane That this guy was like this is amazing I saw this on heritage's Twitter feed this morning And I'm having again it's a quote my friend Neil from the Secret Service How do you get your arms around that It's not that he said it It's that this was apparently in a submission to DHS
AP News Radio
Can’t get Taylor Swift tickets? See all of Swift’s eras on display at this costume exhibit
"Olive Taylor Swift's eras are on display in a costume exhibit in New York. Swift's era's tour is selling out stadiums around the country. I promise that you'll never find another like me. For anyone needing their Taylor Swift fix and don't have a ticket. The second floor of the museum of arts and design features dozens of swift costumes and objects. Tim Rogers is museum director. Two of the iconic costumes in this exhibition are from the shake it off video. We have the ballerina costume and we also have the cheerleader costume. The centerpiece is a red wedding dress swift war in a 2021 video. Another of her costumes is very heavy. The bejeweled costume and while I can't tell you exactly how much it weighs, I can tell you that when we were putting it on the mannequins, it took more than one person. Greta Meyers is a swiftie and a fashion student. I know I'll be okay if Taylor Swift has gone through it. The goal of the exhibit to explore how Taylor Swift uses clothing and props to tell stories like a vocabulary. I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Judge halts South Carolina’s new stricter abortion law until state Supreme Court review
"South Carolina's newly signed abortion law has been temporarily halted by a judge. Judge Clifton Newman's ruling sends the new law that bans most abortions in South Carolina around 6 weeks of pregnancy to be reviewed. Planned Parenthood sued almost immediately after the bill was signed, a judge Newman said it would end up before the state Supreme Court anyway. The law is similar to one in 2021 that was struck down after the justices ruled three to two that it violated the state constitution's right to privacy lawmakers say the new law includes technical tweaks meant to appeal to justice John few, who wrote in his previous opinion that legislators didn't show that they did any work to determine if 6 weeks was enough time for a woman to know she was pregnant. The halt means the state reverts to a restriction at around 20 weeks for now. Since that decision justice Kay Hearn retired, making the South Carolina high court the only one in the country without a woman on the bench. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Rights groups slam severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as 'crime against humanity'
"Two top rights groups have denounced the severe Taliban restrictions on Afghan women as a crime against humanity in a new report, Amnesty International and the international commission for juris or ICJ said the Taliban's treatment of women or girls in Afghanistan could constitute as gender based persecution, gender based persecution is listed as a crime against humanity by the International Criminal Court, the report underscored how the Taliban cracked down on women alongside other mistreatments such as imprisonment and torture could qualify as gender persecution when the Taliban seized power in August 2021, they promised a moderate rule, however they started to enforce restrictions on women and girls soon after their takeover. I am Karen Chammas
Mark Levin
Brent Bozell: The TVTP Grant Program Is in Full Force Under Biden
"During the Obama administration there was a program that was begun called the targeted violence and terrorism prevention grant program This was run out of the Department of Homeland Security meant to root out domestic tracking and root out domestic terrorism There were Republicans and conservatives who were very cautious about this and their skeptical because they believed that this administration would be the Obama administration Could use it against Republicans against conservatives Well ultimately it was done When Donald Trump became president he got rid of it It came back the program came back at the end of his administration And now it's in full force under the Biden administration So everyone is trying to find out from the Department of Homeland Security What they're up to on my front entity is it lies to its teeth mayorkas goes to Congress Lies through his teeth about the border and other manner of things So you can't trust him So we looked at this program We found that they have distributed some $40 million to 80 different groups on this front We asked 31 of them What it was that they were doing with public money Like DHS they were unresponsive They wouldn't tell what they're doing Well we found out at least one case so far What we have found out really mark is shocking Let me go through this In December of 2021 the university of Dayton in Ohio which just happens to be Jordan's district put on a seminar On domestic violence through one of their programs This is what they had on there They had one speaker who compared Donald Trump to Pol Pot The genocide leader A Cambodia
AP News Radio
50 million people trapped in 'modern slavery' — report - DW (English)
"Account for over half the estimated 50 million people living in modern slavery. The reports by a rights group found that 6 members of the group of 20 richest nations have the largest number of people in modern slavery. The walk free foundation classifies modern slavery in its report as either false labor or forced marriage. In their report, India tops the list with 11 million people followed by China with 5.8 million. Russia, Indonesia, and turkey follow and in 6th place is the U.S., with 1.1 million people in modern slavery, last September, a UN report estimated that 50 million people were living in modern slavery. 28 million in forced labor and 22 million in forced marriage by the end of 2021,
AP News Radio
Chinese hackers targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, Microsoft warns
"Microsoft says state backed Chinese hackers have been targeting critical U.S. infrastructure and could be planning to disrupt critical communications between the U.S. and Asia during future crises. Microsoft says China's targets include sites in Guam, where the U.S. has a major military presence. The software giant says the state sponsored hackers have been active since mid 2021. It says organizations in the communications manufacturing utility transportation construction, maritime information technology
AP News Radio
Amanda Gorman's poem for Biden's inauguration banned by Florida school
"A complaint from a parent is landed a poem written for President Biden's inauguration on a restricted list at a Florida elementary school. It's not clear what in the poem the hill we climb by Amanda Gorman is objectionable to a Miami Lake's parent, but daily Salinas says she doesn't favor eliminating or censoring any books, but she does want materials to be appropriate for students. Florida's governor Ron DeSantis has made headlines with his policies that promote books censorship. The nation's first national youth poet laureate then 17 year old Amanda Gorman, said her poem, which was read January 20th, 2021, was intended to be a message of hope, without ignoring the evidence of Discord and division in the country. In response to the restrictions at the school. She says she's gutted and concerned that authorities are robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
South Carolina ready to renew abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy after Senate vote
"South Carolina's governor is promising to sign into law a ban on most abortions after around 6 weeks of pregnancy. The state Senate approved the bill Tuesday, and Republican governor Henry McMaster promised to sign it into law as soon as possible. The bill restores a 2021 ban that took effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned roe V wade last year, but the ban was overturned by South Carolina's highest court because it violated the state constitution's right to privacy. Republican state senator Richard cash. Certainly believed the majority of South Carolina's carolinians value life. Republican senator Katrina sheeley offered a 12 week compromise, saying 6 weeks doesn't give women enough time to make a decision. They've got their mindset what they want. They think they know what women want. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic says as soon as the governor signs the measure, it will file a request for a temporary restraining order. I'm Donna Warner
The Breakdown
Binance Accused of Co-Mingling Customer Funds With Company Revenue
"Hello friends. Well, this morning as I was prepping the show, news broke from Reuters. Walter Bloomberg on Twitter said, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance co -mingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021. In breach of U .S. financial rules that require customer money to be keep separate, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. So let's go through this, let's try to get a sense of how serious this is, let's see if there is another Sam -type situation on our hands. First, let's talk the accusation. Well, it's pretty much right there in the headline, Binance co -mingling customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021, the sourcing, three sources familiar with the matter and Reuters, but let's try to get a few more details. From the Reuters piece, quote, one of the sources, a person with direct knowledge of Binance Group's finances, said the sums ran into billions of dollars and co -mingling happened almost daily in accounts the exchange held at U .S. lender Silvergate Bank. Reuters couldn't independently verify the figures or the frequency, but the news agency reviewed a bank record showing that on February 10th, 2021, Binance mixed $20 million from a corporate account with $15 million from an account that received customer money. Reuters found no evidence that Binance client monies were lost or taken. So there's a bunch that's important here. One is that Reuters couldn't verify the figures in total and that they really only had this one particular bank record showing a mixing. Now, what did Binance say? Well, in a statement to Reuters, they obviously denied this. Spokesperson Brad Jaff said, these accounts were not used to accept user deposits. They were used to facilitate user purchases. There was no co -mingling at any time because these are 100 % corporate accounts. Reuters goes on.
AP News Radio
Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? For one thing, doctors don't take them seriously
"Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race, and sometimes it's because of racial bias. Angelica and Anthony alliance are sisters from Birmingham, Alabama, and they both had traumatic pregnancies, Angelica became pregnant in 2019 at her son was due the following January, Angelica, who worked at the university of Alabama at Birmingham, says she experienced severe pain during her pregnancy and in October checked into the hospital affiliated with the university. She says she was treated for constipation but her pain persisted. I got in the bed, I felt this strong pain from vaginal area all the way up to my chest. I screamed. That was literally the beginning of literally them constantly leaving me in pain. Angelica says her pleas for help were shrugged off even after vomiting bile, and she was repeatedly sent home from the hospital because doctors and nurses claimed she was experiencing normal contractions. She says she wasn't taken seriously until a searing pain shot through her body and her baby's heart rate plummeted she was rushed into delivery two months before her due date, Angelica says she was on life support for three days and almost didn't make it. It's scary knowing that I could have died, you know? My mom, my sister, my ex-husband, would have to be, you know, taking care of my son and I wouldn't be. And even in my records, I think they have it down that I have PTSD with that hospital. Angelica lions experience is a reflection of the medical racism bias and inattentive care that many black Americans endure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S. 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021. That's almost three times the rate for white women and black babies are more likely to die and be born prematurely, setting the stage for health issues that could follow them through their lives, black Americans health issues have long been ascribed to genetics or behavior when actuality and array of circumstances were linked to racism, restrictions on where people could live and a historical lack of access to care, Angelica's sister and Sonia says when it came time for her to have her baby where she developed complications after two previous miscarriages, her doctor referred her to the same hospital where Angelica almost died. My heart kind of dropped when you said because I didn't want to go to that hospital. From which she had already gone through, I was traumatized. Alabama has a dark history of medical racism, in the 1800s, J Marion Sims, known as the father of gynecology, performed surgical experiments on enslaved black women. He did not use anesthesia. There's a statue of Sims outside the Alabama state capitol. I'm Donna water
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Paul Tudor Jones Says Bitcoin Has a 'Real Problem' in the U.S.
"Going to talk about Paul Tudor Jones. He was kind of one of those early Bitcoin bulls from the world of traditional finance back in 2021. Now he has some fresh comments on Bitcoin in the U.S. facing regulatory headwinds and quote real problems given the climate in D.C.. We're going to talk about that and more. He also made some comments about the macroeconomic picture, given that he thinks that the fed is going to stop all those interest rate hikes that have been suppressing activity and markets, but we'll talk to that second. All right, the Bitcoin comment. I have a thought, but I want to throw it to Wendy on this one. What do you think, PT was one of those initial profits of the chat file world who got into Bitcoin not long ago? What do you think about these latest comments? I don't think anybody is a profit when it comes to crypto and Bitcoin. I mean, people, when they started using Bitcoin originally, like way, way back in the day, it was meant to make secure private transactions online for specific things. So and things have evolved the narrative continues to change. But I do like to see some guys from traditional finance coming into the space. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. And I do agree with a lot of his thoughts that crypto is going to surge due to the current economic state, especially in the United States of America. And when I say surge, you guys, I'm not saying it's going to happen overnight. I'm not saying it's going to happen now. I am simply saying it takes time. But number should potentially go up. I mean, I got a counter take on this one. I mean, this kind of commentary kind of puts him in opposition to prominent Bitcoin maxis such as Michael saylor, who have been saying that, hey, the regulatory stance in the U.S. toward Bitcoin specifically has actually been favorable through this crackdown, right? You have SEC chair Gary gensler saying, hey, Bitcoin. It's the one true commodity. It doesn't have an issuer. It's decentralized enough relative to Ethereum and others out there in the market, which may be more securities like. So I think that this kind of puts him in opposition to what, in my opinion, may be the more informed take relative to the regulatory conversations going on in D.C. right now.
AP News Radio
FBI broke rules in scouring foreign intelligence on Jan. 6 riot, racial justice protests, court says
"The FBI says past searches of a foreign intelligence database broke standards, but reforms have been made, I'm Lisa dwyer. FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the insurrection at the U.S. capitol on January 6th, 2021, and racial justice protests in 2020. That's according to a newly released, heavily blacked out court order. Senior FBI officials attributed the majority of the violations to confusion and a lack of common understanding about the querying standards and said that the bureau has made significant changes since then. The problems could nonetheless complicate FBI and Justice Department efforts to receive congressional reauthorization of a warrantless surveillance program the government officials say is needed to counter terrorism, espionage, and international cybercrime. I'm Lisa dwyer
Mark Levin
FBI Whistleblower Marcus Allen Testifies to House Judiciary Committee
"The Democrat party is the party of totalitarianism They're simply no question about it In every respect in every respect Marcus Allen is an FBI whistleblower In part here's what he said Cut one go Despite my history of unblemished service to the United States the FBI suspended my security clearance accusing me of actually being disloyal to my country This outrageous and insulting accusation is based on unsubstantiated accusations that I hold conspiratorial views regarding the events of January 6th 2021 that I allegedly sympathize with criminal conduct I do not I was not in Washington D.C. on January 6th played no part in the events of January 6th and I condemn all criminal activity that occurred Instead it appears that I was retaliated against because I forwarded information in my superiors and others that questioned the official narrative of the events of January 6th As a result I was accused of promoting conspiratorial views and unreliable information Because I did this the FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States Since I was suspended there's been a dearth of communication from the FBI with interactions seemingly only being forced by actions from my council or members of Congress This gentleman is African American not that that matters but it matters to the Democrats But it didn't matter In the sense that they didn't come to his defense they trashed him
Ethereum Daily
Visa Experiments With ERC-4337 Account Abstraction
"Its own ERC four three three 7 account abstraction experimental paymaster contracts on the gorley testnet, first proposed by vitalik in 2021, ERC four three three 7 is a standard that introduces an implementation for account obstruction at the application level account abstraction refers to using contract functionality to improve user experience on user accounts in a report Visa showcases to use cases for ERC four three three 7, including a paymaster contract for fully sponsored transactions and a paymaster contract for accepting ERC 20 tokens as payment for gas fees, paymasters are contracts that can sponsor gas fees for contract accounts and are responsible for setting their own fee logic. Account obstruction infrastructure provider pimlico deployed in ERC 20 paymaster, allowing smart contract wallet providers to accept tokens as payment for gas fees, Pam that goes ERC 20 paymaster initially supports USD C for gas payments on any EVM chains supported by chain link, support for additional tokens can be added upon request. The pimlico paymaster is also open-source entirely on chain and has been audited by another month developers can use pimlico's TypeScript SDK to integrate support for token gas payments. Takes a 10% fee by default on each transaction. The project joins stack up and alchemy in launching paymaster services. Curve
Podcast Movement 2021
"2021" Discussed on Podcast Movement 2021
"It was groups gathering to watch people burned at the stake during the salem witch trials or millions of people watching making a murderer on net flicks. We're drawn to these stories and everyone has their own reasons. Why maybe it's pure curiosity. Maybe you want to learn something from these experiences. You can avoid them yourself. Maybe one help or maybe you just how big this genre is and want to cash in. I'm not saying. I think it's right or ethical but this is and has been our reality for centuries we may think we've evolved past it but we really haven't now believe it or not. I really don't care about your intentions in this space because after trying to bet trying my best to convert people away from the dark side if you will. I learned the intentions are not something i can change if you can hear my story if you can see other families of victims on the internet begging for help and you don't care that something inside of you that i will not be able to change today but the thing with intentions is you may feel like they're this deep dark secret inside of you but they will come to the surface so no matter your intentions with true crime content. You you make just remember that a good deal of your audience will most likely see right through your work to those intentions in. My advice is to respect your audience by being honest with them. Are you doing tour for a show. Just you can buy a new car awesome. Let your audience know that. I bet most of them will be thrilled for you. What they will be thrilled about is if you say that you're in this to help the victims and the families but then you only help yourself and before you know it. You're on instagram with your new. Bmw they're gonna see right through that now. A great way to avoid all this headache is to actually just have good intentions with your work. That doesn't mean you have to work yourself to the bone and donate every dollar to charity. That's not what i'm saying. What i'm saying is that if you don't have good intentions in this space be ready for a lot of people to call you out on
VOICE Global 2021
"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"It strikes me when i've seen the different voice platforms and this isn't surprising. But they were kind built with a little bit of a web mentality in mind like this is a defined. ui flow the kind of defines. How i do things. And so i built this kind of framework with that kind of thinking in line. I don't blame. The people did it because everyone would do the same thing. Voices new but really voices so dot defined so open. People say things out of order. They can go back they. Can you know we do it. All the time in our conversations and i it feels to me like the existing frameworks sometimes get awfully rigid. Is how they want you to to things that that that then you end up writing an awful lot of code and i to. I hate writing plumbing coat yet. I want something that takes away a bunch of that plumbing for me and then right right interesting stuff we're still with any of the platforms writing a bunch of plumbing code because they haven't been optimized but we're still in early days. I mean look at all. Just go back to your example of the early web alan. It was pretty bad. It was pretty hard in the nineties to write web applications. And it's yeah people people who weren't there at the time don't don't remember what it was like. Yeah they don't and so you've got to give it time to mature and and understand and it's a completely different medium to and so there's different needs there <hes>. And i was. I was thinking when you're talking about a set of reasonable components. I had a dream reusable source components. Yes very big fan of open source. I think that would be a great <hes>. Great contribution to the voice community such as snl markup. But you know it's interesting like i wonder if we'll get to a point if you look on the web world and that i mean you can actually go out and buy components that do things and i haven't seen that so much invoice. I know there's like some believe there's a website that launch fairly recently that has a bunch of ap l. examples and actually selling some. I thought that was really interesting. I thought that was encouraging to the industry. If someone could find a way to monetize and create something where there's these reusable components that can be used and they don't have to come from the platform providers me as an independent third party. Developer can create them. Obviously yes beautiful to be open source but also okay. If they're a little closed they're being sold. I mean not just that will open it up a lot and if you look at the web and mobile. There's just so many frameworks it's almost. What framework do i start with.
VOICE Global 2021
"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"Are sports. Bran were sports organizations. Sports club anybody's ever worked in. The sports industry. Knows that you know. We operate as a small business. Our resources review we are strapped. A little bit in terms of how many people are actually in our organization. Even though i think we re tend to lean the little heavier on our side rightfully so. I think we're doing a lot everywhere but we also want to be mindful. We can't hire alexa amazon alexa developers. We can't google news feed developers and <hes>. You know i would love to hire them to be honest with you but at the end of the day you know we try to partner with vendors. Who help us be as nimble as possible so that we can bring that vendor versatility and at which allows us to play freely an truly focused on our content strategy versus thinking about. How do we program this. How do we not program. Business overall <unk>. Thinking about strategy. The one thing that we realized is <hes>. We didn't want to just do something as <hes>. As as this kind of luted to is we have podcasts distribution channels every weekend absolutely just put all of our podcasts right on our voice channels and be done with it and we would kind of check off that box i think for us what was important is how do we program nuances voice interactions and so have you where we can ultimately start having conversational content without their so if a fan is asking for x. y. they're able to not only get xyz but also taken down a path of potentially learning more about additional content and things of that sort <hes>. You know my kids play with the disney app. All the time. And mickey comes on and he'll he'll kind of go and ask some trivia questions that my kids are so engaged. Because they're talking with mickey and they like mickey and i'm every week the contents fresh different right so <hes>. We wanted the ability to program such content without having the you know having a higher additional engineers to help us have program. Weakened weak out. We'll to the philadelphia eagles voice assistance. Here's some things you can say. Good storm you've been saying play. The latest eagles insider podcast flexibility to program really quickly is really what we're looking for and and and our voice is really what costs you know. We'll talk more about the product. I'm sure but you know. We love that flexibility. Beloved nimble nests for rebel. To do what we wanna do week over week. We changed certain. Uh strategic points depending on men's losses in our team is performing what they're doing and what they're not doing all the different nuances the program very easily and really best the solution. We're looking for
VOICE Global 2021
"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"We have a new report coming couple of weeks time in partnership with our friends at google will show that it. We're seeing a lot more people using voice across multiple different platforms while they're doing that in mobile in that call and of say at a small speaker animal tradition traditional sense. Even though it's not been that long for its tradition. I think <hes>. You mentioned that of the drive through experience as well so one of the receipt of the pandemic has been the impact. It's had on people. Wanting to drive through news takeaway business obviously fall. Moore's been unable to spend time installs. What do you see the opportunity for voice when it comes to place on the move in the car and overseeing the drive through in the future because it's a large and growing pause mcdonald's business by nationally. Yeah it's such an important offices such <unk>. You you'll know. Show everyone what you will. Mcdonald's kinda you know. He's the leader on dry for <unk>. A hugely busy during the pandemic as we reopened we will saying kind of those accused the published on abc news etc. I am and that's something that we we need to continue driving as a business during that reopening period. I think it was lost nigerian time. I actually went to work in one of my local restaurants. And not because you know. It's been a long time since i've been kind of on the ground in the field like that and we looked opportunities to try and make that experience better. I'm <unk> <unk>. Comes to mind was how we can use the my on apps i yeah having customers passengers <unk>. Reordering on the mobile app and website. Pay meant they can skip the old point on the cashier. Windy mainly we could just find on delivery of that food so that really sped up the dry for experience. Then kind of translate that into voice and how powerful that can like if you've got alexa siri and google assistant in 'cause <unk>. Secular off the happens isn't hind but like you say it's in the it's michael got into the drive through. Tell us a little bit while you see that going. Yes i like. I said if you have him if you have a good list and will. There's a top of voice products in your car than is dislike. Having one of those dr fru ordering in your car that you can have your family toolkit wrote a two ahead of riding on but donald side you could be on a motorway. Heading heading to a mcdonalds. A savvy station or you could just allen a day trip employees will. The family members are interacting with voice building their ruler so the point the arrive at the restaurant you can then seamlessly glide through the dry free on. You're just my skipping. The order point and the payment window guiding t collection win or even skip the dry food together and i mentioned clicking staff. Previously that can a new product for us is a collection going importance.
VOICE Global 2021
"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"Of the programs. He put together very quickly <hes>. Would premise started was a food assistance. Program i'll be delivered through a little over three point. Two million meals out within the timespan a may <hes>. In july two <hes>. Older americans who were struggling to be able to food in the pantry and we're able to respond very quickly one of the tools that us from technology perspective is in fact voice <hes>. As many of you may know we have a platform connected to me which is built entirely on alexa. Google that allows for war a senior with their smart speakers and through with your programs. Where we i identify that folks were in fact. Struggling would be able to attitude into your access to the supermarkets for instance call early in march in april. A lot of these supermarkets started closing <unk>. The ability to access food is very very difficult and boys. Technology was one of the even always allows identify folks <hes>. The needed assistance in able to quickly deliver <hes>. Those kneels to <hes>. The folks that he did well certainly <hes> certainly necessary. Let's talk a little bit about the adoption. So when you're able to put a voice assistant in with a senior that has you know that the really has a need to be able to access services or goods or other other kinds of support. How has that. How's that process going. And how well our seniors able to adopt voice technology today and then let's talk about you know where where we'd like to see it. Go in the future so we were honestly very surprised as as <hes>. As many organizations we have been a testing boy so looking for ways able use voice in that effort has gone on for several years now in the fourth year of implementing voice technologies in our solutions predominantly for social isolation. Be able to have seniors interact. Not only with advice like alexa also would each other at through voice adoption has been surprisingly so options. Double edged sword right it once seniors learn how to be able to use a device like alexa or being used voice on your phone. We find that that comes their preferred megan up communications and being able to use interact with with technology. We have seniors. Who the only voice they actually here is the voice of <unk>. Alexa voice of out of google during the day which is which is sad but at the same time luring able to communicate those with with alexa or google. I'm literally they if we wanted to take those devices fact who could never get back so once name the technology it becomes very much permanent. Lives for many reasons right <hes>. You know taxes. Small for instance state writings and opponent is effective in many ways but of voices certainly <hes>. <unk> freeing from a from a string perspective also <hes>. Need to use of your hands and being able to just use voice able to <hes>. <hes> perform tasks to get updates to its fourth has been <hes>. Has been a need of seniors. In recent fly day they thought technology <hes>. the very very quickly <hes>. It's also used for medicare giving perspective be checking in on loved ones notifications and google patients in alexa. Allow people to check in under loved. Wants to voice and he be able to tell their stories and once they have that free media i have the worry added devices. Typically that they have to look at <hes>. We find that the seniors again very quickly. That technology
VOICE Global 2021
"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"So with regards to interfacing with customers out there <hes>. If i'm i'm looking for a flight or maybe i want a book light and i want to use my off. The shelf assistant <hes>. Let's talk a little bit about that interface and the the end customer. Okay <hes>. i would say like <hes>. What we kurt. We have a chat bot in sitting cafe. Kathy pacific talking musical variety. It is also <unk>. Mobile app so away. Business to ultimately like a frequently asked questions <unk>. Crushes related to check in change booking and baggage allowance even a even <unk>. Load the operations related question such as like sparring airline miles you name it and and but i think what i want to share or abou- easter i think it gives a chat bots strategy. I think this is something that could be useful. Awful other corporates absolutely definitely. Let's talk about that. Yeah yeah so we're talking about won't talk about how we occurred positioning chat bots coronation that you i and so what we is. What the chad does that objectives. First of all because we won't talk about automation white. So we wanna be able to lower operating costs of our contact centers right. How can we not talk about reducing agents. How can we juice the unnecessary contact with customers. So that the agent can handle more complicated cases malkani hacks case right right not to provide that to a satisfaction could agents so they're actually doing jobs and also provide a service quality and the second objective is how can we move on any obstacle in the customer journey at preflight and posts so that the customer can can get converted faster and <hes>. So though so in terms in terms of strategic planning we have created this servicing funnel concept. <hes> pham south surgeries the mobile app and also website. Where debate where people actually like a search for flights and do check in a managed at brookings two in the lowest dream <hes>. The human agents the actual call so imagine like before chat bot defunding goes from the south surfaces and live chat and the contact center agent <hes>. Handling the car right and the low what gets in the funnel the higher the cost of resolution so the outcome that we are looking at chief by placing a i in the middle of funnel is not about <hes> that we want to cannibalize our feature. I mean i mean kim busted features in our digital platforms each properties or to replace the agents the angle they were looking at. How can we create hominy liking the fundamental <hes>. That when we put a chat bot in the middle what what we want you to do that. Too at the edge point that determines would issue can be resolved effectively
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"Interesting because there are a conic brands going back to the sixties at had a sonic identity associated with them that. I don't think people really understood what was happening at that time. And and now if you go four to today i mean sonic identity is is everything because audios playing such a huge role in our lives. How much have you seen this industry. Sort of take hold and you've led a lot of this. I mean you. Pioneer this industry in many ways starting eighteen years ago. How's it evolved in in the last eighteen years and do you feel like brands are starting to really understand. You know why you founded on your brain and your core mission. Well i just felt that there was a were about maybe six companies at that time. The twenty five years ago twenty six years ago. That were doing sonic branding intentional audio and it was funny because i found an article <hes>. Cleaning my office and it was written in nineteen ninety eight and it's everything that we're doing now. It's more than your logo. It's more than you're jingle. it's your call center. It's your voice and was fortunate to work with brands like ibm. Ma like microsoft that that got it that you really it. I had that. I think i can actually remember the tones <hes>. From from that laptop and and so there were from the design management institute <hes>. I felt it was really important for me to be there. Because i wanted to learn so i was the only one out with the owner of the company. I worked with at the time. That was doing sonic branding. We stood out. This was my audience. Ma'am and this is where. I got an introduction <hes>. Ordinary me joe. Joe meet audrey <hes>. He's running a branding conference. She does sonic branding <hes>. That's where i met people at microsoft. We'll tell you depth during the xbox three sixty and it was my foundation. And i was fortunate. That url powell kind of took me under his wing and always pointed out the work that we were doing and that was my foundation
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"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"Looking back at the time fifteen twenty years ago when we had newspapers of radio and and the way that we consumed if nation was absolutely not personal like dissociation. Boss have fast. I'm flipping through the newspaper at the age of of nokia of having a single app. That does everything like snake. Was the only game you ever needed. So it's a logical process in the missiles space. You have created personal station. You go to google you search for something you'd be presented with outcome you're being presented with us -ment with things might like and the same process what happened for audio obviously so rather than just having snake of course people to have more games more services more steaming soon as more information and they also want to have information. It's always talk radio. They want the information that they really want to hear. I want to hear about by munich. But i'm not the only one wants to hear about by munich. But it's very limited in the predation wants to about by munich. Someone wants the about chelsea. Someone wants to out american football. And which i don't particularly fancy because i just don't get it and i think that's very mutual football sarah south ables bass anyways but but having a personalized information just means that that it becomes more useful to me and and the same same step from newspaper to personalized information on smartphone will happen from talk radio to order bruce implying. Tom
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"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"Would hope we start to see more intent based queries for the actual general assistance <unk>. Googles of the world where are no longer asking acknowledged based queries like hey hotels april tower. It's i'm hungry right. It's more of an intention and we start to see that consumer behavior shifts. There's a bit of a chicken and egg <unk>. Around this but let's just accent assume or a perfect world for a second when you see that consumer may shift words. I'm hungry or you know. Where's the nearest restaurant is another way to say i'm hungry right. You're implicitly saying that you're going to start to see these assistance act more like search engines which is really exciting. Because i think that's when <hes>. You know we can start to viewer assistance. The reason why they're called assistance right. They're meant to be helpful mill to help us in our everyday tasks not just voice you know. Search of google acceptable often with a lot of assistance are for most folks. It's whether alarm clocks ability to search for information <hes>. We want to be able to <hes>. Access manipulating engage with information right <hes>. I think we'll definitely see that in the next five years. Ten years is like without with extreme certainty <hes>. Two years is a little bit. you know. It's plausible and then in five years. I i feel pretty confident that you'll start to see the voice assistance that we all know in us today really become search engines and the allowing access the world around it access information and access services around us really with the use of a personal assistant concierge that we have in our home.
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"To multiple ways for google assistant. I'm jessica now. Majel advocate for google assistant. So google is the virtual system annuals conversations between you the user and cool to get things done and google assistant is available over nineteen languages in over eighty countries. Which is fantastic. It's available on smartest us on android phones iphones. Google homes voice activated speakers and more and you can take advantage and leverage that reach by extending the google assistant by creating your own actions. And you could do that. By using our platform actions on google and everyone has different needs and resources when it comes to your own products injure at your own brands in your own projects. We've actually delighted and organize the waste built around the different mechanisms of resources that you might have so. Let's go is each of us are going to start off with content actions into your a website podcast recipe lists. You could do. Is you can actually optimize efforts by sending them to google assistant. You can structure your websites. So then google search could consume. That'd be able to service it to your users. I think of the same thing with google assistant. And so on. Your the jew is just add in schema dot org structure your sites in a way that google <unk>. Also understanding consumer able to deliver your content so these type of categories usually fall in. The bucket alike cues how to guides news. Catherine recipes and i have do is add at structure data markup to make your content available in a richer way on search which also apply to be having all that content being delivered on wilson too. So here's an example of a podcast where they're just using ours. S and being able to add in non structured data so that it can be optimized to work both research amp for the assistance.
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"Imagine this you're working on a team. That's building a game for actions on google. You're getting to the point in the development process where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel that first releases coming well with any luck. You're a member of a savvy team that has done the work ahead of time to think about marketing plan. You know it's critical to understand your audience and have a plan to reach them long before your app hits the virtual shelves in addition to that. You've worked with your team to define some metrics for success so that you know whether or not you're marketing campaigns are doing a good job of reaching the audience. You're looking for when it comes to putting together a marketing plan. I'm pretty fond of this quote. A design isn't finished until using it. When you're wearing marketers hat your goal is to bring a compelling message to that somebody and to get them to tryout. You're cool new game. We'll break our marketing. Plan down into a few steps first off. Let's talk about the building blocks of strategic marketing. If you're watching is because you're a developer remember. This stuff is good to know no matter what having broad understanding of your team's goals for launch can only help you point towards success when thinking about how to market your game you want to assemble a coalition of team members with a broad range of skills. Generally this cross functional team may include participation from the following groups public relations creative leads copywriting engineering and social media management. There's a few key activities you'll want to think about when developing your strategy you want to get to a shared understanding of your target audience evaluate your marketing channels and to think about measures of success. So that you can track how well your marketing activities are working defining. Your target audience should be based on the objective of your action specifically determine if you're trying to reach existing users or new users often building an action is a way to attract new customers thanks to the buzzer. This generates npr however given the nascent stage voici. In the average consumer's life. It's best to start with actions that target existing users and then tackle use cases that drive new user growth. Once you've learned more about how your existing users prefer to engage with your brand via voice for example. A game designed around managing a fictional sports team might initially target. Gamers are sports fans later. They can expand their audience to encourage new players outside of that core audience to try the game as you create your channel plan. Think about how your promotion pits in with your brands. Ecosystem and customer touch points. Remember that it's important to have a consistent and cross channel strategy look to wherever user traffic is greatest to highlight your actions availability
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"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"Android shortcuts are already used by app developers to provide a quick entry point to users via the android launcher last year. We introduced the ability for users to create personal voice shortcuts into apps with google assistant. Now you can join in the voice shortcuts party if you build android shortcuts. They'll automatically be suggested to users in our voice shortcuts gallery so users can set up a personal voice command. The takes advantage of the android shortcut in your app to make this possible. You can use our new shortcuts jetpack macho to push shortcuts whenever users take the corresponding action in your app. Make sure also connect your shortcuts to the right app capabilities in shortcuts dot. Xml when you follow these best practices. Google assistant can suggest relevant shortcuts to users in all sorts of ways and helped drive traffic to your app so just to recap. You can describe the set of deeply supported by your app directly in the short cossacks. A mel via the new capabilities. Api you can use our jetpack module to push unlimited shortcuts to the android system and two assistant next. Let's talk widgets. Widgets have been a great way for users to access lance evergreen content there a great way for users to quickly monitor information complete tasks or just get inspired directly from their home screen but a great thing can get even better. Let's talk about how i with. Android twelve winchester transforming into an interactive customizable view into your app with a consistent design and look and feel so users can get more done within the flow of their day. You're strava implementing a widget to track. How many miles user ran in a week next. we're making it easier. For users to use widgets across all sorts of new surfaces which is will be accessible via voice with google assistant on mobile lockscreen android auto once built on mobile which will be available on other surfaces automatically and accessible to users while driving in a safe and optimized way the integration with assistant enables multi step interactions across all these surfaces with the same widget so it's not only one shot answers and quick updates that you can enable users can have a full conversation with a widget withheld from google this integration. Lets you build single widgets with multi-step flows like selecting and ordering a drink
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"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"Why do we need voice technology specifically for children while the shelf speech recognition technology tends not to work very well for kids. It's akin to what speech recognition technology was for adults ten years ago which was pretty bad and nobody was really using it at the time. And there's very good reasons for this for kids. They're physically very different right you know. We know that they're they're vocal. Tracks are thinner and shorter the vocal folds of smaller so the actual physical voice resides in the different parts of the spectrum. There speech language is different. I mean you know. Children's language developed so much in those early years from two to four to six to eight to ten you can see how their languages maturing it's become more sophisticated is beginning to follow the language rules as they get older when they reach a by ten and they start sounding a little more mature but their behaviors are so different. I mean adults tend to be quite behaved. Very well actually. It's very little. I very bill speed. How adults when you take dialect and accent. We tend to try and follow the language rules than we tend to try and realize how we should interact with voice technology to get the best possible result but kids don't kids don't follow the language rules that behaviors. They along gate. Were they words. They over pronounce words. They p- unctuous <hes>. They showed the whispered they sing and their environments that they're in that they inhabit tend to be always noisy. I mean nobody is a four year old likes to go and have quite time on their own. They tend to be around the adults. They tend to be into their kids. They tend to be. Tv's in the background and adults token northward. Kids are in classrooms playgrounds from cars. When the us. I want to use voice technology. It's not in a quiet environment and we have to be really mindful of that. We also have to be mindful of the channels which <hes> children interact with technology. All different chipset from cheap old smartphones more expensive ipads to chromebooks two laptops to <hes>. Cheap microphones on toys. A voice technology built for kids has to work in all those environments all those channels and be able to cope with the very ability of kids speech <hes> speech in terms of their acoustically. How they sound on on the physical differences both well as the language and the behaviors. I'm very much so we need to protect kids. Data it far beyond what we. We consider important nine space in life. Our kids are sensitive sensitive when it comes to kids. We need to respect the privacy of kids data and that's critical as well
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"2021" Discussed on VOICE Global 2021
"We will get boys and particularly at connector where i spend a lot of my time from a portfolio standpoint <hes>. You know you can equated to again. An experience that a consumer has using their iphone with siri <hes>. Or some of the other voice assistance. That are out there. Banks are starting to look at chat bots and then <hes>. Voice assistance to be able to drive some of the <hes>. More routine and incorporating that with a in the tech stack to be able to drive some of these <hes>. You know sixty eighty percent of the routine transactions that will enable consumers end destinies to self direct service and to minimize the cost and weight time and requirements. Come into a branch in order to be able to do some of <hes>. Some of these transactions. So it's very much an offload strategy as well as an opportunity to really serve consumers in a way that they had not been able to do <hes>. Because they're bringing in incremental data about trying to understand perhaps what next best action is for the consumer and and so if you combine boys as a an a a service strategy and you add into it the artificial intelligence and the machine learning associated with what potential service scenarios and sales and <hes>. You know surprising. The consumer with information that they can assess according to family profile and data. That has been permission. And i think that's one of the keys back to the state of peace if it has been permission by the customer than there's just a slew of opportunity to be able to use it both on what i would call offense and defense <hes>. To to to deliver a better <unk>. Consumer experience and to really get to the horrid of some pain points and i know <hes>. Mercy you do a ton of extraordinary work trying to actually discern. How do i understand. What some of these pain points are from consumers and not only resolve it. But get to what i would call next. Best action
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"Hello there who are you. Hello mona and hello everyone. My name is tennis version. i ever cofounder at. He had and cucolo expert for yugoslav. Stint nice to meet you. But why are you speaking on this topic. Because devi voice arcade herbie's of mine and this is a really nice way to combine them so grab some garner gets ready by the way. How come you are speaking. I am speaking thanks to talking heads from rosebud dada. Ai super kill. Where do you get from i. I would like to know what problems we will be discussing. Today they're two main points. I'd like this custody. The first one is voice is being totally overpowered in movies and tv series. We are talking like or on a supercomputer spaceships that fulfil every tasks text to speech is perfect speech to text as well. Nobody makes any mistakes in pronunciation. Everything is understood correctly when it's now it's huge problem to blocked so noteworthy we are experiencing today. This sets after analysts expectations in your minds of viewers of what voice can do today and as garcia problem and then on the complete other side of the spectrum we would waste can do today and dads being taken as a joke and some of the tv series in the movies were. It's been mostly portrayed at these things can do basically nothing and then why use them and that's obvious for our industry so let's talk about.
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"Sees tremendous value in investing in audible consumer technology. Use obligation can be. Broadly used to enhance the lives. Our members and we think that voice technologies are really natural fit allies with our mission and we want people to rebate wide. They want to read and this just gives them another option. Many of our members use audio books or text with audio read along as their main reading format so when we started looking into ways the to enhance the user experience with voice technology. We found a book. Share reader or smart speaker would be actually really good introduction for our members on ask -nology add share using ai and machine learning to really enhanced the we are members. Reading experience is going and for example where he using im. She'll learning to identify map equations in books. That don't already have <unk>. Tax accessibility and this tool that we bill actually finds these equations in the images and injects matt old text to describe that image and we're also creating math amount alongside a back which is really friendly for screen readers so the math equations when it's not already available in the original source <unk>. Actually surpised for the users and on smart speakers side. The voice technology just seems a little bit more in beagrie for all of our member groups from the young students to the seniors. We can leverage the other initiatives like the one. I'm guessing down to make you both more. Accessible bar members like adding those audio components and the ad way for users interacts completely by voice. And we're creating intuitive reading experience. That doesn't reliable ominous which is really key for are group's obviously
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"My name is aaron. And i'm working as since you started this officer with the ncbi for viewers and our listeners. Today that is actually kinds of blind all the way over in ireland and one of the services at insight which i have been heavily involved in over the last number of years is the library access service and about three years ago. We sold to go international to find best practice solutions to major problem. We were having <hes>. When it came to blind division students accessing their curriculum in a timely former that question indeed has brought us to attack. Who are who. We ultimately partnered with to create the largest digital library in ireland which is now called berkshire are. I'm delighted to say that we've been joined here today by katie bieler. Who is product manager in global literacy at benedict who has played a huge role in bringing book shirt. Ireland so katie. Maybe we'll just start off by telling us a little bit about yourself on indeed butcher. Thanks our end banking introduction as you said. I am product manager global education and literacy <unk>. I came to software product management by way of the publishing industry actually and have worked and software service products for almost ten years. Now i joined about two years ago. And i'm one of the leaf product managers on cher bookstore. Initiative is the world's largest digital library of accessible e books for people who read differently with people or book share people with dyslexia linus low vision. Zero quasi and other print disabilities can access over nine hundred. Fifty thousand evokes informat audio audio plus islands tax radio enlarge on the gook share team. I have the great privilege of helping to create another way. Book share members to read their books by adding smart speaker option.