Voice First Organizations

Open Voice Network – Bringing the value of standards to the multi-platform, multi-device, multi-use world of voice assistance.

Women In Voice – A great resource to any women interested in the voice industry in ANY way.  They are also super inclusive of anyone who has been marginalized or not yet given….a voice.

Project Voice– Bradley and team put together a lot of great in person/online events for both free and for charge. Just subscribe to the newsletter and you’ll get a lot of great information.

Sound Analytics and Measurement

Veritonic – an analytics program quantifying the value of sound in your marketing.

Voicebot.ai – Seriously everything on this site is gold-worthy information.  They dig pretty deep into stats and trends and analytics.

Soundhound

Sentient Decision Science – The only research agency that has a scalable, cost-effective approach to isolating and quantifying sub-conscious response to sound, including true implicit emotional appeal and the attribute associations that are triggered as a result of exposure to sound.

Sound Advertising

Pandora For Brands – Pandora’s partner program for aid in advertising on their platform.

Spotify Ad Studio – Spotify’s partner program for aid in advertising on their platform.

AdSonica – AdTech tool for Brands, Agencies, Publishers and eCommerce Merchants that combines audio and image in a single-file JPEG with the power to disrupt digital ads and websites.

Holosonics – Directional sound used to help compliment and hone in your messaging.  A seriously cool company!

Instreamatic– advertising customers can speak to.

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Text to Speech (TTS) and Speech to Text (STT)

Read Speaker – Life like Text to Speech

Trinity Audio– Enables publishers and content providers to join the audio revolution and turn readers into listeners. You might have seen there work in a little publication called Forbes???

Voice Applications and Conversational Design

Matchbox.io– Award winning voice application designer behind voice experiences like Question of the Day and Find My Phone.

Voiceflow– Helps teams design, prototype and launch voice & chat bots.

VoiceXP– Helping you to set up your “voice domain”. Give Bob a call. Great guy and super friendly.

Witlingo– Ahmed and team do a great job of exploring ALL the ways your brand can be present in sound effectively and sincerely.

Botmock– Lets you create conversation flows and interactive prototypes from a simple drag and drop editor, then share or test those prototypes and get feedback in one centralized location.

Speechly– Voice interface API for Web and Mobile Apps

Spokestack– A powerful platform of open source libraries and robust services to make your software fully voice-enabled.

Voice Strategy Agencies

VERSA Agency – Design, build, support, and measure  digital effectiveness.

RAIN Agency– They define voice strategies, design conversational experiences, and build voice technology software.

Skilled Creative – Full service voice agency creating from strategy to voice product launch.

Vixen Labs– Voice Strategy and Design

Podcasting and Podcast Resources

Dante32 – From creation to production, Jenn and her team create the perfect podcast for your organization.

Jam Street Media Blog – Premium podcasts for brands.

Additional Podcasting Resources – Podcasting is a relatively easy way to bring your brand into the “screenless society” that we are in.  This page has a wealth of information and resources to help you DIY your sound marketing strategy.

Learn Conversational AI

Digital Assistant Academy– provides training, certification, and consultations in voice interaction/conversational design. Shyamala and team are the real deal!

Conversational Technologies–  Natural language understanding, virtual assistants and chatbots, enterprise speech strategy, system architecture, speech recognition, etc. Deborah and team have been doing this a long time. If you are needing help understanding the technical end, her site is worth a check out.