I’ve known Lyle Pratt since he founded BetterVoice in 2010, and was then acquired by Inteliquent (wholesale voice services) in 2016. Lyle was part of Inteliquent / Voyant, which was acquired in 2021 by Sinch. Lyle then left to build Vida as LLMs (Large Language Model) were getting interesting in automating some business functions. Through … Continue reading Vida Voice AI Lyle Pratt, Vida io Founder & CEO
Rob is a TADSummit and TADHack regular. He provides in my opinion a critical litmus test on whether a new communications technology has potential, the issues to consider, and whether its ready. At the end of this post I include the pitch Rob gave for his hack RTCEmergency at the first TADHack in 2014. Time … Continue reading Using speech-to-speech models in conversational chatbots. Rob Pickering.
In my opinion, hSenid Mobile created the most successful telco CPaaS. They made it easy for people, developers and business owners, to solve problems using telecommunications. Back in 2012, when Ideamart launched on hSenid Mobile’s CPaaS, they had no code interfaces, just a webpage to use common templates, e.g. customer communications and alerting. With that … Continue reading Evolve or Get Left Behind, The Next Generation of CPaaS is Here. Dinesh Saparamadu, hSenid Mobile
In 2020 we ran a panel at TADSummit on “Serverless and RTC (Real Time Communications).” The conclusions from that panel continue to ring true today, 4 years later. The importance of examining the specific workloads, AGM (Amazon, Google, and Microsoft) define developer fashion, so serverless is required to remain relevant. The key is some workloads … Continue reading TADSummit Panel Discussion. Are LLMs about to disrupt enterprise SaaS (Software as a Service)?
Podcast Directory I’ve known Paul Golding for many years, well over one decade. All the way back to the early days of helping telcos try to understand what are these things called “developers”. Paul has been in AI since the beginning, I recommend following Paul as his posts are insightful and an excellent tracker on … Continue reading Podcast 84: Truth in AI, Paul Golding
Podcast Directory RJ Burnham is the founder / CEO of Consig AI. I’ve known RJ since his time with Voxeo, which spun out Tropo, a competitor to Twilio, that was sold to Cisco. I really like how RJ positions his experience, he’s been working in voice AI for over 25 years. AI being the latest … Continue reading Podcast 76: Truth in AI, Consig AI, RJ Burnham
Podcast Directory Rob Pickering is a Internet and Real Time Communication Software Expert, Innovator, Advisor, Investor. For me, he’s a touchstone on when a technology has moved beyond hype into having meaningful deployable applications. What Rob has to say around chatbots matters to me more than most of the vendors and analysts. Rob reviewed his … Continue reading Podcast 36: TADSummit Innovators, Rob Pickering