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Voice assistants are set to decide the battle of the platforms "if apple don't catch up (with voice) they'll get left behind and people will switch for voice assistance" that's fighting talk from Google. We envision this becoming common interaction with computing and voice moments (as amazon calls them) will merge from personal voice assistants into the workplace by 2020. It happened with smart phones and mobile devices and the next step for consumerisation of IT is voice.

Google AI to make phone calls for you The search giant unveils an experimental tool that can make appointments by calling businesses.

We had an excellent time last night thanks to Apadmi Ltd and the brilliant Voice innovations event including BBC Amazon.com The University of Salford Prof. Cox and Podcast expert Emma Houlton.

The room was full of 100s businesses innovating in Voice and the voice is loud and clear and here to stay.

Marcus Hadfield kicked off the session with a look at the early ‘talking machines’ from 1939 and we journeyed through the human voice and what it says about us by Prof. Trevor Cox from Uni of Salford and innovations around Voice assistants from Albert Creixell, Amazon Alexa, a tour of Flash Briefings from Emma Houlton at ‘Art of the Podcast’, and Architecture Expertise from Apadmi Marcus Duffy and BBC Mukul Devichand.