Sonic Sunday — 01/02/2022

Here are a few items on matters sonic -- voice, sound and audio -- that I hope you will find interesting. As always, wee would love to hear from you.  To sign up for a free Witlingo account, please go here.

1. Announcements:

• We are kicking off a series of educational events about Audio NFTs starting this Wednesday, January 5th, 2022.  Please go here for more details.
• We are gearing up to begin onboarding our first Beta clients who wish to create and mint audio NFTs right from Witling.  If you are interested in participating, please go here.
• In case you missed it, we are happy to announce that the Witlingo 3.0 platform is now genetrally available.  Please go here for the full release notes.

2. Worth a read:

• Using AI To Optimize Voice Search to Improve Your Website Content
• 25 Years of Sonic Branding
• Why Amazon Should Drop the “Alexa” Name

3. Worth listening to: Episode Five of The Sonic Voices Multicast.

4. Worth watching: The latest episode of Lingofest.  This week, it's Part One if our interview wiith Jeff Adams, formerly Head of Speech at Amazon Alexa, a veteran from the days of L&H, ScanSoft, and Nuance, and currently, CEO at Cobalt Speech & Language, and incubator of several other speech startups..  For previous episodes of Lingofest, please go here.

5. Fun Fact: Did you know what is louder than a car horn? The cry of a human baby, which is about 115 decibels!  More fun facts here.

Guess the movie: And now for some fun! Can you tell what movie this is just from the audio? Go here and try it out.

• The answer to last week's movie is: Idiocracy. And the first person to guess it was: Elaine Anzaldo, Conversational UX Designer at NLX.  Elaine presented at Lingofest 2021.  Here is her presentation.

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