Ultimate Guide to Voice Assistants

It will come as no surprise to those of you reading this (thanks!), that the interest and applications of ‘Voice-Assistants’ is growing rapidly. Amazon Alexa and there is talk around for the next 10,000. I won’t be diving into specifics and discussing issues like . That is not what this post is about.

There are lots of resources & tools, tons of cool products, frameworks, articles and people out there to help you learn about the landscape.

💫 Here are some that I find particularly useful 💫

🤔 How To Use This

📰 News: There is very little on the newsletter front focusing on Voice-Assistants. does the best one IMO.

(I’m thinking of starting one too —if you’re interested, sign up below!)

🍜 Startups: Always interesting to see the companies operating in these spaces. They are broken down into different categories so you can easily jump into ‘Building’, ‘Products’, ‘Analytics’ etc. If you think there are some that need adding, .

🤑 Funding: This is just to outline some companies/funds that are very focused in the space right now. Again, if I’ve missed some worthwhile, .

👥 People & Posts: These are some of the awesome people I follow and have come across. I’ve linked them all, you should check them out. If I’ve missed some worthwhile, you know to .

Enjoy 😊!

🚀 I’ve launched something:

🚀Also, I’ve added a little note about at the end of this post. A community helping facilitate connections to;

- Get a skill made/make skills for people/companies- Find investors active in the field- Intros to other active enthusiasts- Bounce ideas around with others- Advice & mentorship from experienced individuals- Resources and tools to help you build- Discover interesting products and companies

📰 News

🗞 Newsletters

(General Google news + Google Home. Subscribe at bottom of page)

🖥 Websites/Sources

📜 General news in space (not Voice specific)

🍜 Startups

🗣 Platforms

👔 Companies

☁️ Cloud Services

🛠 Build

- SDKs & Frameworks

- Extras

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💼 Agencies

📈 Analytics

🎙 Products

🤖 Hardware

🤑 Fundraising

💵 Alexa Fund (All the companies announced)

👥 People & Posts

 — General Partner .

- partner at + runs .

— people-first investor .

— Reporter at TechCrunch.

— vp at .

— Freelance writer + developer.

— CEO Assist.

— Senior Product Manager, Intercom.

— Partner, .

— UX / product design .

— Trying to build a better company, every day and .

— Co-Founder / EIR @ The Chernin Group.

— CEO and CoFounder, PullString. Prev, Pixar.

 — Founder + Editor at .

— Invented the hashtag; X Uber; Xoogler.

— Director of User Experience . Author of the O’Reilly book Designing Voice User Interfaces.

— Strategically-oriented product design leader .

— Co-founder & Partner at NextView Ventures.

Nithya Thadani — CEO of

—I’m an Innovation-Obsessed Founder at Mylestone.

— Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

— Co-Founder/CEO Siri & Viv Labs.

 — Co-founder of .

🚀 - A community helping facilitate connections to;

- Get a skill made/make skills for people/companies- Find investors active in the field- Intros to other active enthusiasts- Bounce ideas around with others- Advice & mentorship from experienced individuals- Resources and tools to help you build- Discover interesting products and companies

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🙏 Thanks to everyone who looked at this draft very early on! And perhaps I’ll see you all in the newsletter or  😉

Side Note:

I have ‘borrowed’ this template from which is an awesome post & newsletter I use to learn about Machine Learning. Thanks 🙌