The Sound of the Future, Tobias Dengel
The Sound of the Future, Tobias Dengel
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The Sound of the Future
The Coming Age of Voice Technology

Author: Tobias Dengel, Karl Weber

Narrator: Graham Winton

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 10/10/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Why voice technology is the next big thing in technology, as big as mobile a decade ago and the internet in the late 90s, fundamentally altering the way companies do business.

Voice is the next technology – remarkably similar in potential impact to the internet and mobile computing - poised to change the way the world works. Tobias Dengel is in the vanguard of this breakthrough, understanding the deep, wide-ranging implications voice will have for every industry. In The Sound of the Future, he connects the dots about this emerging paradigm to vividly illustrate how business leaders can stay ahead of the game, rather than scrambling to catch up, as voice technology gradually reveals its power, creating a host of new winners and losers.  

Using fascinating, colorful stories, Dengel explains how the “voice-first” experience is becoming part of the global technology mainstream, exploring the ways voice will do a better job of serving basic human needs such as safety, speed, accuracy, convenience, and fun, as well as making it possible for hundreds of millions of people around the planet to participate more fully and productively in today’s high-tech world by making interactions with technology virtually effortless. 

A pervasive technology like the internet and mobile, voice, with applications in marketing, sales, service, manufacturing, and logistics, will change the way we work at every level and every function, driving down costs, boosting productivity, and enabling the creation of entirely new business models.

This is not simply about Siri and Alexa. They are the tantalizing but incomplete precursors of the ultimate interface that will make technology easier, faster, more accurate, and more human.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alana on March 03, 2024

I was so excited by the title of this book because I see a lot of potential with voice technology, so I was disappointed to find out this book was merely a startup pitch to use voice tech for the sake of making profits, be it through better customer service, increasing worker efficiency, or making m......more

Goodreads review by Kendall on November 13, 2023

Engaging, readable, and persuasive book explaining the market forces-- and basic intuition --that indicate that the digital world will be profoundly reshaped by voice technology in the years ahead. Provides compelling data, research, and clear next steps for companies looking to remain ahead of the......more

Goodreads review by Josh on May 19, 2024

This book was much too basic to be useful for somebody employed in the conversational AI tech sphere. The author’s main argument is that voice is the next major evolution in human-computer interfaces. He painstakingly lists out every industry and situation in which voice tech could be applied: hospi......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on January 03, 2024

The summary Written for a business audience, this book has two distinct sections. The first provides a gentle, integrated primer on voice technologies, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech to text (STT), text to speech (TTS) or voice cloning, and natural language processing (NLP), and l......more

Goodreads review by Louise on October 09, 2023

I am not a technology geek nor avid fan by any stretch of the imagination, so I read THE SOUND OF THE FUTURE by Tobias Dengel with wide open curiosity and a willingness to learn what is possibly coming next for our society. I did learn about the potential of voice technology to enable the formerly v......more


Quotes

“The author does a good job of explaining where [voice technology] is going…From a solid base of experience, Dengel charts the way forward for the next technological shift.”—Kirkus