Voice Design Strategy for Kids

The Future is Spoken presents Matthew Hammersley as this week's guest. Matthew Hammersley is the Founder and CEO of the novel effect, which uses voice recognition combined with sound effects to enhance storytime for parents, teachers and children. Matt was previously a patent attorney for various companies. During his daughter's baby shower function, an idea for bringing new technology like voice recognition to the timeless tradition of reading aloud to children and making storytelling more engaging came to his mind. That is when he quit his job to start the company novel effect. Matt comes from a chemical engineering background from Clemson University. Starting with their own experiences, they end up discussing voice design strategy for everyone. Tune in Now! Conversation Highlights: [00:01:36]: Matt's journey from Chemical engineer to Cryptography and then from Patent officer to founder of Novel Effect. [00:04:45] Birth story of Novel Effect and how it all started [00:09:40] Kids have more patience than adults when things go wrong [00:12:45] Whose responsibility is it to safeguard a child's protection? [00:18:03] Handling privacy for kids [00:27:05] Targeting the right market [00:35:25] Designing custom responses for kids [00:41:05] Suggestions for aspiring conversation designers Learn more about Novel Effect on Twitter and the web: @novel_effect Novel Effect Download Novel Effect in the App Store: Novel Effect for iOS Download Novel Effect in Android: Novel Effect Beta for Android Follow Novel Effect on Facebook: Novel Effect on Facebook Learn more about Matthew at ● LinkedIn - If you enjoyed this episode of The Future is Spoken Podcast , then make sure to

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Voice Design Strategy for Kids is an episode from The Future is Spoken by Shyamala Prayaga.

This episode is 43:47 long.

This episode was published on Apr 14, 2021.

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