Starbucks to hear how the company adapts in the age of technology. This week we took Bloomberg Technology to seattle for the geek wire summit. We spent time with the biggest names in the region including amazon, microsoft, and starbucks. Lets kick it off now with my exclusive interview with amazon Vice President of alexa devices. She tells us that they would not rule out partnerships with major rivals like apple and google if it means improving their voice activated technology. I am focused on trying to reduce friction for customers and drive towards what we call our Customer Experience north star. Really the idea there is that alexa is more humanlike. It is more conversational. Weekend shorten the path from where the customer is starting and where they want to be with less and less work on their part. Emily will alexa be responding uhhuhs like in the snl skit . Something like that, yes. Emily when it comes to understanding human language, whether it is an adult talking or a child talk
Voice activated virtual assistant. We will speak with the Vice President of alexa. A wideranging interview with the former ceo of microsoft, Steve Ballmer. And we will hear from the ceo of starbucks to hear how the company adapts in the age of technology. This week we took Bloomberg Technology to seattle for the geek wire summit. We spent time with the biggest names in the region including amazon, microsoft, and starbucks. Lets kick it off now with my exclusive interview with amazon Vice President of alexa devices. She told us that they would not rule out partnerships with major rivals like apple and google if it means improving their voice activated technology. I am focused on trying to reduce friction for customers and drive towards what we call our Customer Experience north star. Really the idea there is that alexa is more humanlike. So, it is conversational. So we can shorten the path from where the customer is starting and where they want to be with less and less work on their par
Steve ballmer. And we will hear from the ceo of starbucks to hear how the company adapts in the age of technology. This week we took Bloomberg Technology to seattle for the geek wire summit. We spent time with the biggest names in the region including amazon, microsoft, and starbucks. Lets kick it off now with my exclusive interview with amazon Vice President of alexa devices. She told us that they would not rule out partnerships with major rivals like apple and google if it means improving their voice activated technology. I am focused on trying to reduce friction for customers and drive towards what we call our Customer Experience north star. Really the idea there is that alexa is more humanlike. So, it is conversational. So we can shorten the path from where the customer is starting and where they want to be with less and less work on their part. Emily is alexa going be responding with the uhhuhs like in the snl skit . May be. I joke that that is Something Like a human would do. Emi
Amazon, microsoft, and starbucks. Lets kick it off now with my exclusive interview with amazon Vice President of alexa devices. She told us that they would not rule out partnerships with major rivals like apple and google if it means improving their voice activated technology. I am focused on trying to reduce friction for customers and drive towards what we call our Customer Experience north star. Really the idea there is that alexa is more humanlike. So, it is conversational. So we can shorten the path from where the customer is starting and where they want to be with less and less work on their part. Emily is alexa be responding with the uhhuhs like in the snl skit . May be. I joke that that is Something Like a human would do. Emily when it comes to understanding human language, whether it is an adult talking or a child talking, or are we there when it comes to how much improvement can be made . We are definitely not there. It is day one, super early stages. We like to say we are on
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