Eric Bolo is the CTO of Batvoice Technologies, a speech analytics startup based in Paris, France. Eric talks about building a custom speech-to-text system for their flagship product, Call Watch.

He introduces us to speech analytics and audio-mining, and describes some typical applications. We go into detail about speech-to-text (STT) technologies, and discuss the pros and cons of using cloud STT services such as Google speech versus building a custom STT system yourself.

Eric tells us about the latest open source tools and frameworks for building STT systems, and how to get that precious voice data to train our models. We learn how to build and annotate a custom voice dataset ourselves, and hear his advice on starting a voice first company.

This is a great first episode to kick off the series! Eric is super smart, with excellent technical skills and a real passion for voice technology. We already know each other quite well, so I couldn't think of anyone I'd rather have as my first guest on the show. I know you're gonna enjoy hearing what he had to say!

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This is a special episode for VivaTech 2019, Europe's biggest technology conference. You'll hear me talk with 5 of the best voice startups I came across, plus my interview with the communication manager of Google France, where we discuss the new assistant features announced at Google I/O 2019, as well as the new version of Google Duplex for the Web.

As a bonus, I also bring you the presentations from President Emmanuel Macron, who fielded questions from a panel of successful European startup founders concerning the big issues in the European startup scene. After listening, you will better understand the European mindset and the strategies that Europe hopes to employ in order to try and compete with the US and China.

Finally, you'll hear an inspirational talk from Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of the Alibaba group. Currently on the verge of retirement, he reflects on his successes and failures, and shares his advice for would-be founders. I hope you enjoy the conversations, and look forward to talking with you too at a future event!

Interview timestamps:
00:02:45 Google France
00:11:20 Snapcall
00:15:20 Audionamix
00:19:47 Odhio
00:23:20 Pippa
00:28:15 Askr
00:31:50 President Emmanuel Macron
01:01:22 Jack Ma, Alibaba

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AskR: https://www.askr.ai 
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VivaTech: https://vivatechnology.com/

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