Humans talking to Machines: How will Voice AI Technology Change the way News is Discovered and Distributed.

In this talk I will highlight the fact that Voice AI is the biggest technology revolution that the news industry is missing — and that it’s not too late to do something about it.  I shall highlight with example what different newsrooms are trying with smart speakers and where the challenges and opportunities lie. Subsequently, I shall be emphasizing the critical and urgent nature of what the news industry is about to be confronted with, and how — if it’s not careful — it’ll miss the boat just as it did when the Internet first spread from its academic cocoon to the rest of the world. Later, I’ll share how I think the news industry can respond.

Bio-note:

Trushar Barot is Digital Launch Editor of Indian Languages for BBC News. He has worked at the BBC for the past 16 years, across radio, TV, online, social media and digital projects. Last year he was also a Visiting Fellow at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, where he researched the use of Voice AI technologies by news organisations.