Damian Mehers shares the story of his app Voice in a Can from inception to shutdown. We talk customer stories and the future of voice assistants.

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• Damian Mehers’ blog | Swift, SwiftUI and .NET from Switzerland
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• Damian Mehers (@DamianMehers) / X
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Links

• End of life for Voice in a Can
• Alexa Presentation Language
• ZX81 - Wikipedia

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - What is Voice in a Can?
• (11:46) - Working with the Alexa Voice Service
• (16:25) - Customer Stories and Shutting Down
• (21:21) - Future of Voice Assistants

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