Jeff Adams is best known for leading the ASR team that built Amazon’s Alexa and we went into that history in-depth in episode 59 last year. He has accumulated over 20 patents in speech technology since the 1990s working as an engineer and CTO for some of the biggest names in the industry. Today, Jeff is CEO of Cobalt Speech which helps develop voice technology for new applications beyond what you see from Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri. He shares 10 of these innovative applications in this week's episode to illustrate how broadly voice technology will soon impact our daily lives. Jeff has worked on some of these solutions, others he has observed in the market, and a few are still yet to come