All of the Project Voice 2021 Award Winners
Project Voice unveiled the 2021 award winners this week as this year’s virtual conference began. The award categories touched the increasingly wide range of voice technology applications and the people and companies behind them, including its key role during the COVID-19 pandemic. That hugely different independent voice experience developers like Speechly, Voiceflow and Skilled Creative could each appear on the list shows just how broad that concept has become. The same goes for Cerence, recognized for many of its new and innovative applications of voice tech despite its theoretical constraint to “automotive voice tech.” You can see the full list of winners below.
Outstanding Achievement Awards – Sanjay Dhawan / Mark Benjamin (Cerence spinoff from Nuance), Kurt Schrader / Andrew Childs (Clubhouse), Daniela Braga (First female CEO of voice/AI company to raise over $50M), Jon Stine (Open Voice Network), Iran Davar Ardalan / Nisa McCoy / Nikki McLay / Karim Ardalan / Kee Malesky / Robert Malesky (iVow.AI), Karol Stryja / Michal Stanislawek (VoiceLunch), Google (Google for Startups Accelerator: Voice AI), Nick Schwab (Sleep Sounds), Nithya Thadani (RAIN Agency)
Brandon Kaplan (Skilled Creative), Tobias Dengel (WillowTree), Mark Gray (Constant Companion)
Voice Developer of the Year – Cerence, Nuance
Voice Experience of the Year – Starfinder, Clubhouse
The Project Voice Advisory Group Award For Best Voice Experience Created By A Large Company – Lucky Charms Magical Mission (General Mills), Wild Turkey Tasting (Campari), NBA Skill Relaunch (NBA)
Voice/AI Pioneer of the Year – Aariv Modi (independent voice developer)
Voice/AI Executive of the Year – Sanjay Dhawan (Cerence)
Voice/AI Journalist of the Year – Bret Kinsella (Voicebot.AI)
The Project Voice Medal for Diversity and Inclusion – iVow.AI
The This Week In Voice Award for Voice/AI Commentator of the Year – Bret Kinsella (Voicebot.AI)
Best Voice/AI Chip / Processor – Graphcore
Best Voice/AI Integration Within A Mobile App – Spotify
Best Voice/AI Integration Within A Website – Google (YouTube)
Best Use of Sentiment Analysis Within Conversational AI – Behavioral Signals
The DefinedCrowd Award For Best Use of Data Science Within Conversational AI – NVIDIA
Best Use of Biometric Authentication Within Conversational AI – Kaizen Technologies, Pindrop
Best Use of Synthetic Voices – Skyrim Fan Video (Adriac), Cerence Q4 Earnings Call (Cerence)
Amazon Alexa Developer of the Year – Paizo (Starfinder)
Google Assistant Developer of the Year – iVow.AI (Sina Storyteller)
Samsung Bixby Developer of the Year – Wondery
Microsoft AI Use Case of the Year – Zammo
Apple Siri Use Case of the Year – Find Your Nearest COVID-19 Vaccination Site
Independent Voice/AI Company of the Year – Cerence
The Voice of the Car Summit Award for Automotive Voice/AI Developer of the Year – Mercedes (MBUX) Powered By Cerence
The Voice of Hospitality Summit Award for Best Hospitality Voice/AI Developer Of The Year – Volara
The Voice of Healthcare Summit Award For Healthcare Voice/AI Developer of the Year – Constant Companion
Best Application of Voice/AI To COVID-19 – Carnegie Mellon University
Education Voice/AI Developer of the Year – Bamboo Learning
The Digital Book World Awards For Publishing/Storytelling Voice/AI Developer of the Year – RealSAM
The Voice of Money Award for Best Financial Voice/AI Developer of the Year – LV= General Insurance / Rabbit & Pork
The Voice of Gaming Award For Gaming Voice/AI Developer of the Year – Labworks.IO
Smart Home Voice/AI Developer of the Year – Josh.AI
Retail Voice/AI Developer of the Year – Best Buy, Speechly
Manufacturing / Logistics Voice/AI Developer of the Year – ConverSight.AI
Flash Briefing of the Year – Voice in Canada
Third-Party Voice Development Tool of the Year – Voiceflow
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