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Sam Machin

· Developer Advocate

Sam Machin has nearly 20 years of experience in the communications industry and a strong track record of innovation. His role as a developer advocate enables him to attend events where he loves to chat with developers about their projects, His personal projects mostly revolve around Amazon Alexa, Sam created the AlexaPi project allowing developers to build thier own Alexa powered devices and he is recognised by Amazon as an Alexa Champion.

23 Posts By "Sam Machin"

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Announcing the Nexmo Node-RED Package

Published February 21, 2019 by Sam Machin

We strive to make programmable communications available to as many people as possible, but until now if you wanted ...
Pager - Hack the Planet
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Building a Serverless Paging Application with Amazon Transcribe

Published November 27, 2018 by Sam Machin

The 90’s had some great technologies: MiniDisc, Tamagotchi, and PAGERS! OK, for most things our smartphones have moved things along ...
A woman getting ready to order a pizza, using AI bots.
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A Developer’s Primer on AI Terminology

Published November 12, 2018 by Sam Machin

If you’re a developer working on customer communication tech, you’ve almost certainly started to explore how AI can enhance ...
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Text to Speech with Prompt Calls, Using Python on AWS Lambda

Published February 16, 2018 by Sam Machin

The Nexmo Voice API offers great flexibility in the call scenarios you can activate, however in order to do ...
voice interface
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The Future of Bots: Voice as the Primary Computer Interface

Published November 30, 2017 by Sam Machin

In my college days, I had serious doubts about voice ever becoming a viable computer interface, but the rapid ...
personal assistants, voice assistants
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Bots and AI: How Personal Will Personal Assistants Be?

Published November 16, 2017 by Sam Machin

Will AI-powered personal assistants know users well enough to make relevant, personalized recommendations? WIll they then become a channel ...
Voice SEO
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Will Bots Give Rise to Voice SEO and Bidding on Spoken Queries?

Published November 09, 2017 by Sam Machin

As users increasingly rely on voice bots and personal assistants for recommendations on their buying decisions, businesses will do ...
invocation names for alexa skills
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Bots and AI: Mastering Invocation Names for Alexa Skills

Published November 02, 2017 by Sam Machin

The invocation name you choose for an Alexa skill can have a huge impact on the usability of your ...

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