Ep. 1240: Tobias Dengel Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tobias Dengel, the President of WillowTree, a TELUS International Company. With over 20 years of technology expertise, Tobias has been recognized by Glassdoor as a Top CEO and featured as a VOICE Summit speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2022 and 2023. Prior to WillowTree, Tobias helped steward strategic partnerships and acquisitions and drive innovation on behalf of companies including AOL and Kearney.
The topic is his book The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Growing up in Virginia
- Voice technology and its current limitations
- Implications on language translation and accessibility
- Search engine optimization
- Challenges with new voice technology
- Effective trust and cognitive trust
- Impact of human-like features
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.6 | My guest today is Tobias Dingell. |
| 0:36.1 | He is the author of a book called The Sound of the Future, |
| 0:39.2 | The Coming Age of Voice Technology. Now you got to know someone like me. I mean, that's a topic. |
| 0:45.2 | That's an author that I just have to dig into. Because so much of my life involves voice, |
| 0:50.7 | whether it's this podcast, whether it's my audiobooks, whether it's me talking to Siri on some Apple device, whether it's this podcast, whether it's my audio books, whether it's me talking to Siri on some |
| 0:56.9 | Apple device, whether it's me using Google Translate to communicate in a foreign language. |
| 1:03.0 | It's a topic near and dear to me. It's going to be a topic near and dear to all of us. |
| 1:08.6 | All you need is a pulse and a little imagination and listen to this episode, |
| 1:13.7 | and you're going to understand why voice tech is going to be huge and is going to change our |
| 1:19.0 | lives 100%. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation with Tobias Dingell |
| 1:24.8 | and learn about the coming age of Voice Tech. |
| 1:29.1 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:34.3 | Dude, grew up in Virginia. |
| 1:39.9 | I see you went to George Mason. |
| 1:41.2 | My brother went there. |
| 1:42.5 | I know a lot of people that went to school there. |
| 1:44.5 | I did. I grew up in Vienna, actually. I grew up in Front Royal. Now I'm in Charlottesville. |
| 1:49.8 | You're in Charlottesville right now? Yeah, that's where our company is. |
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