The Open Voice Network (OVN):

bringing the value of standards to the multi-platform, multi-device, multi-use world of voice assistance.

The importance of standards-based voice assistance.

Artificial intelligence-enabled voice assistance will soon be a primary interface to the internet, mobile apps, smart home and factories, and enterprise applications. Voice assistance is the fastest-adopted consumer technology ever. Yet today's consumers are showing increased hesitation to venture into new usage – especially outside of today's proprietary platforms. As we enter a multi-platform voice world, this raises critical questions of open connection, equal access, and data privacy for today's consumers and enterprises.

Introducing the Open Voice Network.

Dedicated to bringing the value of standards to the multi-platform, multi-device, multi-use world of voice assistance. The Open Voice Network is:

Comprised of experienced, practicing experts. Which means proposed standards and practices will be based in today's realities and tomorrow's feasibilities, and tested with an eye toward value-creating implementation.

Open, objective, and ethical. The OVN is a non-profit organization that will seek – in open, rigorous exploration – to develop standards that bring the most to the many. Where no one entity unfairly benefits from any proposed standards or recommended guidelines.

Results focused. We are milestone-driven and outcome-based. And we know that standards development and governing body approval has merit only if it is followed by broad industry adoption and implementation.

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For the Benefit of the Many

Become an OVN member. Doing so allows you to advocate for and financially support the mission of the Open Voice Network. Members will help shape the future of commerce – in increasingly critical issues of technology, competition, and commercial and personal information privacy.

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Latest stories

In the Pandemic, Voice Grows—But Will It Grow to Value?

Mon, Nov 16, 2020

What will it take for voice to reach its full potential? Despite increases in voice assistant usage throughout the pandemic, consumer hesitation continues to hold the industry back.

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Trust in the Time of COVID-19: Part II

Sat, Oct 24, 2020

During these troubling times, can we trust the information our voice assistant is feeding us? We find that voice is uniquely challenged in overcoming this obstacle.

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Trust in the time of COVID-19. And Truth Decay.

Mon, Oct 12, 2020

In the era of truth decay, it becomes harder and harder to decipher which sources and platforms are trustworthy, reliable providers of information. Working through a global pandemic only amplifies the problem.

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Can You Hear Another Consequence of COVID-19?

Thu, Sep 24, 2020

Much has changed during the course of the pandemic, including the growth of remote shopping experiences and options. Will those disappear when we find our way out of the COVID-19 times? Will they be the new normal?

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