We spoke with Chris Maury (@CMaury) about using speech recognition to interact with devices. 

Note: Please turn off your Echo and Dots as we invoke Alexa a lot. 

Chris is the founder of Conversant Labs. They created TinCan.ai which can help you wireframe or prototype a conversational user interface.  They can also help you build Alexa Skills, though if you are so inclined, you might try it for yourself: Alexa Skills Kit. 

Chris will be speaking at the O'Reilly Design Conference in San Francisco, CA in March 2017, giving a tutorial on building voice based user interfaces. You can read more from Chris on his Medium posts medium.com/@CMaury.

CMU PocketSphinx

Exponent Podcast (techno-biz nerdy one mentioned in lightning round) 

Some of the embedded devices Elecia mentioned:

• Audeme (as heard on The Amp Hour #258)
• Grove Speech Recognizer from Seeed
• EasyVR 

We haven't gotten embedded.fm (or any podcast) to work with Alexa but we aren't sure why. Have you?