Move over Siri and Apple Watch. iPhone owners (at least in a corporate setting) have a new superstar. It’s name is Talko and its aim is to make good on the promise of treating voice conversations as the central asset for teamwork and collaboration.

Talko is available initially as an app for iPhone users. Android is “coming soon.” The app – in contrast to precursors like HarQen (scroll down in this post from 2012) or RebelVox (which debuted in 2009) – has quickly achieved a high profile, in part, because it is presented as the brainchild of Ray Ozzie, as explained in this post by the NYTimes’ Quentin Hardy, when Ozzie talks (so-to-speak) people listen. And now he has created “a permanent voice.” If you’d like a first-hand account of Ozzie’s enthusiasm for voice, read this blog post that he composed on the day that Talko debuted.

This is a stop-the-presses moment for the HyperVoice Consortium and the “voice is a great asset” crowd because visionaries from a multiplicity of broadband, digital communications disciplines have generated excitement about the spoken word. May The Force be with us.

Categories: Conversational Intelligence, Articles

Tags: Collaboration, Talko, Ray Ozzie, HyperVoice, Mobile CX