People speak 100 times more words than they write in email
Evan Macmillan · Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Sep 14, 2015 · at 3:35
Evan Macmillan, founder and CEO of Gridspace, compares the volume of human spoken communication to written email during a presentation at Data Driven NYC.
0:00 / 0:06exact quote · 6.0s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“So people speak about, ah, a hundred times more words, ah, than they write in email.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Evan Macmillan
Cisco and Avaya control the majority of enterprise voice data infrastructure
“So when we're talking about voice data, there's a few companies that control the pipes and those companies are Cisco and Viya, and they have a pretty large footprint in contact center, and then also in unified conferencing.”
Most YouTube advertisers do not know what video content they target
“Most YouTube, I mean, advertisers don't really know what's going on in the YouTube videos they advertise against.”
English speech recognition is harder than Romance languages due to orthography
“English was actually harder than many romantic languages because the orthography in English, it means it's like how, how words get written and then said are, there's a better connection in romantic languages than English.”