What’s Inside the Box? Our latest box of chocolates is all about Halloween. Savor the candies as you hear our chocolatiers talk about what happened in their chocolate shops over the Halloween season. Amber’s Halloween turned out to be more stressful than expected. Brandon was forced to confront some inner demons. Opal and Archie had several interesting customer encounters that you won’t want to miss. […]

In this post we’ll describe the new art form of “conversational stories”, which are enabled by speech recognition technologies powering the latest generation of voice assistants. Our Definition of a Conversational Story We call ourselves a publisher of conversational stories. What do mean by conversational stories? Conversational Storytelling is made possible by platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. The underlying technology allows a […]

Fall is almost here. Leaves will soon be turning colors, pumpkins will adorn porches, and children will don their spooky apparel before heading out into the night. Halloween Chocolate Stories It’s time for some spooky stories; or at least some Halloween action in our chocolate shops. To help fill our next assortment of conversational stories with tasty Halloween-themed tales, we’re running a writing contest. We’re […]

Next week brings us the exciting Digital Book World Conference, one of the great events managed by Score Publishing, the same team that’s bringing us Project Voice in January. Digital Book World 2019 We’re excited to be offering a workshop for authors at the upcoming Digital Book World in Nashville, TN. The pre-conference workshop, titled “Writing Conversational Stories for Emerging Tech Platforms“ is scheduled for September 9th at 1:30pm in […]

How do you write a compelling story for a voice app centered around chocolatiers and their chocolate shops? For that matter, how do you craft any compelling story that’s designed to be heard, not read? That’s what we’ll explore in this post. But first!!… If you haven’t yet read our Author Tips page, we recommend you start by reading through those tips before you continue. […]

Celebrating Women’s Equality Day In the U.S. we celebrate Women’s Equality on August 26th. What’s special about that day? A century ago, that date marked an important milestone in the march for women’s civil rights. You can learn more by listening to the first candy story in the box! One of our regular contributing authors suggested we use this occasion to present an assortment of […]

Tellables was a startup sponsor and exhibitor at last week’s VOICE Summit 2019, hosted by the team at Modev. We had a terrific time in Newark at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where we had Table 1 in Startup Alley (the best location in the house!). Here are our key conference takeaways: Voice-First Content Is a Paradigm Shift Voice technology is still new and […]

A Taste of the Miraculous Feeling weighed down by your daily routine? Too busy to notice how amazing the world can be? Assortment 8 might be the cure you need. Join our chocolatiers to experience the latest box of chocolate stories, designed to open your mind and lift your spirits.   The theme of this box is “Miracles & Families.” Each story features something miraculous and ties […]

Still Early Days, But Not for Long We’ve been talking a lot about the opportunities for authors in the world of voice first devices. It’s still early days. Lots of people own and use voice assistants, but most aren’t using them yet to hear stories. Still, it seems inevitable that we’ll be talking more and more to smart virtual personalities, like Amazon Alexa and Google […]