Joined by #VoiceFirst leader John Kelvie (CEO and founder of Bespoken), Episode 19 of This Week In Voice discusses the latest in voice technology news, focused primarily on AWS Re:Invent, Amazon's annual conference. Stories discussed include Alexa's new monetization, notifications being made available for use to developers, Alexa launching "Alexa for Business," concerns over the future of voice-first search on Alexa and other voice assistants, an evaluation of Apple's failures with HomePod, U2 promoting its new album through an Alexa radio-style broadcast, and the winner of the inaugural Alexa Prize. Hosted by Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) and part of the VoiceFirst.FM podcast network.