2024 State of AI in the Speech Technology Industry
09 Feb 2024
How generative (and other types of) artificial intelligence is impacting five important sectors.
The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2023 Speech Industry Awards
13 Sep 2023
AI, AI, and more AI: The technology is disrupting everything, and it's found everywhere in our speech industry achievements for 2023.
2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: Microsoft’s VALL-E Breaks the Mold in AI Training
13 Sep 2023
VALL-E, one of Microsoft's latest forays into artificial intelligence, is a transformer-based text-to-speech model that can re-create any voice from just a three-second sample clip.
2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: NVIDIA Is Making Voice AI Better for Almost Everyone
13 Sep 2023
NVIDIA saw blowout second-quarter results, surging margins, and incredible demand, which prompted one analyst from Constellation Insights to conclude that "it's clear the company has little competition and a lot of pricing power."
2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: OpenAI and Its ChatGPT Upended Everything
13 Sep 2023
When it comes to new technologies, few have had as much of an impact as generative artificial intelligence, ushered in by OpenAI in November 2022 with its ChatGPT launch.
2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: SoundHound AI Brings Speech Breakthroughs to the Mainstream
13 Sep 2023
SoundHound AI, based in Santa Clara, Calif., this year launched, among other things, Chat AI, a voice-enabled digital assistant with generative artificial intelligence; and Smart Answering, which uses voice AI to handle inbound customer calls.
2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: Speechmatics Inches Closer Toward a Universal Translator
13 Sep 2023
Speechmatics, a provider of automatic speech recognition software based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modeling, is on a mission to make its speech-to-text technology usable by 70 percent of the world's population in the next three years.
2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: SyncWords Leads in Live Captioning, Dubbing, and Subtitling
13 Sep 2023
The New York-based company reportedly last year captioned and subtitled more than 15 million minutes in video on-demand, processed more than 500,000 minutes of content with speech recognition, and live-captioned more than 300,000 minutes of events.
2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: A Speech Technology Special Report
12 May 2023
Our roundup of the speech innovation taking place in eight important industry verticals.
2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech Technology in Consumer Electronics
12 May 2023
Interoperability's been the biggest challenge, but standards are emerging.
2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech Technology in Government
12 May 2023
Public-sector entities can improve customer service, delivery of benefits and services, efficiency, transparency, and more.
2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech Technology in Healthcare
12 May 2023
Speech gives caregivers more time to spend with patients.
Speech Model Training Gets Easier with the Latest Tools
06 Apr 2023
Training AI models for some voice interfaces could be as simple as drag and drop.
2023 State of the Speech Technology Industry
08 Feb 2023
The latest developments and trends in seven important sectors.
The 2023 State of Speech Engines
08 Feb 2023
More humanlike speech leads to more intuitive interactions.
The 2023 State of Speech Development Platforms
08 Feb 2023
The quest for open standards will help speech apps' business case.
The 2023 State of Speech Analytics
08 Feb 2023
Growth is set to continue as demand rises and use cases abound.
The 2023 State of Assistive Technology
08 Feb 2023
New rules and initiatives are helping make devices more accessible.
The 2023 State of Artificial Intelligence
08 Feb 2023
AI's influence on speech continues to expand.
The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2022 Speech Industry Awards
15 Sep 2022
Advances in AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and more fueled speech industry progress in the past year.