AI Teaches Avatars How to Talk
06 Mar 2025
Lip sync solutions increase immersion and drive user engagement.
The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2024 Speech Industry Awards
24 Sep 2024
Artificial intelligence is now integral to speech technology, a fact reflected by our winning vendors.
2024 Speech Industry Award Winner: Kardome Is Making Cars More Driver-Friendly
24 Sep 2024
Cars are becoming better listeners, and one company driving that change is Israeli startup Kardome, whose system can reportedly capture and identify up to six speakers in three seat rows.
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 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 State of the Speech Technology Industry
08 Feb 2023
The latest developments and trends in seven important sectors.
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.
2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: ReadSpeaker Customizes TTS Voice Development
15 Sep 2022
ReadSpeaker, a Dutch company founded in 1999, has operated as a subsidiary of HOYA since 2017. It provides text-to-speech solutions with more than 110 voices in more than 35 languages, but its most significant work has been in the area of customized voice creation.
2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: SoundHound Has Driving Ambitions for Speech
15 Sep 2022
SoundHound, an audio and speech recognition company founded in 2005, has advanced as one of the top providers of in-car voice systems, elevating the automotive voice experience from a legacy command-and-control interface to more intuitive conversational functionalities for drivers and passengers.
The 2022 State of Artificial Intelligence
17 Feb 2022
Accuracy improves, but privacy concerns loom.
2021 Speech Industry Award Winner: ReadSpeaker Gives a New Voice to TTS
02 Aug 2021
ReadSpeaker has been leading the way in text-to-speech (TTS) for more than two decades, delivering high-quality, lifelike voices for artificial intelligence-driven conversational applications, interactive voice response systems, and embedded applications.
Speech Technology Inches Closer to the Edge
12 May 2021
An emerging computing paradigm, edge computing, promises to improve response time, lower costs, and enhance security, but the ecosystem is immature.
The State of Intelligent Virtual Assistants
07 Feb 2020
IVA vendors shift from a horizontal to a vertical focus
Star Performer: Apple Is More Siri-ous
29 Jul 2014
Star Performers: Nuance Advances Enterprise and Consumer Efforts
29 Jul 2014
Do In-Car Voice-Enabled Devices Distract Drivers?
15 Nov 2013
Speech industry experts question a recent AAA study that says eyes-free, hands-free technologies are not safe on the road.
Convenience Drives the Speech Technology Market
10 Feb 2011
New SVOX research in the United Kingdom finds that text-to-speech and speech recognition offer convenience and safety benefits.
Want to Listen to the Beatles? Just Ask for the “Fab Four”
06 Jan 2011
Gracenote provides a solution for music search in the MyFord Touch.
Voice on the Go Takes Voice on the Road
09 Apr 2010
New application lets drivers listen to and respond to messages without ever looking at their phone.
Competition Heats Up
08 Mar 2010
But delivering functional voice search services will take time and effort.