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Speech technology in the classroom is becoming an integral part of education. See below for news about companies offering solutions that improve in-class learning and aid students, teachers, parents, and administrators to keep track of performance, attendance and other indicators of success.

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2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: A Speech Technology Special Report

Our roundup of the speech innovation taking place in eight important industry verticals.

2023 State of the Speech Technology Industry

The latest developments and trends in seven important sectors.

2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: ReadSpeaker Customizes TTS Voice Development

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: Verbit Acquires the Top Spot in Transcription

Verbit, an Israeli company, provides artificial intelligence-powered captioning, transcription, translation, and audio description technology and services backed by humans for added accuracy.

Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech in Education

Speech solutions help school professionals assess student progress.

Vertical Markets Spotlight: A Special Report

Speech Technology magazine's roundup of the speech innovation taking place in eight industry verticals.

The 2022 State of Speech Engines

Innovation can't be denied, but challenges remain.

The 2022 State of Artificial Intelligence

Accuracy improves, but privacy concerns loom.

Teaching with Speech

Voice technology has infiltrated the learning environment, improving schools for students and educators alike

As Speech Translation Advances, Barriers Continue to Fall

Technology improvements have pushed speech translation out to a smaller world

Higher Learning: AI, ML, and Speech Tech in Academia

Academics are at the forefront of the biggest AI changes in the industry. Learn more about the latest breakthroughs, the questions researchers are trying to answer, and the challenges they face.

Voice Market for Children Is Ripe for Innovation

Children are exposed to technology at early ages, and voice recognition is emerging as a common way for adults to interact with technology. Yet little work has been done with children's voice recognition systems

2018 SPEECH TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION AWARD: SAYIN’ IT SAM

A Game Platform Helps Nonverbal Children Find Their Voice.

Technology Helps Solve Educational Dilemmas

Whether a student is hard of hearing or a foreign-language speaker, speech technologies can help make the classroom more accessible for everyone.

Star Performers: Jacada's Visual IVR Eases Customer Pain

A Defining Moment for Nuance

Merriam-Webster app for iPhone harnesses the power of Dragon to let users speak words instead of spelling them out.

Audio Search and Mining: A Look at Unstructured Data

Members of the audio search and mining industry find a voice for search.

Speech Enables Wake Forest University Students to Go Mobile

From Harmless Threat to Industry Competition in 14 Weeks: Amateur Designers Leave the Experts Speechless

Speech in Education

Speech-enabled applications and hardware are increasingly finding their way into the classroom and into the offices of educators at all levels of education, but educational applications still represent a small, though growing, segment of the speech technology market, according to industry analysts. According to Peter Ryan, analyst for London-based Datamonitor, speech technologies derived from education were 3.8 percent in 2004, a figure that is expected to grow to 9.7 percent by 2007. The main areas in…