2023 State of the Speech Technology Industry
08 Feb 2023
The latest developments and trends in seven important sectors.
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: Verbit Acquires the Top Spot in Transcription
15 Sep 2022
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
13 Jun 2022
Speech solutions help school professionals assess student progress.
Vertical Markets Spotlight: A Special Report
13 Jun 2022
Speech Technology magazine's roundup of the speech innovation taking place in eight industry verticals.
The 2022 State of Speech Engines
17 Feb 2022
Innovation can't be denied, but challenges remain.
The 2022 State of Artificial Intelligence
17 Feb 2022
Accuracy improves, but privacy concerns loom.
Teaching with Speech
01 Aug 2020
Voice technology has infiltrated the learning environment, improving schools for students and educators alike
As Speech Translation Advances, Barriers Continue to Fall
01 Aug 2020
Technology improvements have pushed speech translation out to a smaller world
Higher Learning: AI, ML, and Speech Tech in Academia
21 Oct 2019
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
10 Dec 2018
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
13 Aug 2018
A Game Platform Helps Nonverbal Children Find Their Voice.
Technology Helps Solve Educational Dilemmas
29 Oct 2018
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
29 Jul 2014
A Defining Moment for Nuance
21 Dec 2010
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
01 Apr 2007
Members of the audio search and mining industry find a voice for search.
Speech Enables Wake Forest University Students to Go Mobile
03 Jul 2006
From Harmless Threat to Industry Competition in 14 Weeks: Amateur Designers Leave the Experts Speechless
03 Jul 2006
Speech in Education
20 Jun 2005
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…
From Conception to Adolescence, the Speech Industry Is Developing a New Breed of Designers/Developers
20 Jun 2005
At the Tufts University campus, the Experimental College (the oldest organization of its kind in the United States) serves as a center for educational innovation, undergraduate curriculum expansion and faculty-student collaboration in the arts and sciences. Blade Kotelly of Edify and Joe Lemay, student at MIT Sloan School of Management, are turning out voice user-interface designers. …