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.
2024 State of AI in the Speech Technology Industry: AI Is Enabling Audiovisual Enhancements
09 Feb 2024
Voice and video creation tools continue to benefit from AI augmentation.
Industry-Standard Speech App Building Blocks Take Shape
06 Nov 2023
Interface interoperability is becoming closer to reality, but more work is needed.
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: D-ID Gives a Human Face and Voice to AI
13 Sep 2023
D-ID, an Israeli company founded in 2017, is providing superpowers to individual creators and businesses alike, uniquely enabling them to transform any picture into an interactive video in seconds.
2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: ID R&D Pioneers Liveness Detection
13 Sep 2023
ID R&D, a New York-based provider of liveness detection and voice biometrics, has quickly become a leader in addressing AI-powered fraud by combining passive facial liveness and voice anti-spoofing technologies.
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: 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: 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.
Speech Analytics Can Help Steer Chatbot Interactions
14 Jul 2023
Companies are beginning to apply traditional speech analytics to their automated conversations.
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 Financial Services
12 May 2023
Rise in voice banking requires a rise in voice-based support, verification, and AI.
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.
2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech Technology in Restaurants
12 May 2023
Staffing shortages prompt a greater use of voice ordering automation.
2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech Technology in Retail
12 May 2023
Voice shopping from home and at retail kiosks is proliferating.
2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech Technology in Travel and Hospitality
12 May 2023
Voice brings concierge service to bookings and hotel stays.
Has Speech Crossed the Uncanny Valley?
06 Apr 2023
People no longer see humanlike speech as too creepy. The question is whether that will last.