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Speech Technology News

Vallige Introduces Val, a Smart Companion to Support Families Living with Dementia

Val is a voice-enabled companion to help dementia patients and their caregivers.

Bland Raises Funds to Advance Voice AI

Bland has surpassed $100 million in funding to advance Voice AI for complex, high-stakes conversations.

Klick Labs Partners with Mayo Clinic on Vocal Biomarker Research

Klick's clinical studies will involve multiple departments and study areas.

Krisp Launches Voice Translation v3

Krisp Voice Translation v3 is now self-serve via API, with new quality controls.

DentScribe Launches DentScribe Perio Charting 3.0

DentScribe Perio Charting 3.0 is specifically designed to understand periodontal terminology and workflows.

Treble Technologies and Hugging Face Benchmark ASR Models

Treble and Hugging Face launch the Far Field ASR (FFASR) Leaderboard, a community-driven benchmark of ASR models under realistic far-field acoustic conditions.

Modulate Expands Velma with Voice-Native Real-Time Conversation Intelligence

Modulate has released its flagship Velma model through its developer API.

Broadvoice Launches GoEngage and AI Analyst

Broadvoice GoEngage and AI Analyst bring voice AI and conversational insights to GoContact. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Eltropy Expands Voice Authentication Ecosystem with Illuma, IDgo, and Pindrop

Eltropy is expanded its partnership ecosystem to expand voice authentication across consumer interactions for credit unions and community banks.

Greenhouse Acquires Ezra AI Labs

Greenhouse completes its acquisition of Ezra AI Labs, bringing conversational AI to the hiring process.

Clayfin Acquires Louie Voice

Clayfin expands into voice AI with its acquisition of Louie Voice.

BlueParrott Adds Voice Isolation to Headsets for Truck Drivers

BlueParrott Pro Series delivers noise cancellation so professional drivers can hear and be heard.

Deepgram Partners with Fortanix and NVIDIA

Deepgram is delivering private voice AI to regulated industries with on-premises deployments powered by Fortanix Confidential AI and NVIDIA Confidential Computing.

Corti Launches Symphony for Speech-to-Text 

Corti's Symphony for Speech-to-Text models reduce word error rates by up to 93 percent.

Voxmind Emerges to Fill Voice Biometrics Void

Voice authentication startup Voxmind has closed a seed funding round to advance its technology as other vendors exit the market.

SwitchBot Launches Voice-Enabled KATA Friends

SwitchBot's KATA Friends are interactive AI pets that respond to voice and adapt to users over time.

Bloomberg Vault Integrates BSpeech Transcription

Bloomberg BSpeech in Vault unlocks multi-language voice transcription across 50+ languages for compliance professionals.

UneeQ Launches AI Buddy for Spoken Sales Coaching

Uneeq's AI Buddy is an AI digital human for face-to-face, spoken sales coaching in real time.

Kardome Voice AI Deployed in LG OLED TVs

LG TVs are now powered by Kardome's Spatial Hearing AI for human-like voice localization and isolation.

Stamp Launches Interactive Personal History Platform

Stamp lets people create interactive life stories in their own voices and images.