The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2023 Speech Industry Awards

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

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

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

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.

How to Balance Conversational AI and Privacy

Here's what needs to be in place to ensure quality data gathering but also employee protection when it comes to speech analytics.

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The Need for Continuous Speech Recognition Testing

Conversational AI and voice have to be tested to ensure that they work flawlessly.

Customer Service Must Adapt to Expanded Touchpoints for Voice of the Customer Insight

Companies need to supplement traditional surveys with speech and text analytics. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Analytics Continues Its Charge Beyond the Phone

Companies are gaining even more actionable business intelligence by deploying artificial intelligence and natural language processing engines to customer conversations in multiple digital channels.

The Contact Center Supervisor Workspace Gets a Makeover

From analytics to Copilot, this desktop is supercharged.

Recognizing Atypical Speech Is ASR’s Achilles’ Heel

Accessibility can't be an afterthought.

Real-Time Guidance Is Key to a Great Service Experience

RTG can elevate customer interactions into relationship building sessions.