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Speech Recognition

Speech recognition solutions enable machines to understand and act on human speech inputs, and are the basis for many of the technologies we use today. See below for the latest speech recognition news, trends, and solutions.

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Call Recording, Transcription, and Analytics Find Strength in Unity

With these technologies, companies are achieving deeper alignment by trading point solutions for packages from one vendor.

Phillip Britt // 01 Nov 2021

Captioning Sees an Impressive Pace of Progress

Technology advances are making real-time captioning possible, and progress has just begun.

Erik J. Martin // 01 Nov 2021

The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2021 Speech Industry Awards

Advances in AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and more fueled speech industry progress in the past year.

The Editors of Speech Technology // 02 Aug 2021

2021 Speech Industry Award Winner: AppTek Takes Captioning to New Screens

AppTek has a long history of innovation in the areas of artificial intelligence, speech recognition, machine translation, natural language processing and understanding, and text-to-speech technologies, and finally it is getting the worldwide recognition it deserves.

The Editors of Speech Technology // 02 Aug 2021
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The Risks Posed by Biases in Voice and AI

Artificial intelligence is still a novel concept with its own unique benefits and flaws. This is how it will integrate into sales, marketing, and customer interactions.

Nigel Cannings // 09 Nov 2021

Four Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Compelling Voice Experiences

As voice experiences grow in popularity, here are some pitfalls developers can avoid when creating voice-focused products. 

Adam Sypniewski // 20 Jul 2021

Speech Recognition - The Gaming Industry's Answer to Avoiding Fines

Speech recognition is processor intensive, but a well-engineered, highly tuned GPU-powered system can decrease costs and allow gaming companies to train the system to cope with customers' specific languages. 

Nigel Cannings // 13 Jul 2021

Voice Technology is Essential to Digital Transformation

Advances in speech technology are ensuring that voice continues to have a role in customer interactions.

Rohan Ganeson // 25 May 2021
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Poor IVR Will Make Your Customers Talk (Not in a Good Way)

Subpar design is bad for everyone.

Robin Springer // 15 Dec 2021

NLP and Data Statements: Let’s Speak the Right Language(s)

‘Natural' language processing must not mean ‘English' language processing

Kashyap Kompella // 08 Dec 2021

Designing a Speech Interface? Learn From Web Design Fails

The annoyances and mistakes on websites can provide valuable lessons.

Moshe Yudkowsky // 02 Dec 2021

Speech Technology's Invaluable Assist

Our extraordinary assistive speech technologies were years in the making.

Kevin Brown // 02 Sep 2021
Speech Technology Reports and Research

Optimize your Virtual Assistant with Automated Conversational Analytics

Sponsored by Spitch

12 Jan 2022

How Deep Learning Speech Recognition Fuels Business Transformation

Sponsored by Deepgram

24 Nov 2021

ASR Engines and Cloud Hosted Platforms

Sponsored by Mod9 Technologies

01 Nov 2021

Chatbots - Search vs. Conversation. Do you know the difference?

Sponsored by Verint

01 Nov 2021
Speech Recognition Companies and Suppliers