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

Speech Technology Inches Closer to the Edge

An emerging computing paradigm, edge computing, promises to improve response time, lower costs, and enhance security, but the ecosystem is immature.

Paul Korzeniowski // 12 May 2021

2021 State of the Speech Technology Industry

The latest developments and trends in seven important sectors

The Editors of Speech Technology // 04 Feb 2021

Curbing Speech Data Overreach

More regulation is needed to protect voice data privacy and security, experts agree

Erik J. Martin // 01 Nov 2020

Debunking the Most Common Myths in Voice Technology

Demand for voice-enabled devices has skyrocketed during the pandemic, and in the rush to capitalize on it, businesses can easily fall prey to common misconceptions about voice-enabled products. This piece debunks these myths one by one. 

Paul Beckmann // 06 Apr 2021

Wake Words Will Soon See a Resurgence

As consumers get more accustomed to using voice interfaces, wake words will become more prominent.

Todd Mozer // 29 Sep 2020

Netflix's "The Circle" Provides a Glimpse into the Future of Speech Recognition

The future is now for voice recognition technology as industries from automotive to healthcare embrace the technology.

Probal Lala // 16 Mar 2020

The Internet of Things Is Getting Emotionally Intelligent

As IoT devices have exploded, we're approaching a new paradigm in which the internet-connected devices in our lives are emotionally intelligent and able to react to and interact with the world.

Rana Gujral // 20 Nov 2019

Speech Industry News

• iRobot Voice-Enables Home Robots with Amazon Alexa
• Voice Assistant Applications Market to Be Worth $11.2 Billion by 2026
• Knowles Launches Raspberry Pi Development Kit
• ABI Expects 2 Billion Devices to Have NLP or Ambient Sound Chips by 2026

Speech Industry Q & A

• Q&A Michael McTear: Breaking Down Conversational Artificial Intelligence
• Q&A: Jon Stine, executive director of the Open Voice Network, about the future of open voice.
• Q&A: Jonathan Eisenzopf, chief technology officer at Discourse.ai, about using human-to-human corpora to train bots faster
• Q&A: Dirk Schnella-Walka, research scientist for multimodal system architecture at modality.ai, about the standardization of intelligent personal assistants.

The View from AVIOS

The Future of Intelligent Voice Assistants

Will you have one voice assistant or many? Which model will dominate?

Phil Shinn // 16 Aug 2021

Interact

Digital Assistants and Privacy: Artificial Intelligence Weighs in

AI has some thoughts about whether it knows too much about you

Kashyap Kompella // 30 Nov 2020

Inside Speech

Amid the Pandemic, Speech Technologies Expand the Telehealth Options

The telehealth approach is now providing treatments across the healthcare spectrum

Kevin Brown // 01 Aug 2020

Interact

Voice Interfaces and Contactless Interactions

A shift in our preferences toward eliminating or reducing touchpoints seems inevitable

Kashyap Kompella // 01 May 2020