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Text to Speech

Technology solutions with the capabilities to interpret electronic text and generate audible speech from the text are becoming more commonplace as people find more uses in everyday products. See below for the latest text-to-speech news, trends, and solutions.

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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.

The Editors of Speech Technology // 13 Sep 2023

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.

The Editors of Speech Technology // 13 Sep 2023

2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: ReadSpeaker Embeds TTS in Many More Platforms

With almost 25 years of experience in developing text-to-speech solutions, ReadSpeaker today offers one of the largest selections of expressive, humanlike voices in the industry.

The Editors of Speech Technology // 13 Sep 2023

2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: SoundHound AI Brings Speech Breakthroughs to the Mainstream

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.

The Editors of Speech Technology // 13 Sep 2023
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How Voice Cloning is Transforming Podcasting

The potential of voice duplication and synthetic voices is huge for podcast creators, offering efficiency and lowering the barriers to production and distribution.

Arto Yeritsyan // 11 Jul 2023

AI Voice: Working with, Not Against, Humans

Companies can leverage automated voice in new ways, building fuller, more authentic connections with their audiences.

Rupal Patel // 13 Sep 2022

The Need for Continuous Speech Recognition Testing

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

Florian Treml // 22 Feb 2022

What is Readability? And How to Make Documents Accessible

These tips will help make sure screen readers can clearly convey your content.

David Gevorkian // 08 Sep 2020
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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.

Leonard Klie // 14 Jul 2023

AI Is Making UCC and the Contact Center into an Increasingly Powerful Combo

Teaming up these AI-fueled solutions yields a variety of shared capabilities and benefits.

Nancy Jamison // 19 May 2023

ChatGPT: Why the Hype and How Does It Affect Speech Technology?

The AI chatbot is a fascinating step forward, and soon it could be much more,

Kevin Brown // 28 Feb 2023

Why Can’t Speech Tech Have a New York Accent?

With a population of 8.8 million within the five boroughs, and nearly 19 million if you include the suburbs, one would be hard-pressed to call the New York metro area a small subset of any U.S. population group.

Leonard Klie // 16 Nov 2022
Speech Technology Reports and Research

Flip the AI Switch to Brilliant Customer Satisfaction

Sponsored by NICE

28 Sep 2023

Applying Analytics and Sentiment to Understand CSAT

Sponsored by NICE

10 Jul 2023

Case Study: Learn How to Achieve Above 90% Improvement in Call Categorization

Sponsored by LumenVox

05 Jun 2023
Text to Speech Companies and Suppliers