Speech Technology eWeekly - October 12, 2022

Features

2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: Deepgram Is the Startup Speech-Enabler

Some could argue that Deepgram reinvented automatic speech recognition (ASR) with a complete, deep learning model that yields faster, more accurate transcriptions with lower hardware and usage costs. Now the vendor is giving away $10 million in free speech recognition to developers.

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Winterlight Tests Show Speech-Based Measures Can Detect Changes in Alzheimer's Disease

Winterlight Labs worked with Genetech to test digital biomarker technology on Alzheimer's progression and had great success.

Stats Perform Partners with Veritone for AI Commentary

Veritone's synthetic speech technology will power Stats Perform's live sports commentary.

VKontakte Opens Its Platform for Speech Developers

Russian social network VKontakte has opened its platform for developers to build speech interfaces for the virtual world.

Toyota Partners with Google Cloud for AI-Powered Speech Services in Toyota and Lexus Vehicles

Toyota to leverage Google Cloud for vehicle-native Speech On-Device in next-generation multimedia system.

Allyable and Verbit Partner

Verbit and Allyable have teamed up to accelerate AI-based digital content accessibility compliance.

Minerva CQ Adds Support for Italian

Minerva CQ has added Italian language support to its automatic speech recognition (ASR) using the NVIDIA Riva software development kit.

VAI Partners with Mountain Leverage for Voice-Enabled Workflows

VAI customers can now leverage voice-picking technology through S2K Enterprise solutions.