Speech Technology eWeekly - April 08, 2026

Case Studies

Southwest General Reduces Documentation Time with Oracle Speech Tech

Southwest General clinicians generated approximately 81,800 notes and reduced workloads with Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent Clinical Note.

Speech Technology News

Neuphonic Partners with Rapport

Neuphonic-Rapport partnership delivers fully on-device avatars for games, film and interactive media.

Microsoft Launches MAI Models for Speech and Voice

Microsoft's new speech models are Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-1 and MAI-Voice-1 for speech recognition and generation.

Microsoft Launches Paza Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Languages

Microsoft Paza strengthens speech recognition for underserved languages.

Cohere Releases Cohere Transcribe

Cohere Transcribe is a new automatic speech recognition model.