Speech Technology eWeekly -
December 23, 2020
Speech Technology News
Hyro Conversational AI to Help Hospitals with Patients Seeking COVID-19 Vaccinations
22 Dec 2020
Hyro's new VAXA voice solution will enable healthcare providers to automate vaccination appointment-setups and more.
Retune DSP's Wake Word Engine Now Available for CEVA Audio/Voice DSPs
22 Dec 2020
The VoiceSpot Wake Word Engine brings voice-wake and command and control to memory-constrained, battery-operated edge devices.
Dubber Acquires Mobile Recording Company Speik
22 Dec 2020
Speik acquisition expands Dubber's call recording and voice intelligence portfolio and geographic footprint.
ReadSpeaker Partners with SoundHound
21 Dec 2020
ReadSpeaker's text-to-speech technology is now available on Houndify's Voice AI platform.
RingCentral Acquires Conversational Intelligence Pioneer DeepAffects
21 Dec 2020
DeepAffects brings emotion recognition, real-time closed captioning, and automatic speaker recognition to RingCentral's video meeting platform.
Accenture and CereProc Introduce Non-Binary Voice Solution
16 Dec 2020
Accenture and CereProc collaborated on a voice solution that is not gender specific and released it to the open-source community.
Market Spotlights
Market Spotlight on Financial Services: Customers Talk Up Voice Banking’s Benefits
11 Nov 2020
Voice-activated banking was first made available to consumers in 2014 when ING introduced a voice interface named Inge for its mobile banking app. Since then, consumers have been forcing a technology revolution that financial institutions have not been able to hold back—or only do so at their own peril.