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SyncWords Launches Vocalics for Real-Time Dubbing

SyncWords' Vocalics is a live AI voice dubbing technology that captures and preserves the tone, rhythm, and emotion of the original speaker.

Verbit and Deepdub Partner on Multilingual Dubbing

Verbit and Deepdub are automating multilingual dubbing powered by Deepdub's eTTS technology.

National Captioning Institute Launches Lightning Captions

Lightning Captions provides real-time transcription and translation for the classroom.

SyncWords Introduces Ultra-Low Latency AI Captions with Kobe Muxer

SyncWord's Kobe Muxer is a video captioning solution with near-real-time availability.

XL8 Delivers Real-Time Spanish Translation Captions to U.S. Public Broadcasters

XL8 Spanish translation captions mark the first commercial use of AI-based real-time translation technology in broadcasting.

ChatGPT: A Generative AI Revolution

The AI landscape was altered forever, and OpenAI led the charge.

SyncWords Is Now on AWS Marketplace

SyncWords makes its Live AI Captioning and Dubbing available via AWS Marketplace.

Speaksee Raises Funds for Speech Recognition App for Hearing-Impaired People

Dutch startup Speaksee has raised more than $1.1 million to further develop its captioning apps and fuel its international expansion.

Cineverse Partners with XL8

Partnership will enhance Cineverse's Matchpoint content management and distribution platform with XL8's captioning and localization.

Case Studies Provide Answers to Real-World Problems

Here's how some of your peers have solved problems similar to yours.

Apple Adds Voice-Based Accessibility Features

Vocal shortcuts, captioning, and voice control are among the features that Apple will roll out this year.

Why Speech Researchers Need Better Benchmarks

Long-form speech recognition is here and growing. With updated datasets, we can accurately train and test ASR models for real-world use cases.

SyncWords Awarded Patent for Automated Voice Translations in Live Video Streams

SyncWords' new patent covers simultaneous multilingual dubbing of video-audio programs.

Safety and Ethical Concerns Loom Large in Voice Cloning

AI makes synthetic speech sound more realistic than ever—and therein lies the danger.

Audiovisual Speech Recognition Takes ASR to the Next Level

Humans rely on audio and visual cues to comprehend speech, and ASR should do the same.

2024 State of AI in the Speech Technology Industry: AI Is Revolutionizing Translation, Dubbing, and Subtitling

Improved accuracy, wider language choices, and real-time options are among the benefits.

Sonic Foundry Sells Mediasite Business to Enghouse

The Mediasite platform for streaming, video recording, virtual meetings, polling, analytics, captioning, and more, will become part of Enghouse Systems.

Automatic Dialogue Replacement Will Translate to Big Profits

Voice-to-voice translation is one of the most potentially lucrative uses for voice cloning technology.

Gallaudet University and AppTek Establish GoBoVo to Develop Accessible Applications for the Deaf

GoBoVo will work to develop captioning and translation apps for videoconferences and other audio content.

Real-Time Transcription Serves an Immediate Need (or Lots of Them)

Contact centers are seeing all kinds of potential use cases,

Captions Unveils Lipdub App

Captions' Lipdub lets users translate and dub their voices into 28 languages.

Spotify Tests Voice Translation Feature

Spotify is testing a feature that translates podcasts into other languages while keeping the speaker's voice.

StreamText Releases Automatic Speech Recognition Caption Technology Powered by AI

StreamText ASR uses artificial intelligence to help users create captions from any audio source.

2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: Speechmatics Inches Closer Toward a Universal Translator

Speechmatics, a provider of automatic speech recognition software based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modeling, is on a mission to make its speech-to-text technology usable by 70 percent of the world's population in the next three years.

2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: SyncWords Leads in Live Captioning, Dubbing, and Subtitling

The New York-based company reportedly last year captioned and subtitled more than 15 million minutes in video on-demand, processed more than 500,000 minutes of content with speech recognition, and live-captioned more than 300,000 minutes of events.

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.

Artec Launches ASR with Integrated Translations

Artec Technologies' AI-based speech recognition has an integrated translation function for real-time media captioning and monitoring.

The Future of Dubbing: Automatic Media Voice Translation

Artificial intelligence is ushering in a new era in translation.

Voiceitt2 Launches for People with Speech Disabilities

Voiceitt2 offers transcription, dictation, and AI integrations for users with speech disabilities.

Cineverse Launches MatchCaption

MatchCaption is the latest offering in Cineverse's Matchpoint AI stable.

3Play Media Finds AI Has Led to Significant Improvements in Speech Recognition

Study finds great advances in accuracy, but even the best engines performed below industry standards.

What Does Scaling Mean for the Speech-to-Text Industry?

Speech-to-text services have gained accuracy, but scaling will require additional compute power.

SyncWords Launches Platform for In-Player Live AI Captioning, Subtitling, and Dubbing

SyncWords now enables translation, captioning, and dubbing directly within streaming media players.

XL8 Launches Projects for Voice-Based Translations

XL8's Projects is the latest version of its MediaCAT translation and localization platform.

Voiceitt Adds Transcriptions and Captions to Cisco Webex Meetings

Voiceitt's speech-to-text technologies are now available to users of Cisco's Webex collaboration platforms.

2023 Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech Technology in Government

Public-sector entities can improve customer service, delivery of benefits and services, efficiency, transparency, and more.

AppTek Updates Automatic Speech Recognition, Isometric Neural Machine Translation, and Speaker-Adaptive Dubbing

AppTek is rolling out a fully automatic dubbing solution featuring speech recognition, isometric neural machine translation, speaker-adaptive speech synthesis, solutions for language identification, voice conversion, subtitling, automatic captioning, and other AI tools.

SyncWords Launches AI Live Dubbing

SyncWords' AI Live Dubbing can translate virtual and hybrid events in up to 40 languages in real time.

3Play Media and Brightcove Partner on Video Accessibility

The partnership enables Brightcove customers to request video captioning and other services from within the Brightcove platform. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com).

VoiceInteraction to Launch 7.0 Product Suite

VoiceInteractions 7.0 includes automatic speech recognition for captioning and broadcast compliance monitoring.

3Play Media Introduces Virtual Caption Encoding

3Play Media's Virtual Caption Encoding eliminates the need for additional live captioning hardware, delivering captions to streaming platforms.

FMG Launches Social Media Content Captioning and Personalization

FMG has introduced one-click AI-powered personalization of social media content including custom captions.

Vonage Adds Speech Capabilities to Video API

Vonage Video API now comes with translation, captioning, and transcription capabilities.

SyncWords Launches Automatic Live Captions and Subtitles in 48 Languages

SyncWords' automatic captioning solution is backed by Speechmatics' speech recognition.

RE/MAX Lets Agents Add Voice Recordings

Partnership with DO AudioTours lets real estate agents add audio descriptions with captions to property listings.

The 2023 State of Assistive Technology

New rules and initiatives are helping make devices more accessible.

The 2023 State of Artificial Intelligence

AI's influence on speech continues to expand.

Vuzix Blade Powers Xander's Real-Time Captioning XanderGlasses

XanderGlasses with Vuzix Blade software provide captioning for live conversations.

Vuzix Adds Xpertinc's C-Sound Captioning to Blade Smart Glasses

Vuzix Blades now support Xpertinc's closed captioning C-Sound solution for the deaf and hearing impaired.

Verbit Launches Media-Focused ASR

Verbit launches a speech recognition solution tailored for the media industry following its acquisition of VITAC.

Captionmax and NCC Relaunch Under the 3Play Media Brand

Following their acquisition in February, Captionmax becomes a part of 3Play Media and NCC rebrands as 3Play Media Canada.

2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: SoundHound Has Driving Ambitions for Speech

SoundHound, an audio and speech recognition company founded in 2005, has advanced as one of the top providers of in-car voice systems, elevating the automotive voice experience from a legacy command-and-control interface to more intuitive conversational functionalities for drivers and passengers.

2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: Speechmatics Makes Speech Recognition Truly Automatic

Speechmatics develops speech recognition software based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modeling. The company, which was founded in 2006, recently collected $62 million in funding to advance its global expansion and infrastructure improvement plans.

2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: Verbit Acquires the Top Spot in Transcription

Verbit, an Israeli company, provides artificial intelligence-powered captioning, transcription, translation, and audio description technology and services backed by humans for added accuracy.

2022 Speech Industry Award Winner: Veritone Voices All Sorts of Projects

Veritone is an artificial intelligence tech company based in Irvine, Calif. Established in 2014, it has as its centerpiece the aiWARE hyper-expansive enterprise AI platform, the foundation for its extensive voice technology lineup.

Echo360 Adds Captioning from Rev

Rev is providing captioning for instructional videos from Echo360.

SyncWords Launches SyncWords Offline

SyncWords Offline complements machine translations with human and AI capabilities.

XRAI Glass Provides Captions for Conversations

XRAI Glass provides subtitles of live conversations on the inside of the lenses.

Captioning and Subtitling Market to Reach $476.9 Million by 2028

Valuates Reports expects the subtitling and captioning solutions market to grow 7.7 percent CAGR for the next six years.

Hamilton CapTel Launches Auto Captions

Hamilton CapTel introduces Auto Captions, providing fully automated computer-generated captions for telephone calls.

Vertical Markets Spotlight: Speech in Financial Services

Commerce, convenience, and compliance top banking's use of voice.

Crooked Media Partners with Adobe on Podcast Captioning

Using Adobe Premiere Pro's Speech to Text, Crooked Media introduces captioning on popular podcasts.

Speechmatics Partners with ENCO for Captioning

Speechmatics' deep learning-powered speech-to-text engine powers automated AV captioning and transcription for ENCO's enCaption5.

SyncWords Offers Commencement Captioning

Schools can now use SyncWords to provide captioning and translations for graduation ceremonies.

Interprefy Brings Live Translations and Captioning to Global Events

Available as an add-on for meeting platforms, Interprefy will provide automated live translation services for any event, business meeting, or conference.

AppTek Launches OmniCaption 300

AppTek's OmniCaption 300 is a broadcast-ready live automatic captioning appliance.

Verbit Acquires U.S. Captioning

U.S. Captioning acquisition increases Verbit's footprint in the media and entertainment sector.

Veritone and OOONA Partner to Create Synthetic Audio Description for Silver Trak Digital

Partnership integrates Veritone Voice with OOONA's platform for creating and managing media localization projects.

Voice Recognition Market to Hit $10 Billion by 2028

Global Market Insights has upped its predictions for the voice recognition market.

Captioning Finally Makes It to Mobile

Hamilton CapTel unveiled a mobile captioned telephone app for people with hearing loss.

Academy Awards Feature Captions and Audio Descriptions

When the Oscars are presented on Sunday, VITAC and Audio Eyes are providing captioning and audio descriptions during ABC's broadcast.

SyncWords Expands Zoom Captioning and Translation Capabilities

SyncWord's AI-based captioning service now supports more than 50 languages for real-time translation of Zoom meetings.

Verbit Acquires Take Note

The Take Note deal furthers Verbit's European expansion plans and heralds its entrance into the market research transcription area.

The 2022 State of Assistive Technology

Expanding opportunities to improve everyday lives.

The 2022 State of Artificial Intelligence

Accuracy improves, but privacy concerns loom.

SoundHound to Provide Captioning for Snap Videos

SoundHound and Snap have extended their partnership to bring auto captioning to Snapchatter videos.

Adobe Beefs Up Its Speech to Text

Speech to Text captioning in Premiere Pro is up to three times faster.

Verbit Acquires Automatic Sync Technologies

Verbit expands transcription and captioning for the government and education industries with its acquisition of Automatic Sync Technologies.

NCI Sees 160% Increase in Demand for Captioning Amid COVID

The National Captioning Institute turned to automated speech recognition to meet growing demand for closed captioning.

Kaltura and Verbit Expand Partnership for Video Captioning

Video technology provider Kaltura and captioning provider Verbit have broadened their partnership to provide video captioning amid rising demand.

Verbit Raises $250 Million

New funding will help Verbit expand its presence in the transcription and captioning market.

Captioning Sees an Impressive Pace of Progress

Technology advances are making real-time captioning possible, and progress has just begun.

MediaPlatform Adds EEG Captioning to Its Webcasting Platform

MediaPlatform has integrated EEG's captioning within its Broadcaster live webcasting platform.

Kudo Adds Live Captioning

KUDO launches live captioning in 10 languages to its multilingual meetings platform.

Qumu Adds Transcriptions and Captioning

Qumu now offers on-demand asynchronous video transcriptions and captioning for on-demand video.

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.

2021 Speech Industry Award Winner: AppTek Takes Captioning to New Screens

AppTek has a long history of innovation in the areas of artificial intelligence, speech recognition, machine translation, natural language processing and understanding, and text-to-speech technologies, and finally it is getting the worldwide recognition it deserves.

2021 Speech Industry Award Winner: Microsoft Buys Big with Nuance

Nuance had long been considered an acquisition target, and Microsoft finally pulled off a deal in April worth $19.7 billion. Microsoft reportedly plans to use Nuance's technology to augment its cloud products for healthcare, which were launched last year.

Rev.com Partners with Film Festival Alliance on Captioning

Rev.com is making its captioning service available to Film Festival Alliance members at a discount.

YuJa Adds Auto-Captioning for Live Events in Second Quarter 2021 Updates

YuJa's latest platform release includes a new digital compliance tool, auto-captioning for live stream events, a new version of software capture, accessibility upgrades, and more.

Verbit Acquires VITAC

Through its acquisition of media captioning company VITAC, Verbit expands into a new market.

ClearCaptions Increases Call Captioning Speed and Accuracy

ClearCaptions receives FCC certification to Incorporate speech recognition.

Williams AV Launches Convey Video for Real-Time Translation,  Captioning, and Archiving

Convey Video can transcribe and translate up to 27 languages and more than 70 dialects and also includes speech-to-text transcription and archiving of all events

Simon Says Launches AI Transcription Extension for Adobe Premiere Pro

Simon Says' extension for Adobe Premiere Pro lets users transcribe, translate, and caption media in 100 languages.

The State of Assistive Technology

Advances bring accessibility to more platforms and devices

RingCentral Acquires Conversational Intelligence Pioneer DeepAffects

DeepAffects brings emotion recognition, real-time closed captioning, and automatic speaker recognition to RingCentral's video meeting platform.

Cisco Expands Speech Capabilities as Part of WebEx Upgrades

Enhanced speech technologies in the latest WebEx version include improved recording, transcription, and closed-captioning capabilities.

Verbit Collects $60 Million in Funding

AI-based transcription and captioning platform provider Verbit raised $60 million in its latest funding round.

Let’s Take Action Before It’s Too Late

Has technology reached a point where it's nearly impossible to rein in, where legislation will never be able to catch up with the speed of advancing technology and innovation?

Simon Says Brings AI Transcription to DaVinci Resolve

Simon Says can transcribe, translate, and edit clips and captions with in sync frame-accurate video and text in DaVinci Resolve.

AppTek Integrates Speech and Translation Technologies into PBT EU's SubtitleNEXT 

AppTek embeds its speech and artificial intelligence technologies into the SubtitleNEXT captioning and subtitling platform.

AppTek Partners with Gallaudet on Captioning Project

AppTek and Gallaudet University are working together to bring better transcription and captioning to web and videoconferencing applications.

Mitigating Bias in Speech Recognition Systems

The fault, dear Siri, is not in our voices, but in our choices

YouTube Taps Rev.com as Recommended Vendor for Captioning

Rev.com offers YouTube video creators true-to-video captions, seamless integration, and fast turnaround at a special discounted rate.

Clear2Connect Coalition Strongly Opposes FCC Decision on Captioning with Automatic Speech Recognition

Clear2Connect Coalition calls into question the FCC's ruling that allows telephone captioning using only speech recognition.

Rev.com Launches Free Live Captions for Educators

Rev offers free access to its speech recognition engine to support online learning accessibility and comprehension.

Captioning and COVID-19 – Who’s Not Getting the Message?

Speech recognition offers the solution to the immediate need for captioning as COVID-19 stretches human transcriptionists to the limits.

Otter.ai Releases Live Video Meeting Notes

Otter.ai's Live Video Meeting Notes provide interactive transcripts for remote work and distance learning.

AppTek Integrates with OOONA

AppTek's advanced speech and language technologies will extend OOONA's translation, subtitling, and captioning platform

iQor Enhances its Speech Analytics Platform

iQor has improved the speech-to-text transcription of calls in its speech analytics platform.

Verbit Collects $65 Million in Funding

The AI-powered transcription and captioning platform provider will use the funding to accelerate the development of its platform and continues its exponential growth.

How Speech Technologies Can Level the Playing Field

Speech tech is a major driver behind assistive devices—ones that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and benefit from faster processing speeds and internet connectivity—that are helping people with all sorts of disabilities

Rev.ai Launches Real-Time Automated Transcription and Captioning

Powered by Rev's proprietary speech engine, the Rev.ai API makes it easy for developers to build speech recognition directly into applications and services. The new capability processes live audio or video . 

SyncWords Integrates Automated Subtitling and Captioning with Microsoft Azure

SyncWords, a cloud-based video accessibility platform provider for automated captioning and subtitling tools, announced that its solution is now available on Microsoft Azure and uses Azure Cognitive services.

Verbit Launches AI-powered, Real-Time Transcription Solution

AI-driven transcription company introduces a solution for generating speech-to-text through Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART) technology.

Telestream To Unveil New Cloud Media Processing Products, Including Live Captioning

Uniquely positioned to help media organizations address rising costs and quality issues for multi-platform, multi-versioned content distribution wherever media resides.

CaptionMaker Subtitle Software Supports Over 100 Languages and Auto Transcription

Provides direct access to Telestream Cloud timed text speech auto-transcription service from within CaptionMaker application.

Verbit Introduces AI-Transcription Technology to Eight U.S. Universities

Technology enables universities to support both students and academic departments by expanding learning opportunities through widespread access.

As ADA Lawsuits Mount, Speech Tech Emerges as Key to Compliance

If you build in the right speech technology tools, you could avoid costly litigation and bad publicity

Market Spotlight: Education

Speech technologies are transforming classrooms.

Live Captioning Comes to Google Slides

Google announced, during Accessibility Awareness Month, that it is adding a live captioning feature to its G Suite presentation app Slides.

New Version of Wirecast Brings Closed Captions and Restreaming to Live Production

New Wirecast web services enable affordable access to live captioning and distribution services.

Google Aims to Improve Call and Video Transcription with New Cloud Speech-to-Text

Google introduces new voice and video transcription models.

Q&A: Recent Deep Neural Net (DNN) Advances in Speech

For over 30 years, David Thomson has developed and managed software and algorithm creation for speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech compression, and voice biometrics and managed speech R&D for voice interface systems than have handled over 20 billion calls. He is presenting the SpeechTEK Univeristy course, "Recent Deep Neural Net (DNN) Advances in Speech," at SpeechTEK 2018. He recently joined CaptionCall, a company that builds services for the deaf and hard of hearing. Conference program chair James A. Larson interviewed Thomson in advance of this year's event.

Telestream Introduces Integrated Closed Caption Inserter & Multiscreen Live Streaming Solution

Telestream, a provider of file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming, and delivery technologies will introduce a unique one-box-solution for closed caption encoding to multiple live streams.

Automatic Captioning Comes to YouTube Live

Changes are coming to YouTube Live streaming, including automatic captioning in English.

Instructure Partners with Speechmatics for Video Captioning

Instructure adds captioning for video content created with its Arc platform.

ENCO Collects Patent for enCaption

The patent covers advances in the speech recognition related to ENCO's enCaption closed and open captioning solutions.

Speechmatics Launches Real-Time Virtual Appliance

New captioning software offers greater control, flexibility, and real-time capabilities.

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: AppTek

AppTek Announces Media Syncing Platform

AppTek's Auto-Sync Platform aligns existing transcripts to the original media asset.

AppTek Launches Speaker-Change Recognition

AppTek integrates its latest speaker change technology into its closed captioning platform.

VoiceInteraction Updates Closed Captioning and Media Monitoring Solutions

VoiceInteraction releases new versions of its solution to produce automatic closed captions and its robust Media Monitoring system, both targeted for TV broadcasters and media-related companies.

AppTek Launches Streaming Audio API

AppTek's Streaming API service allows for live transcription of streaming audio using automatic speech recognition.

ReadSpeaker Expands Learning Options at York Technical College

With text-to-speech, the school's students learn how they want

Market Spotlight: Advertising Has More Draw When Speech Is Included

Voice technologies are hard at work ensuring advertisers that their messages are getting out

AppTek Partners with AD Digital

AppTek's speech technologies will strengthen AD Digital's portfolio for media solutions in Brazil.

Emergent Partners with AppTek

Partnership brings speech recognition to Emergent's customers.

Hamilton Relay Offers Captioning for Businesses

Hamilton CapTel for Business, interconnected by Tenacity, accommodates those with hearing loss in the workplace.

AppTek to Provide Captioning for Sky News Arabia

AppTek's speech recognition tool will provide Arabic captioning to Sky News Arabia's broadcasts.

California Awards Captioning Contract to Hamilton Relay

Hamilton Relay is awarded a statewide contract to provide relay and captioned telephone service in California.

The 2016 State of the Speech Technology Industry: Assistive Technology

TranscribeMe Launches Services for Media and Entertainment

Speech recognition and human transcribers can provide closed captioning and subtitles

Tennessee Awards Hamilton Relay Telephone Captioning Contract

The state renewed its contract with Hamilton Relay to convert the audio from phone calls to text for the hard-of-hearing.

The 2015 Speech Industry Luminaries: Drew Lanham

TranscriptionWing Launches Video Captioning Service

Transcription company gives the deaf and hard-to-hear equal access to video and electronic communications.

Nexidia Illuminates Captioning Solutions

New suite enables broadcasters to comply with FCC regulations at scale.

Nexidia Begins Shipping QC v2.3

The software validates the quality of closed captioning, video descriptions, and language translations.

ABC-CLIO Adds TTS, Translation Services

Video learning modules, text-to-speech and translation capabilities provide educators new approaches to teaching historical concepts and critical thinking.

Hamilton Relay to Provide Relay Service in Pennsylvania

The relay and captioning service for the deaf relies on voice recognition and live operators.

PBS Implements Nexidia QC to Verify and Sync Captions

Nexidia QC automatically syncs closed caption for PBS stations, over-the-top, and Web content.

Nexidia Releases QC v2.3

Nexidia QC v2.3 features caption retiming and expanded support for international formats and languages.

Speech Tech Vendors See Opportunities in Closed Captioning

Star Performers: Nexidia's Analytics Addresses 'Enormous Volume and Scale'

Hamilton Relay Awarded Contract for District of Columbia

Hamilton Relay will provide telephone relay and captioning service for the DC Relay program.

Speech Is Set to Dominate the Wearables Market

A voice interface opens a world of possibilities for wearable devices.

AppTek Integrates Omnifluent Technology with AP ENPS

AppTek's Omnifluent transcription and translation products are now available through AP's news production system.

SnapStream Releases Version 6.1 of Its TV Monitoring Solution

SnapStream 6.1 includes language intelligence for improved search results.

AppTek Acquires the Omnifluent Human Language Technology from Leidos

The deal includes all automated speech recognition and machine translation software covering more than 30 languages and dialects.

Hollywood Tools Releases Closed Captioning App

uSubtitle.TV lets users generate transcripts and subtitles for audio and video content in English or Spanish.

Voice Translation Hits Its Stride

Cross-language communication is globalizing business and affecting the world.

Maryland Awards Relay Contract to Hamilton Relay

The five-year contract covers relay and captioning of phone calls for the deaf.

ENCO Systems Selects HP Autonomy for Audio and Video Processing

Closed captioning can be done any time of day or night using Autonomy's IDOL technology.

StreamText.Net and The Captioning Studio Launch WebCaptioning.com

New solution offers improved captioning quality for online video content.

AT&T Launches U-verse Voice-Enabled Remote App

Latest U-verse enabled app includes gesture and voice controls.

Enabling the Disabled

Developments in assistive technologies are removing barriers for many.

Koemei Unveils Cloud-Based Speech Recognition and Transcription Solutions

The company debuts its Web services platform and API.

Nuance Names the Winners of Its I Speak Dragon Contest

Hundreds of people shared their stories of how speech technologies help in their personal and professional lives.

Maine Relay Begins Offering Mobile Captions Service

Hamilton Relay's Voice Carry Over (VCO) capabilities are now available via mobile device for residents of Maine.

Hamilton Relay to Caption Calls for Captioned Telephone

Company adding positions to its headquarters in Aurora, Nebraska to handle captioned telephone calls.

Hamilton Relay to Provide Captioning for Telephone Services in Virginia

This latest implementation puts Hamilton Relay in 18 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

CPC Releases Real-Time Speech Recognition-Based Closed Captioning

New YouCaption software allows users to upload captioning to audio, video, and phone conferences in near real time.

On Speech We Can Agree

Passage of legislation heralds new opportunities for the disabled.

Consumer Cellular and Hamilton Relay Premiere Mobile Captions Service

Service is similar to closed-captioning for television programming.

Market Spotlight: Assistive Technologies for the Disabled

Speech as an enabler has room to grow.

Hamilton Relay Selected to Provide Captioned Telephone Services in Tennessee

The company now provides captioned telephone services in 18 states and the District of Columbia.

New Application from Hamilton CapTel Allows BlackBerry Users to Read Calls

The application will be helpful to the hearing impaired.

omNovia Will Provide a Translation Solution for Webinars

The solution can also be leveraged with CRM and social media, such as Twitter.

U.S. Rep. Giffords Adds Speech Technology to Her Web Site

Audio Eye makes congresswoman's official Web site accessible to the disabled via TTS and video captioning.

Accessibility in Voice and Multimodal Applications

Multimodal interfaces can make or break the user experience.

YouTube Expands Video Transcription Option for All

Businesses can benefit from an expanded audience base.

YouTube Expands Video Transcription Option for All

The move is seen as a shot in the arm for speech technologies.

Voice Technologies Power Hamilton Captioned Telephone Service

A new service is being implemented in Louisiana for people with hearing loss.

Speech in a Digital World

The transition to digital television presents new opportunities for TTS.

STT Gives a New Voice to TTD

Sprint yesterday released WebCapTel, a free Web-based service that gives deaf or hard-of-hearing users the ability to read transcripts of telephone conversations while speaking to the other person.

NPR For the Deaf: All People Considered

National Public Radio unveiled plans to offer the first readio service for the deaf and blind

IBM Puts Speech on Display

Company execs cite vision to break down barriers with speech-enabled services.

ProCAT Chooses Wizzard Software and IBM's ViaVoice SDK to Speech Enable WinnerVR Transcription Software

PITTSBURGH - ProCAT has chosen Wizzard Software and IBM's ViaVoice Speech Recognition (ASR) Software Development Kit (SDK) and runtimes for their WinnerVR real time transcription software.

Listening to the Court of Appeals

My recent article on transcription (STM March/April 2005) prompted appeals for more information about voice writing. Here are answers to some of your questions.

Think Globally, Act Locally: AVIOS Evolving

AVIOS (Applied Voice Input/Output Society) was launched as a non-profit society for speech technology professionals nearly 25 years ago. Speech recognition and synthesis were not widely deployed at the time, and there were no forums for interested parties to convene and share "best practices." Leon Lerman, the founder of AVIOS, noted this gap and set off to address it. As AVIOS grew, it became the conference for anyone with an interest in speech technology application…

Transcription: What's It Good For Anyway?

Human-computer dialogue systems have claimed center stage in the speech industry bowinghappily to the kudos of an accepting marketplace. This is the inverse of the state of affairs that existed in the mid-1990s when PC-based dictation using statistical processing was clearly the industry's star. Shrink-wrapped general dictation products were awarded extensive shelf space in computer stores and the speech industry had visions of a speech revolution built atop boxes of Dragon NaturallySpeaking® (DNS) and ViaVoice. …

Linda Drake, President, National Verbatim Reporters Association

As president of the National Verbatim Reporters Association (NVRA), oversees the United States' authority for voice writing. NVRA members document the official record of congressional hearings, court proceedings, administrative hearings, depositions, conferences and similar events and proceedings. Drake discusses how using state-of-the-art voice and stenographic methods, NVRA reporters maintain the highest standards of speed and accuracy in the field of court reporting.

Despite Great Progress, Engine and Interface Challenges Remain

Speech-to-Text (STT), the automatic creation of text by voice, has always been the flagship of automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. Converting any string of spoken words to readable text holds out the promise of eliminating the tedium of typing or the cost and delay of human transcription. In order to fulfill this promise automatic speech recognition for transcription should be as easy and casual as asking your assistant to take some notes. The idea is to just add a microphone to a PC and begin speaking.

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Speech on the Web

As computer based information and the devices used to access and interact with computers have proliferated world wide, the definition of a computer user has grown to encompass a broadening set of individuals. Because of the visual and motor interface foundation of most computer systems, users who are blind, have low vision, or have perceptual and learning styles that differ from traditional models, are frequently denied access to computer based systems without the support of assistive technology.