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Medallia has announced that it has completed the acquisition of real-time speech to text company Voci Technologies. The acquisition by Medallia — a customer experience management company — will see Voci’s AI-driven platform merged with its own Medallia Experience Cloud solution to provide a single view of customers for its clients. As a result of […]
Customer experience management company Medallia, Inc. has announced that it has reached an agreement for the acquisition of real-time speech-to-text company Voci Technologies. Medallia’s acquisition will allow it to take Voci’s real-time speech-to-text platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to gain actionable insights from 100% of customer calls, and combine it with its own experience […]
Researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have managed to create highly realistic 3D reconstructions of individual faces using data collected from video recordings from a smartphone camera and deep learning algorithms. Typically, the process of creating accurate 3D reconstructions of a human face requires expensive specialized scanners, cameras and a studio, not to mention […]
The speech recognition specialist Deepgram has received $12 million in Series A funding. NVIDIA, Y Combinator, Compound, and SAP.iO, all participated in the funding round, though the round was ultimately led by Wing VC. Deepgram plans to use the funds to build better speech recognition solutions for enterprise-level customers. The company is specifically working on […]
Spain-based facial recognition company Herta has announced it is launching a new version of its facial recognition algorithm that is able to identify people wearing masks. This comes as the world is dealing with the outbreak of COVID-19, which was recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Herta had been working on […]
Sensory Inc., a pioneer in embedded voice and biometric AI technologies, announced an update to its TrulyHandsFree wake word engine giving it support for multiple wake words from a number of leading brands. The new capabilities for TrulyHandsFree also allow for custom-branded wake words, where the user can create their own word or phrase to […]
The mobile biometrics revolution of the last several years has helped to drive excitement about a number of modalities, with voice being one of the most prominent. Voice has emerged as a key user interface on smartphones thanks to virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri, and on smart home devices via platforms like Amazon’s Alexa. People […]
“With its integration of CyberLink’s FaceMe biometric engine, the robot is able to identify known customers, and to determine demographic information pertaining to age and gender.” CyberLink‘s facial recognition technology has been incorporated into a new robot that’s just hitting the Taiwanese and Japanese markets. It’s the result of a collaboration between the Taiwan-based facial […]
Looking back, the FindBiometrics Year in Review survey question about artificial intelligence was a bit of a no-brainer. Question 14 asked respondents to indicate how much they agreed with the following statement: “Artificial intelligence will make voice, speech, and face recognition biometrics integral to everyday life.” Eighty-three percent of respondents agreed, with 37 percent saying […]
Scientists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Michigan State University say they have engineered a new algorithm that could eliminate the need for humans to perform a key step in fingerprint analysis, and thereby reduce human error in forensic investigations. The algorithm tackles the first step in an investigation of latent fingerprints […]
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