California-based RingCentral has announced the acquisition of conversational artificial Intelligence (AI) startup DeepAffects, in a deal that is expected to allow it to offer smarter video meeting capabilities to its […]

Nuance Communications has expanded the scope of its partnership with Cerner Corporation. The latter is already using Nuance’s Dragon Medical Platform in its Cerner Millennium electronic health record solution, and […]

An AI startup has released a new tool to measure bias in speech recognition systems. The Artie Bias Corpus (ABC) was put together using Mozilla’s Common Voice corpus, and includes […]

Synaptics has become the latest member of Amazon’s Voice Interoperability Initiative, and will now be working with the tech giant to improve the utility of IoT products with more than […]

The South Korean voice recognition startup Posicube has announced that it is hoping to launch an English-language version of its platform in 2021. The company was founded in 2017, and […]

The US grocery retailer Albertsons is turning to Nuance Communications to deliver better online services to its customers. Albertsons will specifically be deploying Nuance’s Intelligent Engagement Platform, which includes a […]

The Dublin-based speech recognition specialist SoapBox Labs has secured $6.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Elkstone Capital and Astia, amongst other investors. SoapBox is currently […]

Nuance Communications has issued its results for the first quarter of its 2020 fiscal year. The company’s Q1 is for the quarter ended December 31st, 2019. The results were strong, […]

Meticulous Research has released a new report that predicts that the market for speech and voice recognition technology will climb to $26.8 billion between 2019 and 2025. That figure represents […]

The speech recognition specialist what3words has released a new end-to-end Voice API that was designed to help people figure out where they’re going. To that end, the API will allow […]