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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 one voice-based service. To that end, Synaptics will offer particular expertise on the subject of multiple wake words, which allow users to activate and navigate […]
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 is hoping that the English version will allow it to reach Western markets and fuel a larger global expansion effort. Posicube currently offers two primary […]
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 voice assistant and live chat capabilities. The solution will allow Albertsons to be more responsive to the needs of people who are doing their grocery […]
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 working to develop more accurate speech recognition technology for children. The solution acknowledges that children typically have different speech patterns than adults, so speech recognition […]
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, exceeding Nuance’s guidance for revenues and earnings per share. At first glance, the reported revenues of $418.2 million, compared to revenues of $419.7 million in […]
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 a CAGR of 17.2 percent. Meticulous credits the anticipated demand to technology advancements that will make it easier to integrate voice and speech recognition into […]
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 users to say any three words, and what3words will provide them the address and GPS coordinates that they’re trying to get to. The Voice API […]
Frost & Sullivan is predicting that digital assistants will become an increasingly important component of automotive branding in the next five years. Digital assistants allow drivers to control various navigation, safety, and entertainment features with simple voice commands to minimize the number of distractions they face while on the road. They also provide an opportunity […]
Facebook has announced that it will be making its wav2letter@anywhere online speech recognition framework more readily available as an open source platform. The framework was developed by Facebook AI Research (FAIR), which claims that it has created the fastest open source automatic speech recognition (ASR) platform currently on the market. “The system has almost three […]
ID R&D’s voice liveness detection technology has bested the competition in the 2019 Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures (ASVspoof) Challenge. The biannual industry challenge evaluates solutions based on their ability to distinguish real speech from false speech that has been generated using Text-to-Speech or voice conversion technology. ID R&D’s solution proved to be the […]
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