Roofing industry volunteers assist Vegas locals in need during IRE Community Service Day, despite unseasonable weather.

CertainTeed and Renovate Robotics have partnered to pilot a roofing robot that automates asphalt shingle installation, aiming to enhance safety and efficiency.

The Rising Stars Program empowers the next generation of underrepresented youth aged 16-24 by providing opportunities for sustainable careers in construction, including solar panel installation and roofing.

This year’s event saw the largest turnout since it started in 2018, and had the support of over 20 different vendors, partners and sponsors, along with the entire BluSky executive team in attendance.

A roof collapse at a railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia, resulted in the deaths of 14 people, with several others injured. Rescue efforts continued throughout the night as crews worked to recover bodies from the rubble and assist survivors.

YouTube is producing more than half a dozen original series this year and plans to spend $100m on over 40 shows.

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Ireland-based Orreco has developed a new app to help athletes optimise their performances.

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Data-driven guidance provides a better agent and customer experience.

SoundHound AI, based in Santa Clara, Calif., this year launched, among other things, Chat AI, a voice-enabled digital assistant with generative artificial intelligence; and Smart Answering, which uses voice AI to handle inbound customer calls.

Resemble AI, providers of a platform that uses generative AI to create realistic-sounding voices, in July released Resemble Detect, which can validate the authenticity of audio data to expose speech deepfakes in real time .

When it comes to new technologies, few have had as much of an impact as generative artificial intelligence, ushered in by OpenAI in November 2022 with its ChatGPT launch.

NVIDIA saw blowout second-quarter results, surging margins, and incredible demand, which prompted one analyst from Constellation Insights to conclude that "it's clear the company has little competition and a lot of pricing power."

VALL-E, one of Microsoft's latest forays into artificial intelligence, is a transformer-based text-to-speech model that can re-create any voice from just a three-second sample clip.

D-ID, an Israeli company founded in 2017, is providing superpowers to individual creators and businesses alike, uniquely enabling them to transform any picture into an interactive video in seconds.

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

Deepfakes threats advance, and technology is challenged to keep up.

Voice and video creation tools continue to benefit from AI augmentation.

Speech systems will continue to get more conversational with AI advances.

The insights come faster and are more comprehensive

How generative (and other types of) artificial intelligence is impacting five important sectors.

TrueFan is a true fan of Resemble AI's TTS

The company is building toward a vision of a voice commerce ecosystem that enables consumers to access goods and services through natural conversation.

Boston-based Sonde Health has positioned itself as a leader in voice-based health monitoring, and the U.S. military has taken notice.

PolyAI continues to redefine what's possible with voice-first, artificial intelligence-powered automation in contact centers.

in yet another groundbreaking move, the San Francisco-based company gave ChatGPT a voice last September.

Speech technologies have typically had a hard time understanding jargon, abbreviations, and acronyms, but Israeli startup aiOla is changing all that.

Customers show a preference for helping themselves when self-service apps are up to it.

As technology-driven trickery becomes harder to detect, intent looms large.

Plan for both the short term and the long term.

As conversational assistants proliferate, they'll become harder to discover.

Here's how to ensure these tools can be used in mission-critical applications

Integrating voice technology, conversational AI, and CRM systems can vastly improve the customer journey. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)

Ultra-low latency voice AI technology, which can generate speech in just 25 milliseconds, could transform human-machine interaction across industries while potentially reducing screen time and making digital interactions more natural.

Speakly AI's conversational intelligence solutions have been certified for data security.

The "Machete" star voices a new AI assistant.

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

HitPaw's latest Edimakor release offers additional customization and personalization.

Canary Speech's Paired Neural Networks Technology is a form of voice biomarker technology that identifies subtle shifts in an individual's voice by analyzing it against previous samples from the same person.

Voicebrain's real-time voice analytics will help the airline industry capture and generate actionable insights from two-way radio communications.

MarketsandMarkets projects 44.8 percent CAGR for the AI agent technology market over the next six years.

PolyAI and OpenTable are offering enterprise restaurants and diners reservation support using voice AI.

Adobe partnership brings professional-quality audio to Wistia customers.

Wispr Flow provides voice dictation that works in every app on Macs with auto-edits and AI commands.

The integration of OpenAI with Twilio's Communications APIs will enable developers to create voice experiences. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Agora integrates with OpenAI to enable real-time conversational AI.

Microsoft has added conversational data integration into Fabric.

Funding will accelerate Gladia's transition from a speech-to-text API to an end-to-end audio infrastructure provider for agent assistance, sales enablement tools, and AI meeting assistants.

Parakeet expands with voice solution for patient engagement for healthcare providers.

New integration populates WellSaid Studio AI voiceover files into Adobe Premiere Pro.

In-vehicle voice assistant SoundHound Chat AI enhances the new Lancia Ypsilon's S.A.L.A. infotainment system.