Some new schools will compete for this year’s top two spots, cash prizes and bragging rights at the 10th Annual Roofing Alliance Construction Management Student Competition.

A roofing accident across the pond serves as a reminder to take precautions when using lifts, especially when near roads and streets.

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

The 26th Annual FEI Group National Conference, themed "Organizational Health," brought industry leaders together for networking, expert presentations, and discussions on market trends, sustainability and leadership.

In September, U.S. construction spending rose by 0.1% to $2.14T, with private residential projects driving a slight increase; public-sector construction grew by 0.5%, totaling $495.2B.

RAFTR Roofing + Exteriors has partnered with fintech company GreenSky to streamline roof repair financing, enhancing customer access to “frictionless” payment options and accelerating sales and cash flow. 

Will Twitter’s redesign attract new users or has that bird already flown?

Read more: Twitter gets a facelift: Mobile redesign is tweet chic

A new front has opened in the war for eyeballs on the mobile screen.

Read more: Google takes on Facebook with new algorithmic news feed

Google Maps goes out of this world to mark the 48th anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon.

Read more: Google Maps brings Street View to the International Space Station

YouTube reveals significant upgrades across desktop and mobile app, including a sleek new logo.

Read more: It feels cinematic: YouTube rolls out a major redesign across mobile and desktop

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

Rise in voice banking requires a rise in voice-based support, verification, and AI.

Interoperability's been the biggest challenge, but standards are emerging.

Our roundup of the speech innovation taking place in eight important industry verticals.

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

Companies are beginning to apply traditional speech analytics to their automated conversations.

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.

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.

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 .

With almost 25 years of experience in developing text-to-speech solutions, ReadSpeaker today offers one of the largest selections of expressive, humanlike voices in the industry.

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.

ID R&D, a New York-based provider of liveness detection and voice biometrics, has quickly become a leader in addressing AI-powered fraud by combining passive facial liveness and voice anti-spoofing technologies.

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.

AI, AI, and more AI: The technology is disrupting everything, and it's found everywhere in our speech industry achievements for 2023.

Interface interoperability is becoming closer to reality, but more work is needed.

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

Voice brings accuracy and speed to Henry Schein's operations.

Golden Nugget is handling customer calls with PolyAI virtual assistants.

WellSpan Health delivers exceptional provider and patient experience with Nuance DAX Copilot

Voice documentation powers Lynch & Lynch's growth.

A look at how speech technology solved real-world problems in seven industry sectors.

Verint Speech Analytics saves money for Premier Bankcard.

Republic Services hauls in employee improvements with speech analytics.

AI innovations mean interaction analytics can provide more actionable insights.

Voiceitt, an Israeli provider of speech recognition for nonstandard speech, seeks to disrupt the voice accessibility market.

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.

Thanks to this Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of real-time speech understanding technology, agents have a choice in how they're heard and can proudly hold on to their unique voice characteristics.

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.

Cars are becoming better listeners, and one company driving that change is Israeli startup Kardome, whose system can reportedly capture and identify up to six speakers in three seat rows.