How to be an ally for women roofers in a male-dominated industry: NWiR session, initiatives, and background explained.

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

GAF volunteers recently helped provide tens of thousands of meals to people in communities affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. 

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.

The NRCA launched a new Spanish-only membership category, offering Spanish-speaking roofing professionals educational resources, certifications, and business tools tailored to their needs.

MRCA Associate Managing Director Bob Pope received the prestigious James Q. McCawley Award during the MRCA’s 74th Annual Conference, which kicked off on Oct. 22 in St. Paul, Minn.; 2023 winner Greg Bloom of Beacon Building Products presented the honor.

The MRCA honored companies and individuals for safety, innovation, and community impact at its 2024 Conference, including Independent Roofing's philanthropy and GAF's Roofing Academy.

See why the owner of Exterior Point Home Remodeling in New Jersey got the entire company involved in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

The Construction Association of South Florida awarded Gulfstream Roofing Inc. a Craftsmanship Award at its 66th Annual Awards, celebrating the company’s commitment to roofing excellence and quality workmanship.

Industry experts and trade groups, such as the Florida Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association, are urging Florida regulators to allow roofing contractors to install hurricane straps during reroofing.

Breaking new ground for the video game industry, a game called Everything, animated by Irishman David OReilly, could be up for an Oscar.

Read more: Irish animator’s video game is the first to qualify for an Oscar

Netflix viewers can now get creative and take control of the stories they watch.

Read more: Choose, or the cat gets it: Interactive storytelling arrives on Netflix

The idea is to help people understand what is best to do in a crisis.

Read more: Google adds SOS alert capabilities to Search and Maps

Two of the world’s most popular podcasts will descend on Dublin in September as a major festival gets out of the traps for the first time.

Read more: S-Town and My Dad Wrote a Porno on way to Dublin for podcast fest

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.

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.

AI makes synthetic speech sound more realistic than ever?and therein lies the danger.

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.

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.

AI software company Capacity has been on an acquisition spree over the past year or so, grabbing up a number of fairly prominent speech technology vendors to expand its contact center capabilities.

The software giant is hard at work bringing voice features to more PCs.

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

New research has expanded the use cases and the types of medical conditions that voice biomarker technology can address.

Verified Market Reports expects the North American voice recognition systems market to grow by 17.2 percent through 2025.

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.

Adobe partnership brings professional-quality audio to Wistia customers.

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

Microsoft has added conversational data integration into Fabric.

XL8's EventCAT subscription packages support multilingual translations in real time. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)

New research has found that drivers are ready for supercharged assistants with AI-powered natural language conversational capabilities.

Canary Ambient provides real-time voice analysis for clinical conversations.

Ircam Amplify's AI Speech Detector identifies a wider range of models used to generate fake voices.

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