The updated standard will contribute to the reliability and safety of roofing systems by accurately evaluating the tensile resistance and failure loads of adhesives and board stock.

In County Essex, England, a man’s Ring camera captured a black cat's daring leap from a ledge to a shed roof, leaving viewers breathless as the feline hangs precariously before returning to safety.

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.

Aligned Exteriors Group has partnered with Trinity Exteriors, adding the Minneapolis-based company to its Midwest brand portfolio. Trinity's owner, Ted Swanson, will continue in his current role.

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.

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.

Roofing Services Solutions, a Dunes Point Capital portfolio company, has acquired Earl W. Johnston Roofing, expanding its Florida presence to 10 locations and 200 employees.

Nastar Roofing owner William Skaggs and payroll administrator Billie Adkison admitted to a $2.5 million employment tax fraud scheme, paying employees in cash but failing to withhold taxes or report that income to the IRS. 

YouTube turned 12 this week and is marking the milestone with a redesign of its desktop site.

Read more: YouTube reveals new Material Design desktop site

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

Read more: Another nail in TV’s coffin: YouTube to produce 7 original series this year

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

Read more: Breakthrough app aims to smash taboos about training during your period

Twitter announces new effort to tackle the spread of fake news.

Read more: Twitter plans ‘fake news’ button, but fears it could be gamed

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

E-sports is already drawing massive crowds to packed arenas, and now League of Ireland teams are looking to join in.

Read more: League of Ireland teams establish major national e-sports tournament

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.

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.

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.

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.

A quarter of the world's population uses voice search, and the numbers are only going to rise.

The insights come faster and are more comprehensive

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

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

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

The company's first product, AI Dubbing, enables users to automatically translate any speech into up to 20 other languages while maintaining the original speakers' voice qualities.

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

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

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.

Exploring quantum computing's expected impact on the speech technology market.

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

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

CRM magazine has named its five picks in 11 categories, pointing the way forward with the best products and capabilities hitting the market in customer service, marketing, and sales. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)

Jabra ClearSpeech reduces background noise to improve speech accuracy for call centers.

Android update offers image description and screen reader capabilities.

Technavio projects 34 percent CAGR for smart speakers driven by voice commerce and smart home popularity.

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

Colossyan's Instant Avatar turns 20-second videos into avatars capable of speaking 70 languages.

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.

Vida's AI phone agents now deliver emotionally expressive, multilingual conversations through OpenAI integration.

Zoom plans to use Suki's AI engine, Suki Platform, to power AI features related to telehealth visits.

MedicsSpeak and MedicsListen support voice-to-text data input and real-time conversational clinical data capture.

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MARTA M.- A finales de junio comenté en este mismo espacio el lamentable hábito de las barbacoas en la playa durante todo el verano. Hoy quiero abundar en el tema porque se están profesionalizando: ya vienen con generador eléctrico. Sí señores, se acabó pagar el restaurante o pasarte el día limpiando y recogiendo los restos del cumpleaños del niño/a. Ahora se lleva ussted el bufet y los invitados a la playa (o a un parque) y ya lo tiene
todo servido.

Abrieron el local hace cuatro años y se hicieron virales al incluir el sueldo de los camareros en la carta Leer

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Circular por autovía podrá costar entre uno y siete euros de implantarse el sistema de tarificación que baraja el Gobierno Leer

El directivo insiste en los objetivos de electrificación de la compañía japonesa para 2026 y 2030 a pesar de la coyuntura actual. Leer