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Signifying the growing power of competitive gaming, the best e-sports players will now receive medals as part of the 2022 Asian Games.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Artificial intelligence is now integral to speech technology, a fact reflected by our winning vendors.

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

Evolve Business Intelligence valued the voice recognition market at $9.7 billion last year.

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.)

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

Data Bridge Market Research expects the text-to-speech market to grow at a compound annual rate of 30.20 percent.

Deepdub's new technologies address the increasing need for scalable, high-quality localization solutions by Hollywood studios and global dubbing houses.

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