Last week, Speechmatics’ employees took to the streets of Cambridge on a City-wide, riddle solving treasure hunt. Employees were split into equal teams before scouring Cambridge for clues and riddles placed in numerous locations around the City by our very own Pirate Pete… “G’Arghh.” Before the start of The Great Speechmatics Treasure Hunt, teams were ...Read moreAutomatic Speech RecognitionSpeech-to-textSpeechmaticsTeam BuildingTreasurematics
Speechmatics exhibited at its very first NAB Show in Las Vegas from 9-12 April. NAB Show is the largest event for the media, entertainment and technology industry, with thousands of professionals showcasing cutting-edge technology throughout the week. The team demonstrated Speechmatics’ new real-time ASR feature, Custom Dictionary. The feature allows users to quickly add context-specific ...Read moreASRNAB Show 2018Real TimeSpeech RecognitionSpeech-to-text
Last month, Speechmatics attended Enterprise Connect in North America, the leading conference bringing together vital IT decision makers to discuss topics central to enterprise communications and collaboration. Speechmatics were delighted to be shortlisted as finalists in the ‘Innovation Showcase’ which was focused specifically on speech technologies for 2018. The conference lasted for three days and ...Read moreASRAutomatic Speech RecognitionEnterprise ConnectReal TimeSpeech RecognitionSpeech-to-text
Speechmatics is excited to announce that it will be attending NAB Show in Las Vegas from 9-12 April 2018. NAB Show is the ultimate event for the media, entertainment and technology industry, showcasing ground-breaking innovation and powerful solutions. Last year saw over 102,000 professionals from more than 160 countries descend upon Vegas, witnessing some of ...Read moreASRAutomatic Speech RecognitionNAB 2018Real TimeSpeech-to-text
It is clear that we’re living in a speech revolution, with the advent of Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs – or more commonly recognised as Siri and Alexa) allowing us to communicate with our computers and phones more efficiently through our own voices. But will talking ever overtake typing? Some experts think it will, and sooner ...Read moreASRAutomatic Speech RecognitionSpeech RecognitionSpeech TechnologySpeechmaticsSpoken Web
A group from the Speechmatics team swapped their desks with the snowy French Alps last week as they embarked on a team ski trip. On arrival to Nice the team were met with lots of rain and fog – certainly not a winning combination when it comes to skiing – nevertheless, the team was resilient. ...Read moreASRAutomatic Speech RecognitionSpeechmaticsSpeechmatics CultureTeam Building
Why are speech-to-text services hard to use? I came across a blog from Luis Quintanilla where he produced a console app to transcribe podcasts using the Microsoft Speech API. The thing that instantly struck me was the hoops that he had to jump though to transcribe the podcast. The app had to: • Transcode the ...Read moreAPIMicrosoft Speech APISpeechSpeechmaticsTechnologyVoice
With the voice revolution upon us there is more controversy than ever around voice and speech recognition technologies. Virtual Personal Assistants – or VPAs – are the most widely adopted consumer products using short form voice recognition technology but they have been criticised lately for several reasons. I want to focus on one key issue ...Read more
