Speechmatics launches Czech Republic office
A brief history of my role at Speechmatics In 2014, I joined Speechmatics as an intern in Cambridge which was set to last just a couple of months. Back then I was doing my PhD on Recurrent Neural Network Language Modeling (RNNLMs), focusing on their GPU acceleration, something that Speechmatics had already done themselves. My […]
How to speed up your projects using the Athens Project
This month, we hosted our monthly Go meetup at our offices in Cambridge, welcoming the programming community to come and learn more about the up-and-coming language. The meetup is a fantastic opportunity for people of all knowledge levels and experience with Go to come and learn more about its application and to network with like-minded […]
Speechmatics has a new SaaS offering
Speechmatics has a new SaaS offering for cloud-based speech transcription which is hosted in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The new service delivers extensive scalability and elasticity to support dynamic load whilst also providing feature parity across all of Speechmatics’ deployment options. The new SaaS is intended for business partners on service contracts, focusing on a […]
Talking AI at London Tech Week 2019
Last week was London Tech Week, a week that aims to unite tech and talent in a world-class hub of innovation. There were lots of emerging themes for conversation throughout the week, including Connecting Global Markets, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Although all topics provided lots of excitement amongst the Speechmatics team, I had a particular […]
Children Master Scratch at ChYpPS Coding Club
Having formed a partnership with ChYpPS youth group last year, Speechmatics now delivers monthly coding workshops for children involved in the Cambridge-based community. This month, I was joined by two volunteers from Speechmatics as well as Laura and Stuart from Frontier Developments. Together, we delivered a coding workshop for the local children at Brown’s Field […]
Can Peppa Pig really educate future generations?
When you think of subtitles – or captions – what springs to mind? That they are useful when you can’t turn the sound up on your phone in a public space? That they provide accessibility and understanding to videos and tv programmes for the deaf or hard of hearing community. Me too… until recently when […]
Taming the Deep Learning Beast, Hands on with PyTorch
Last week, we attended the Cambridge Python User Group Meetup at the Raspberry Pi offices on Hills Road in Cambridge. The Python meetup is a great place for people of all levels of Python knowledge to come together to learn more about the programming language and meet other like-minded people. The sessions are usually arranged […]
How to accurately benchmark speech technology providers
Speech-to-text accuracy (also discussed as word error rate or WER) and the number of languages supported are often quoted benchmarks when comparing speech-to-text products. But when looking at benchmarking from an operational perspective, there are many other factors that come into play that can make an integration exercise either very simple or much harder than […]
Single Sign On, Sri’s experience of using Golang
Last week, we welcomed the Cambridge programming community to Speechmatics’ offices in Cambridge where we host our monthly Go Meetups. Speechmatics’ Go Meetup is a chance for people interested in Go to come together in Cambridge and share their experiences of using the programming language. It’s a way to learn best practices and ask open […]
Shaping the future of learning and development
Last week, the Speechmatics team were encouraged to take part in Learning at Work Week, with three unique sessions planned in throughout the week. This year, Learning at Work Week coincided with Mental Health Awareness Week and so we took this opportunity to include a workshop focused on mental health. This years’ theme was “Shaping […]