Speech Recognition news and trends

India Uses AI to Bring Voice-Activated Mobile Payments
artificial intelligence // August 20, 2023

India is using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand digital payments to rural areas. As the Financial Times (FT) noted in a report Saturday (Aug. 19), while India’s Universal Payments Interface (UPI) is now used by around 350 million, it has had trouble breaking into the country’s more...

Top News In Payments: Sensory, OEMS Team For Independence From The Cloud; PBOC Says Stablecoins...
News // December 26, 2019

In today’s top news, Sensory released TrulyNatural, its speech recognition and natural-language-understanding platform for smart appliances, and China’s Central Bank says stablecoins threaten the yuan’s international development. Also, Apple shares are predicted to continue to soar with the introduction of their 5G iPhones. Sensory Teams...

How TD Bank Uses Voiceprints To Personalize — And Secure — Call Center Interactions
call center commerce // September 04, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) remains one of the most interesting technologies to call centers that are looking to better support and engage customers across their many channels. Whether bank or business, call centers need to make sure they’re providing an innovative, robust experience for the customer...

Google Offline Voice Recognition App Debuts On Pixel
Google // March 13, 2019

Google’s new voice recognition app, which works entirely offline, is now available to anyone with a Pixel. “Our new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer is initially being launched to all Pixel phones in American English only,” wrote Johan Schalkwyk, a Google fellow of its Speech Team,...

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Top News In Payments: Sensory, OEMS Team For Independence From The Cloud; PBOC Says Stablecoins Threaten Yuan

December 26, 2019
In today’s top news, Sensory released TrulyNatural, its speech recognition and natural-language-understanding platform for smart appliances, and China’s Central Bank says stablecoins threaten the yuan’s international development. Also, Apple shares are predicted to continue to soar with the introduction of their 5G iPhones. Sensory Teams With Appliance OEMS for Smart Voice Platform Privacy concerns regarding […]

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Roblox Acquires Speech Recognition Firm Speechly

September 20, 2023
Speechly, a company specializing in tools for speech recognition and natural language understanding, has been acquired by Roblox, a platform for 3D immersive communication and connection. This move aims to enhance the voice features of Roblox, including voice chat, and improve the moderation of spoken language in real time, Hannes Heikinheimo, formerly co-founder and chief technology officer […]

India Uses AI to Bring Voice-Activated Mobile Payments

August 20, 2023
India is using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand digital payments to rural areas. As the Financial Times (FT) noted in a report Saturday (Aug. 19), while India’s Universal Payments Interface (UPI) is...

Google Offline Voice Recognition App Debuts On Pixel

March 13, 2019
Google’s new voice recognition app, which works entirely offline, is now available to anyone with a Pixel. “Our new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer is initially being launched to all Pixel...

Flipkart Buys Voice AI Startup Liv.ai

August 21, 2018
Flipkart, the Indian eCommerce player being acquired by Walmart, has acquired Liv.ai, the Bengaluru startup working on speech recognition platforms using artificial intelligence. According to a report in BGR citing...