This week we discuss voice year in review for 2021. All of the guests in this episode are based..
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The European Commission has ruled that Microsoft’s $19.7 billion acquisition of voice tech mainstay Nuance will not raise any competition..
Oracle announced it will purchase health technology developer Cerner for about $28.3 billion and is explicitly planning to expand its..
SK Telecom smart speakers can now converse in English as well as Korean using Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service (AVS), as..
Jon Stine is the Executive Director and founder of the Open Voice Network. Prior to founding OVN, Stine was global..
Cerence has a new car voice assistant designed to anticipate what drivers want before they ask named Cerence Co-Pilot. The..
Microsoft transformed Cortana from a consumer voice assistant to a business efficiency tool over the last few years. Still, Cortana..
The U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen Xerox’s Paolo Alto Research Center (PARC) to create an augmented..
Zurich Insurance Group is acquiring Estonian conversational AI startup AlphaChat to augment its customer service with virtual agents and chatbots..
AI non-profit consortium MLCommons has released two large speech datasets as open-source resources to improve speech recognition and voice technology...
