New speech technology changes speakers’ accents
Startup Sanas received $32 million in seed capital, including a contribution from Google. The company's technology changes the accents of speakers. Investors have high expectations, but abuse is lurking.
Sanas is in its infancy. At this time, the startup is exclusively active in the United State... Read more
Meta AI resolves background noise issues with AV-HuBERT
Facebook’s parent company Meta may resolve the greatest hurdle in speech recognition platforms: background noise. The firm integrated visual cues examination to filter out external chatter in its speech recognition platform.
Background noise has been a great problem in contemporary speech reco... Read more
Microsoft confirms Nuance acquisition for 16.5 billion euros
Microsoft has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Nuance. Nuance specialises in speech recognition and processing, a technology that Microsoft would like to use for the healthcare industry.
In a blog post, Microsoft says that the company will pay 56 dollars (47 euros) per share... Read more
‘Microsoft wants to acquire Nuance, the speech recognition company’
Microsoft is said to be in talks with Nuance about a possible acquisition. Nuance specialises in speech recognition and processing, a technology that Microsoft would like to use for solutions in the healthcare industry. Although the solution could be used in many more Microsoft products.
The r... Read more
Google releases several updates for its Search engine
Google announced several improvements to its core search engine, focusing on the deployment of AI to help users. With these improvements, the search engine will better answer questions with specific answers or those with very broad scopes.
The company also announced a new algorithm that will han... Read more