voice technology
French startup Nijta hopes to protect voice privacy in AI use cases
France-based startup Nijta, whose flagship product Voice Harbor anonymizes voices for AI, raised €2 million in funding from various sources, including deep tech VC fund Elaia.
RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’
It takes as little as 30 minutes to get RedRoute set up, and customers can try the software with zero upfront costs.
To commercialize, voice tech must first solve its ‘cocktail party problem’
Our voice technologies have not been engineered to confront the messiness of the real world or the cacophony of our actual lives.
It’s a new world, and voice tech is shaping it.
Alexa, where are the legal limits on what Amazon can do with my health data?
The contract between the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and ecommerce giant Amazon — for a health information licensing partnership involving its Alexa voice AI — has been released following…
GM is bringing Amazon Alexa to 2018 and newer Cadillac, Chevy, Buick and GMC vehicles
General Motors is adding Amazon Alexa to the infotainment systems of its Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles in the first half of next year — one of the broadest…
Spotify launches voice-enabled ads on mobile devices in a limited US test
Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company’s earnings call with investors. The streaming service today is announcing the launch of…
Amazon Alexa launches its first HIPAA-compliant medical skills
Alexa is moving into healthcare. Following a trial of Amazon’s smart speakers in patients’ rooms at Cedars-Sinai, the company this morning announced an invite-only program allowing select developers to create…
Walmart partners with Google on voice-enabled grocery shopping
Following the latest wave of price cuts at Amazon’s Whole Foods, announced Monday evening, Walmart today introduced its own plans to challenge Amazon on grocery shopping through a partnership with…
Creative agency Virtue introduces genderless voice Q to challenge biases in technology
Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Bixby — almost all virtual assistants have something in common. Their default voices are women’s, though the role that plays in reinforcing gender stereotypes…
Snapchat launches its first speech recognition lenses
Snapchat is today launching new lenses that respond to voice commands. The company says it’s now rolling out a series of lenses that will animate when users speak simple, English words…
Years ago, in the heyday of home video, I played a board games that used VHS tapes and electronic parts to help spur the action along. From Candy Land VCR…
Advancements in AI technology have paved the way for breakthroughs in speech recognition, natural language processing and machine translation. A new startup called Voicery now wants to leverage those same…
Audioburst launches a web and mobile search engine for audio news
Audio is beginning to play an increasingly important role in how consumers connect with information, thanks to the popularity of podcasts and other short-form audio programming, improvements in voice technologies,…
