Startup Speechly raises over $2M to launch natural language and speech recognition technology
Conversational technology startup Speechly has raised €2 million (US$2.2 million) in a seed funding round led by Cherry Partners, with…
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New capabilities to compliment voice biometrics announced by Sensory, AWS, LumenVox
Sensory has announced support for multiple wake words among a set of new capabilities for its TrulyHandsfree offering, enabling custom…
SecuGen software, Xiaomi personal assistant, and Ping benchmark updates reflect biometrics adoption
A trio of updates related to biometric software indicate the growing scale the technology needs to work at, with millions…
Gyrfalcon Technologies and Sensory partner to deliver edge AI and biometrics capabilities
AI companies Gyrfalcon Technology and Sensory have joined forces to deliver low latency, high reliability embedded, machine learning capabilities on…
Nuance and Microsoft partner for automated health records with voice biometrics
Voice biometrics and processing provider Nuance Communications has formed a partnership with Microsoft to transform healthcare delivery with ambient clinical…
Researchers develop new method for ensuring quality in voice biometrics data collection
A new artificial intelligence-based method for collecting voice biometrics by ensuring the quality of automatic voice recordings has been developed…
McDonalds acquires Apprente to bring speech recognition to drive thrus
In an effort to bring speech recognition to the drive thru, McDonald’s has acquired conversational artificial intelligence startup Apprente, TechCrunch…
Deepfake voice technology claims first fraud victims
Criminal deepfake attacks have claimed their first victims, with a British energy defrauded of nearly a quarter-million dollars through a…
Biometric tech for cars unveiled as market forecast to exceed $300M in 5 years
Several biometrics companies and automakers have announced new research or technologies for connected cars, as the market continues to heat…
Microsoft contractor reveals Skype human annotation of user conversations
Microsoft contractors working on Skype’s translation function have been discovered to be listening to recordings of user conversations, in the…
