Tag: speech technology

NVIDIA Launches Open Dataset for Multilingual Speech AI

NVIDIA releases an open-source dataset and new artificial intelligence models optimized for translation across 25 European languages. The company aims to bridge the gap in speech technologies for underrepresented languages.
Fabio Minazzi

Fabio Minazzi: The Gift of Voice

People with vocal disabilities often use digital speech synthesizers that feature standard, robotic-sounding voices. Translated’s Fabio Minazzi hopes to change that through an innovative voice donation platform and expressive AI voice rendering — an initiative that won him the top prize at LocWorld 52’s Process Innovation Challenge.

Five AI Advancements Shaping the Language Industry in 2024

Discover how neural machine translation, speech technologies, dubbing, chatbots, and transcreation are shaping the language industry — enhancing efficiency while maintaining the importance of human expertise.

Training AI to read your lips — in multiple languages

While most speech recognition tools analyze audio alone, researchers have also made progress in developing visual speech recognition (VSR) models, which rely on visual input to identify what a speaker is saying.

A speech tech boom? Airgram raises $10 million in Series A

The tape recorder may have been the original speech technology but now there's Airgram, Otter.ai, Speechmatics, and a whole lot more.