Meta Challenges Whisper with ‘Massively Multilingual Speech’ Launch
Meta says its new system, which offers text-to-speech and speech-to-text for more than 1,100 languages, has half the word error rate of Whisper. Critics say, Apples and oranges.
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Speechless Recognition: Can AI Transcribe a Language It Has Never Heard?
Breakthroughs in multilingual speech models are rapidly expanding language coverage for ASR. But what about endangered languages with little to no training data?
Deepgram: From Dark Matter to Deep Learning Speech API With Scott Stephenson
Deepgram CEO, Scott Stephenson, on scaling state-of-the-art speech API for enterprise and next-gen AI platforms, response to Whisper, and future of voice AI.
How Big of a Deal Is ‘Whisper’ for ASR and Multilingual Transcription?
Open-source AI model Whisper uses multilingual, diverse datasets, and weak supervision to build an ASR system that can transcribe and translate.
What Is Respeaking and How Does It Improve Multilingual Subtitles?
Interlingual respeaking combines the best of human and machine technology to produce better multilingual captions and subtitles. Here’s how.
thebigword Owner Susquehanna Leads Speechmatics’ USD 62m Series B
Speech-to-text company Speechmatics raises USD 62m; declines “frothy” valuation; aims for GBP 100m in annual recurring revenues.
Appen Updates Investors on Productizing Linguistic Expertise
Among the platforms and workflows featured in Appen’s 2022 Investor Technology Day: Ontology Studio, which “productizes core components” of Appen’s “linguistic expertise.”
In Tech-Assisted Interpreting, the Tricky Problem of Non-English ‘Person Names’
New research shows that automatic speech recognition and speech translation systems also improve when training data includes multiple instances of a given name.
Machine Translation in Subtitling: New Job Profiles, New Skills, New Era
Technological advances are affecting the audiovisual-translation landscape, shaping a new skill set for professionals aspiring to compete in the AVT market; and these job profiles are here to stay
How Translators and Post-Editors Benefit From Speech Technologies
From increasing productivity to allowing a more flexible, translator-centered, ergonomic workflow and workspace, this is how translators and post-editors benefit from speech technologies.
Captioning and Translation Provider Ai-Media Grows 29% in First Half 2022
Captioning and translation provider Ai-Media grew 29% to AUD 29.6m in the first half of 2022, led by technology revenue shift, growth in North America, and Broadcast customers.
Media Localizer Take 1 to Acquire Transcription Provider Verb8tm
Localization and access services provider Take 1 to acquire transcription and captioning company Verb8tm to expand US presence and boost tech offering.
Dutch Transcription Startup Amberscript Raises USD 10m in Series A
Dutch transcription, speech recognition, and subtitling startup Amberscript raises USD 10m from Endeit Capital, a growth capital firm founded by former Endemol Media executives.
10 Areas Where Translators Are (and Will Remain) Essential Experts in the Loop
Where translators make the difference in mission-critical cases around subtitling, politics, brand marketing, language technology, and more.
First in English, Soon in 12 More Languages: YouTube Offers Live Auto Captions for All
YouTube lifts 1,000-subscriber cap on access to live automatic captions for content creators. Video transcripts soon to be available on mobile devices as well.
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