The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers

As speech technology’s inevitable march to mainstream use gathers momentum, consumer giants are increasingly dominating the field. This year’s Star Performers include Amazon and Google, whose virtual assistants and growing ecosystems are moving smart homes closer to everyday reality; IBM, whose Watson cognitive computing platform is paving the way to conversational agents; and Microsoft, whose Cognitive Services portfolio of AI and neural networking have led to breakthroughs in speech recognition accuracy. But industry stalwarts like Nuance (the venerable Dragon speech recognition and dictation software), Sensory (the leader in on-device voice wake-up, with TrulyHandsfree), and Acapela (a trailblazer in text-to-speech) continue to hold their own as innovators. Read about all their achievements here.

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers, presented in alphabetical order:

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Acapela

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Amazon

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: AppTek

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Beyond Verbal

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Canary Speech

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Cobalt

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Google

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: IBM

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Microsoft

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: Nuance

The 2017 Speech Industry Star Performers: rSpeak