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Text to Speech

Technology solutions with the capabilities to interpret electronic text and generate audible speech from the text are becoming more commonplace as people find more uses in everyday products. See below for the latest text-to-speech news, trends, and solutions.

Features

Voice Is Poised to Take a Quantum Leap

Exploring quantum computing's expected impact on the speech technology market.

The Top Speech Technologies and Vendors: The 2024 Speech Industry Awards

Artificial intelligence is now integral to speech technology, a fact reflected by our winning vendors.

2024 Speech Industry Award Winner: aiOla Speaks Your Business’ Unique Language

Speech technologies have typically had a hard time understanding jargon, abbreviations, and acronyms, but Israeli startup aiOla is changing all that.

2024 Speech Industry Award Winner: Capacity Deepens Voice and Contact Center Capabilities with Acquisitions

AI software company Capacity has been on an acquisition spree over the past year or so, grabbing up a number of fairly prominent speech technology vendors to expand its contact center capabilities.

Industry Voices

Why Speech Researchers Need Better Benchmarks

Long-form speech recognition is here and growing. With updated datasets, we can accurately train and test ASR models for real-world use cases.

Preventing Deepfake Phishing from Leaving Customers on the Hook

Customer service personnel need to be trained to detect and react to deepfake phishing attempts. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

How Voice Cloning is Transforming Podcasting

The potential of voice duplication and synthetic voices is huge for podcast creators, offering efficiency and lowering the barriers to production and distribution.

AI Voice: Working with, Not Against, Humans

Companies can leverage automated voice in new ways, building fuller, more authentic connections with their audiences.

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Speech’s Next Big Thing Is Moving Fast

Quantum computing is making a resurgence, and speech tools could be beneficiaries.

Speech Industry Award Winners Fuel a Market on the Rise

Their efforts in the past year have left an indelible mark on the entire speech industry, brought the technology to new heights and new markets, and generated a lot of buzz along the way.

Speech Technology and the Expat Community

Translation apps can help retirees adjust to new surroundings.

Speaking of Speech Tech’s Future, It Suddenly Arrived

Let's not take all of this progress for granted.

Text to Speech Companies and Suppliers