Speech Technology eWeekly - October 07, 2020

Voice Value

Automated Solutions Have Become Work-from-Home Agents, Too

Adoption and interest in AI-infused capabilities got better because things got worse

Speech Technology News

ReadSpeaker's TTS Chosen for Honda Personal Assistant

Honda has selected ReadSpeaker's text-to-speech software for the Honda Personal Assistant.

Merrell Leverages Voicify with Alexa & Google Assistant

Merrell's Voicify-powered mobile apps help users to find hiking trails just by asking their voice assistants.

Aware Introduces Voice Enhancements with Knomi 2.11

Knomi 2.11 features advanced voice authentication, speaker recognition, and liveness detection.

Red Box Partners with RingCentral

Red Box and RingCentral are teaming up to deliver voice and video capture integrated with unified communications. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

NVIDIA Launches Jarvis and Merlin  in Open Beta

Jarvis eases creation of interactive conversational artificial intelligence agents, while Merlin speeds up data loading and training time to improve recommendations for online businesses.

Deepgram Announces UniMRCP Integration

With Deepgram UniMRCP integration, companies can add speech recognition to their IVR systems. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)