Speech Technology eWeekly - June 02, 2021

Features

Seniors Increase Use of Assistive Speech Tech

The growing aging population is a market ripe for voice-enabled technologies.

Speech Technology News

Knowles Releases White Goods Standard Solution to Bring Voice Control to Smart Home Appliances

Knowles' White Goods Standard Solution is a development kit that allows manufacturers to integrate voice into their smart home appliances.

Voice Biometrics Market to Hit $3.9 Billion by 2026

MarketsandMarkets projects a 22.8 percent compound annual growth rate for voice biometrics over the next five years.

YuJa Adds Auto-Captioning for Live Events in Second Quarter 2021 Updates

YuJa's latest platform release includes a new digital compliance tool, auto-captioning for live stream events, a new version of software capture, accessibility upgrades, and more.

Zammo.ai Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Zammo's AI Voice platform is now available in Microsoft's Azure marketplace. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

LiveVox Introduces LiveVox Bot

LiveVox Bot offers an intelligent virtual assistant for personalized conversations. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)

Industry Voices

The Assistant Paradigm Is Hindering the Use of Voice User Interfaces

Voice assistants can't be used for more complex user tasks because of the lack of real-time feedback.