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It's a big day for SpeechmaticsĀ® š£š , we have the people, product and culture, now we have our Series B š°š°š° to supercharge our growth š Today, we announced our $62M Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), with participation from existing investors, AlbionVC, and IQ Capital! This is such exciting news for us as we look to expand globally and ultimately unlock the understanding of more and more voices to deliver leading accuracy in #speechtotext. Read more in our announcement via TechCrunch (below) #growth #funding #speechrecognition
In celebration of Pride Month and the UKās 50th Pride Anniversary, our Head of Talent, David Field is focusing on an issue close to our heart ā workplace diversityš³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø He share's the importance of aligning diversity practices and organisational goals, including our very own approach to hiring, over on our SpeechmaticsĀ® blog. Give it a read š
The Digital Markets Act was recently published to ensure āfair and open digital marketsā. Our CEO, Katy Wigdahl has written an opinion piece for The AI Journal about the recent legislation. Katy says: "It is my hope that this legislation will pave the way for smaller tech players to be heard and provide consumers with a variety of options when it comes to selecting the right technology. With policies in place such as the āgatekeeperā platform and robust fines, there will be more accountability for all. A level playing field means everyone has a chance to win". Check out the piece linked below ā¬ļø
In line with #EarthDayš, our CEO Katy Wigdahl discusses the environmental impact of machine learning and what we must do to #InvestInOurPlanet: https://bit.ly/38MjDZx
An exciting day for SpeechmaticsĀ®! Weāre taking accuracy to a whole new level with our latest upgrade š Entity formatting has always been a challenge for speech recognition up until now. With our latest product update, transcripts are more readable and consistent in 11 languages.
Our CEO, Katy Wigdahl has been accepted into the Forbes Technology Council š The Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives. As a member, Katy will be invited to connect and collaborate with like-minded leaders, as well as share her insights on Forbes business articles.
On October 26th, Speechmatics launched its Autonomous Speech Recognitionā software. Learn more about the latest release via TechCrunch! "The company credits this success to a relatively new approach to creating a speech recognition model. Speechmatics used self-supervised learning, a method thatās gained steam in recent years as datasets, learning efficiency, and computational power have grown. In addition to labeled data, it uses raw, unlabeled data and much more of it, building its own āunderstandingā of speech with far less guidance. In this case the model was based on about 30,000 hours of labeled data to get a sort of base level of understanding, then was fed 1.1 million hours of publicly available audio sourced from YouTube, podcasts and other content".
Speechmatics launched its āAutonomous Speech Recognitionā software on October 26th as featured in CNBC. Using the latest techniques in deep learning and with the introduction of its breakthrough self-supervised models, Speechmatics outperforms Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft in the companyās latest step towards its mission to understand all voices. Our system had an overall accuracy rate of 83% for African American voices. Thatās higher than Microsoft (73%), Amazon (69%), Google (69%), IBM (62%) and Apple (55%), according to research published by Stanford University in 2020 which compared results from major tech companies on how accurately their speech recognition programs understood African Americans. Read the full article in CNBC below.
Speechmatics has been featured in the FT 1000 for the third year running! The Financial Times 1000 provides a snapshot of Europeās most promising, high-growth companies and signals Speechmaticsā tremendous business growth. Itās great to see Speechmatics representing Cambridge technology for our any-context speech recognition engine which enables companies to build innovative applications to derive meaning and value from voice data. See the full list below!
