Audio Engineering Testbed!
Nearly four years after the Echo first went on sale in the United States, Amazon’s voice platform Alexa has grown into a sprawling ecosystem that connects thousands of different products and media formats, including audio and video. But Alexa’s flash briefings, one of the first plots of land that Amazon allowed third parties onto, remains…
SpeechKit is a service that provides news publishers access to the latest Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology. The service democratises these technologies by providing them as a platform and product integrations that are ready for newsrooms. Fitting in with existing workflows allows for the best text-to-speech processing with minimal hassle. Publishers can…
Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either ofthe two great factions of the coursers in the circus, called Prasini, and Veneti: nor in the amphitheatre partially to favour any of the gladiators, or fencers, as either the Parmularii, or the Secutores. Moreover, to endure labour; nor to need many…
Only a few weeks after launching a major overhaul of its Cloud Text-to-Speech API, Google today also announced an update to that service’s Speech-to-Text voice recognition service. The new and improved Cloud Speech-to-Text API promises significantly improved voice recognition performance. The new API promises a reduction in word errors around 54 percent across all of Google’s tests, but in…
This is a document to use to help communicate the SpeechKit mission, brand and product. It is intended that this will help direct website and other marketing material. What is SpeechKit? SpeechKit is a service that provides news publishers access to the latest Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology. The service democratises these…
One million page views! 50,000 signups! Five million posts! 165 million active users! Web companies like metrics — especially when big numbers can be used to woo the tech media into writing about us. Away from the publicity glare of the Valley tech blogs, every web company should have some not-so-bullshit metrics that guide the business…
The high startup failure rate and the increasing popularity of startup roles means that young people entering the workforce are perhaps more likely to experience redundancy than previous generations. This, so logic would have it, will be a traumatic experience that comes totally out of the blue. But should that really be the case? After…
Automation Killed The Radio Star, says the latest blog from Dick Taylor, a US radio writer. Two things about this. The first is the use of a lazy Buggles headline. Radio is still very much alive, with 9 out of 10 people in most large countries listening every week. Nothing has killed anything. I collect…
Bloomberg Media in May introduced a text-to-audio function in its app and online with the hunch that commuters would prefer to multitask while getting their news. According to Julia Beizer, global chief product officer, adoption started off slow, particularly on mobile web, and shortly after launch, people were listening to two and a half stories on…
Log into your WordPress Dashboard. Go to Plugins > Add new. Search for “SpeechKit” or download here Press ‘Install Now’ ‘Activate’ the SpeechKit Plugin. Go to Settings > SpeechKit. Copy and paste the Project Id below into settings then do the same for the API key. Tick ‘Enable SpeechKit’.