Industry experts and trade groups, such as the Florida Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association, are urging Florida regulators to allow roofing contractors to install hurricane straps during reroofing.

The New York-based company reportedly last year captioned and subtitled more than 15 million minutes in video on-demand, processed more than 500,000 minutes of content with speech recognition, and live-captioned more than 300,000 minutes of events.

Speechmatics, a provider of automatic speech recognition software based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modeling, is on a mission to make its speech-to-text technology usable by 70 percent of the world's population in the next three years.

SoundHound AI, based in Santa Clara, Calif., this year launched, among other things, Chat AI, a voice-enabled digital assistant with generative artificial intelligence; and Smart Answering, which uses voice AI to handle inbound customer calls.

Resemble AI, providers of a platform that uses generative AI to create realistic-sounding voices, in July released Resemble Detect, which can validate the authenticity of audio data to expose speech deepfakes in real time .

With almost 25 years of experience in developing text-to-speech solutions, ReadSpeaker today offers one of the largest selections of expressive, humanlike voices in the industry.

When it comes to new technologies, few have had as much of an impact as generative artificial intelligence, ushered in by OpenAI in November 2022 with its ChatGPT launch.

NVIDIA saw blowout second-quarter results, surging margins, and incredible demand, which prompted one analyst from Constellation Insights to conclude that "it's clear the company has little competition and a lot of pricing power."

VALL-E, one of Microsoft's latest forays into artificial intelligence, is a transformer-based text-to-speech model that can re-create any voice from just a three-second sample clip.

ID R&D, a New York-based provider of liveness detection and voice biometrics, has quickly become a leader in addressing AI-powered fraud by combining passive facial liveness and voice anti-spoofing technologies.

D-ID, an Israeli company founded in 2017, is providing superpowers to individual creators and businesses alike, uniquely enabling them to transform any picture into an interactive video in seconds.

How companies can help users feel safe by better securing voice assistant data.

Voiceitt, an Israeli provider of speech recognition for nonstandard speech, seeks to disrupt the voice accessibility market.

The company is building toward a vision of a voice commerce ecosystem that enables consumers to access goods and services through natural conversation.

Boston-based Sonde Health has positioned itself as a leader in voice-based health monitoring, and the U.S. military has taken notice.

Thanks to this Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of real-time speech understanding technology, agents have a choice in how they're heard and can proudly hold on to their unique voice characteristics.

PolyAI continues to redefine what's possible with voice-first, artificial intelligence-powered automation in contact centers.

in yet another groundbreaking move, the San Francisco-based company gave ChatGPT a voice last September.

Cars are becoming better listeners, and one company driving that change is Israeli startup Kardome, whose system can reportedly capture and identify up to six speakers in three seat rows.

The company's first product, AI Dubbing, enables users to automatically translate any speech into up to 20 other languages while maintaining the original speakers' voice qualities.

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.

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

The software giant is hard at work bringing voice features to more PCs.

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.

HitPaw's latest Edimakor release offers additional customization and personalization.

[Paris Peace Forum] The election of Donald Trump changed the world - for a second time. Just days after U.S. vote, and as COP29 opens in Baku in a world more divided than ever, world leaders came together at the 7th edition of the Paris Peace Forum at the historic Palais de Chaillot and other locations across Paris. Under the theme Wanted: A Functioning Global Order the Forum once again convened leaders, decision-makers, and civil society representatives from around the world to discuss and find solutions to some

[Premium Times] This isn't the first time Nigeria has faced difficulties in Libya. In 2018, the team was held for four hours due to documentation issues.

[New Times] Investors are increasingly eyeing tourism and hospitality projects along Rwanda's twin lakes of Ruhondo and Burera, aiming to transform the area into a vibrant tourism hub, The New Times has learned.

[Capital FM] London, UK -- The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre - Eastern Africa (GTRCMC-EA), based at Kenyatta University, has been honoured with the prestigious Tourism Resilience Award during the Global Resilience Council Hall of Fame Awards at Plaisterers' Hall in London.

[Octopus Energy] Octopus Energy's generation arm, in partnership with Idris Elba, has kicked off its first renewables project in Africa, a pioneering wind farm on Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone.

Amid growing tensions, an employee group is urging DOJ leadership to ramp up its response to online threats many career federal workers continue to face.

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A local business is growing quickly on the premise that those who rosè all day will really love an unbreakable bottle.

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Real-time data capture, printing, mobility and voice-directed solutions specialist Dakota Integrated Solutions has been ranked 79th in the latest Tussell Tech200 list of the top 200 fastest-growing public sector technology companies.

Wincanton has deployed VersaTile, a new modular automation solution, at its Northampton shared user facility to further enhance its high-volume e-Fulfilment offering for customers.

Republicans also reclaimed control of the Senate, picking up seats in West Virginia and Ohio.

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o9 Solutions, the enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, and analyst firm Supply Chain Insights, has announced that LKQ Europe captured significant supply chain planning insights as a result of the company’s participation in a pilot programme designed to test outside-in planning concepts through Project Zebra.

Fen Health Ltd and Zulize Ltd have announced a transaction that will see both companies merge to form and launch, Fen Group Ltd.

Recently established 3PL provider, Yantra Fulfilment, is celebrating two new business wins.

The DoseID Consortium, the membership-driven industry alliance advancing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in pharmaceuticals, has rebranded to UnitVisID Alliance.

The global impact of the COVID pandemic has been dramatically felt by the global aerospace sector, which almost overnight suffered a catastrophic collapse in demand, which resulted in an 80 percent decline in air traffic and over 60 percent of the global airline fleet grounded. The impact on the airlines and its key component supply chain has been immediate and is expected to remain in place for some time.

Rhenus Warehousing Solutions UK was crowned the winner in the Infrastructure category at the UKWA Annual Lunch & Awards in London.

A Bureau of Land Management preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink the size by nearly half.

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The U.S. Interior Department's plan to withdraw hundreds of square miles in New Mexico from oil and gas production for the next 20 years is expected to result in only a few dozen wells not being drilled on federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Land managers on Thursday released an environmental assessment of the plan first outlined by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in 2021 in response to the concerns of Native American tribes in New Mexico and Arizona. Environmentalists say the agency needs to take a broader look at the cumulative effects of development if they want to preserve cultural sites and limit pollution from ongoing development beyond the proposed withdrawal zone.

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A chief architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought is likely to be appointed to a high-ranking post in a second Trump administration.

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Nontraditional hiring, pay authorities were among the factors that let DoD significantly reduce its cyber workforce shortage over the past year.

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In this episode of Market Chat we discuss Task Orders with 3 field experts. What are they? How do you market to them? How do you win them? Why are they so important?

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Federal News Network dug into federal employee retirement data and found the number of retirees in CSRS and FERS to be almost equal.

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US recovers most of Colonial Pipeline Bitcoin ransom following cyberattack

Meat company JBS confirms it paid a $11 million ransom following its recent cyberattack

Market winners and losers as Trump secures historic victory