Tom Hanks in the movie “Forrest Gump” said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” 

The United Association of Storm Restoration Contractors formed to ensure quality repair work for communities.

Just like plugging a leaky roof, finding ways to plug holes in rebate management by using the right tools and methods can lead to satisfied customers on the distributor and manufacturer side.

S-5!, the Colorado-based metal roof attachment solutions manufacturer, will host accredited educational sessions at METALCON in Atlanta, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, covering metal roofing basics, solar racking systems, and sales strategies.

The momentum behind metal roofing continues to impact roofing contractors beyond traditional areas of demand.

Manufacturers, suppliers and other industry stakeholders are updating their own business practices while learning to navigate through and beyond these unparalleled times.

Take a look at the latest entries in the marketplace that will play an important role in the roofing industry going forward with our Editor’s Choice.

Our 2022 Editor’s Choice examines the latest products and innovations that can help roofing contractors succeed amidst workforce and material shortages.

Many factors go into determining a roof's wind resistance, from speed and direction to the design and materials used. Westlake Royal Roofing Products takes a closer look at the way concrete roof tiles are a superior choice for wind resistance.

SPRI announced plans to revise ANSI/SPRI WD-1, “Wind Design Standard Practice for Roofing Assemblies,” to enhance wind uplift resistance and prepare it for adoption into the International Building Code.

With more women entering the construction industry, this year's NWiR Day featured a number of breakout sessions emphasizing diversity and inclusion.

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.

AI, AI, and more AI: The technology is disrupting everything, and it's found everywhere in our speech industry achievements for 2023.

Interface interoperability is becoming closer to reality, but more work is needed.

Improved accuracy, wider language choices, and real-time options are among the benefits.

Deepfakes threats advance, and technology is challenged to keep up.

Voice and video creation tools continue to benefit from AI augmentation.

Speech systems will continue to get more conversational with AI advances.

The insights come faster and are more comprehensive

How generative (and other types of) artificial intelligence is impacting five important sectors.

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.

Artificial intelligence is now integral to speech technology, a fact reflected by our winning vendors.

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.

CRM magazine has named its five picks in 11 categories, pointing the way forward with the best products and capabilities hitting the market in customer service, marketing, and sales. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)

Voicebrain's real-time voice analytics will help the airline industry capture and generate actionable insights from two-way radio communications.

New research has found that drivers are ready for supercharged assistants with AI-powered natural language conversational capabilities.

Nos ponemos a los mandos del, por ahora, último exponente de la saga de modelos de Ferrari con motor V12. Tiene 830 CV y costará, sin opciones, unos 440.000 euros. Leer

Se trata de la Pulsar NS125, que se puede conducir desde los 16 años. Y la Dominar 400, una rutera. Cuestan 2.750 y 4.999 euros, respectivamente. Leer

Es perfectamente compatible la cultura libre que representan los millones de libros liberados en Internet, con el modelo de pago de nuevos lanzamientos que lidera Amazon.  Antes o después, todo libro será liberado: aprender a sobrevivir en ese nuevo ecosistema es un desafío apasionante.

Tal como establece el artículo 3.1 de nuestro Código Civil, las leyes han de interpretarse de conformidad con la realidad social del tiempo en el que han de ser aplicadas.  Cuando una conducta deja de tener desvalor social, como pasó con el adulterio, o con la insumisión al servicio militar obligatorio, el legislador está obligado a escuchar la voz de la calle. En palabras históricas de Adolfo Suárez, “es necesario elevar políticamente a la altura de normal,lo que en la calle es normal” .