speech recognition

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By  Jessica Hagen 02:16 pm June 13, 2024
Canary Speech, maker of AI-enabled speech analysis software, announced it scored $13 million in Series A funding.  Cortes Capital (Love's Private Equity) led the round, with participation from SMK (Japan), Hackensack Meridian Health and Sorenson Communications. WHAT IT DOES Canary offers vocal biomarker technology that captures and analyzes data to determine whether irregularities exist within an...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:26 pm May 25, 2023
Canary Speech, maker of speech analysis software, is partnering with Microsoft to apply the tech giant's AI technology to expand its machine learning speech models for healthcare. Canary offers vocal biomarker technology that captures and analyzes data to determine whether irregularities exist within an individual's speech. The company touts its technology as being able to detect mood, stress and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:17 pm December 12, 2022
Speech recognition-technology company Voiceitt announced it scored $4.7 million in funding. The startup will extend the round to meet a new goal of $10 million. The round was led by AMIT Technion with participation from Third Culture Capital (3CC) and Cisco Investments.   The Israeli company said that it had raised $20 million since its formation in 2012, including $5M of non-dilutive funding...
By  Laura Lovett 02:40 pm September 14, 2020
Silicon Valley tech giant NVIDIA, which is best known as a hardware company for graphic processing units, is one of the latest companies to look into the telemedicine space.  Researchers at the company are working on an automated speech recognition and natural language processing technology that can transcribe and organize information from a telemedicine visit both for the patient and clinicians...
By  Sara Mageit 05:03 am August 11, 2020
Israel-based speech recognition technology company, Voiceitt, has successfully raised $10 million in a Series A round which closed on 30 June 2020.   Investors included Viking Maccabee Ventures, Microsoft's M12, AMIT Technion, Cahn Capital Corp, Connecticut Innovations and AARP along with Quake Capital, SLJ Family Office, Dreamit Ventures and The Disability Opportunity Fund, bringing total funds...
By  Piers Ford 08:19 am April 16, 2020
Digital dictation, speech recognition and transcription for healthcare specialist T-Pro has launched eClinic Manager, a platform that enables clinicians to carry out patient appointments virtually and securely via smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. The tool is already in use at a number of hospitals in Ireland, and will be implemented by The Isle of Wight NHS Trust – already a T-Pro...
By  Neil Versel 01:18 pm April 17, 2013
A start-up from Orange Silicon Valley, the San Francisco development center of France Telecom-Orange, is preparing to launch a platform that combines wireless home monitoring, augmented reality, speech controls and motion capture to help patients manage chronic diseases and prevent hospital readmissions. The platform, called Sense.ly, uses gesture capture based on Microsoft's Kinect as well as a...
By  Chris Gullo 10:51 am November 30, 2011
Touchscreen devices will never catch up to the speed of typing on keyboards, but speech recognition technology can help such devices bridge that gap. That's the mindset of Nuance's Jonathon Dreyer, senior manager of mobile solutions marketing at the company's healthcare division: "I definitely think voice will be the primary form of input into these mobile devices," Dreyer told MobiHealthNews...