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Teri Drummond, Director of Engineering at Speechmatics, explores how biases in AI shape decisions that impact lives and careers. 

We asked Gen AI to create an image of the future. It produced 4 images. 2 are bleak cityscapes, 1 is a futuristic city and the other is some calming waves. 

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Breaking down key AI terms to help you navigate the rapidly evolving world of speech technology.

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The ultimate AI cheat sheet: Demystifying Conversational AI, Voice AI, Generative AI, and more

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Chief Technology Officer

Discover how Speechmatics' conversational AI delivers unparalleled accuracy, flexibility, and reliability for enterprise applications, now available as an API and iOS app.

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Accuracy Team Lead

The most advanced speech recognition model yet, with 18% improved accuracy across 50+ languages, including Arabic, Irish, and Maltese.

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Ursa 2: Elevating speech recognition across 50+ languages

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ASR technology is breaking down language barriers and empowering people like Osama through innovative, accessible solutions.

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Speechmatics showcases inclusive technology in film produced by BBC StoryWorks

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Discover how Speechmatics and NVIDIA Holoscan bring real time captions to live media with speed, accuracy and global reach.

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Transforming live broadcasts: Speechmatics' real-time ASR now on NVIDIA Holoscan for media

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Experience the next generation of Conversational AI with Flow - delivering low-latency, accurate speech interactions for inclusive and intuitive technology.

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Introducing Flow – passing the Turing test with speech

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The ultimate API for seamless voice interactions.

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Speechmatics Introduces Flow: an API for businesses to enable speech interactions with their products

Introducing Flow: Speechmatics' API for enabling speech interactions into products

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In this episode, Ricardo Herreros-Symons joins Kane Simms as they discuss how to unlock use cases with speech recognition.

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VUX World Podcast with Kane Simms: Unlocking Voice AI Use Cases with Speech Recognition

Understanding every voice is necessary to creating great AI assistants, but also a huge challenge.

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Why Google and Open AI’s latest announcements don’t solve all the challenges of AI Assistants

From ultra-fast conversational AI to studio-quality narration, find the voice that matches your use case and budget.

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Word error rate for legal transcription has no single acceptable threshold. But knowing how accuracy, audio quality, and review obligations connect to real legal risk is what separates a reliable transcript from a costly one.

What Word Error Rate Is Acceptable for Legal Transcription?

The court reporter shortage is reshaping litigation. Explore data, causes, and how legal teams are using digital reporting and AI transcription to adapt.

The court reporter shortage crisis: data, causes, and what legal teams are doing about it

Why predicting durations as well as tokens allows transducer models to skip frames and achieve up to 2.82X faster inference.

How Nvidia Dominates the HuggingFace Leaderboards in This Key Metric

AI-powered Arabic medical transcription for hospitals and clinics across the Middle East, improving accuracy, compliance, and speed.

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Turning real-time clinical speech into trusted, EHR-native automation.

One word changes everything: Speechmatics and Edvak EHR partner to make voice AI safe for clinical automation at scale

The metrics, milestones, and real-world outcomes that defined Voice AI’s breakout year.

Speechmatics in 2025: the numbers that shaped Voice AI's breakthrough year (+ what’s to come in 2026) 

Ship Voice AI agents that understand every voice in real-time, even in noisy, multi-speaker scenarios.

Vapi and Speechmatics: Build agents that understand every voice

Real-time voice AI isn’t just about speed — it’s about handling thousands of live conversations at once. Here’s why concurrency makes or breaks performance at scale.

The scaling challenge voice AI can’t ignore

Expanding a Nordic medical lineup with 3.91% KWER model that delivers sub-second latency across Swedish, Finnish, Danish, and Norwegian clinical workflows.

Speechmatics launches new Swedish medical model, cutting transcription errors by 40%

Built on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, the collaboration combines medical-grade speech models and agent workflows to deliver measurable ROI; cutting admin time and scaling healthcare capacity worldwide.

Speechmatics and Sully.ai partner to scale healthcare AI infrastructure globally

The voice AI gold rush has made natural-sounding speech a premium commodity, but most businesses don’t need to pay Oscar-winning prices to sound human.

Do you really need to pay a fortune for your text-to-speech?

New German, Danish and Norwegian Medical Models deliver up to 50% lower error rates, real-time accuracy under one second, and full deployment flexibility.

Speechmatics sets new standard for real-time medical transcription with German and Nordic roll-out

Joining French, Dutch, Finnish and English for global clinical transcription - accurate, hallucination-free, and accent-independent.

Speechmatics Medical Model launches in Spanish

Most TTS sounds great in demos but breaks in real conversations. We built ours for sub-150ms latency, natural voices, and global scale.

Why we built our low-latency Text-to-Speech

50% fewer critical errors. 96% medical term recall. A new benchmark for real-time clinical speech recognition.

The next generation of AI medical speech recognition is here

Next-gen medical transcription model cuts errors, boosts accuracy, and brings real-time reliability to clinical documentation.

Speechmatics sets record in medical Speech-to-Text with 93% accuracy

What “fast” actually means for voice agents — and why Pipecat’s TTFS + semantic accuracy is the clearest benchmark we’ve seen.

Speed you can trust: The STT metrics that matter for voice agents

Introducing 250ms final transcripts for Voice AI

You can’t hurry love, but you can hurry final transcripts

Is it time to rethink responsiveness as a conversational problem, not just a technical one?

Voice AI doesn't need to be faster. It needs to read the room. 

A practical guide to the leading AI agent orchestration platforms shaping real-time Voice AI in 2025, and what to consider before you build.

The 7 best AI agent orchestration platforms for building Voice AI agents in 2025

Benchmarks love milliseconds. 
Users love conversations that actually work.

Why “fastest” voice tech is a trap 

Why supporting thousands of parallel sessions is more than a backend problem.

How we built real-time concurrency for Voice AI at scale

Build real-time, speaker-aware Voice Agents with LiveKit + Speechmatics

Introducing real-time, speaker-aware Voice Agents with LiveKit + Speechmatics

From stage to strategy: core takeaways from a lead engineer on the future of live, usable Voice AI.

Inside the future of Voice AI: Speechmatics at the LiveKit developer showcase 

Open-source TTS is reshaping the landscape — unlocking custom voices, on-device deployment, and fine-tuned speech that fits your domain and your users.

Custom Voice AI in 2025: The Open Source Boom

As clinical workflows become automated and AI-driven, real-time speech is shifting from a transcription feature to the foundational intelligence layer inside modern EHR systems.

Why AI-native EHR platforms will treat speech as core infrastructure in 2026

Voice AI moved fast. Regulation caught up. Here’s how to stay compliant in 2026.

Your essential 2026 guide to voice ai compliance in today's digital landscape

What teams deploying Voice AI at scale see coming next as production pressure reshapes adoption.

7 Voice AI predictions from teams building at scale in 2026

Faceless YouTube channels are becoming a scalable, system-driven way for businesses to produce high-impact video without relying on on-camera talent.