Speechmatics

Speechmatics Ltd
Company typePrivately held company
IndustrySpeech recognition
Founded2006
FounderTony Robinson
HeadquartersCambridge, UK
Number of locations
Cambridge, UK, London, UK, Chennai, India, Brno, Czech Republic
Area served
Global
Key people
Katy Wigdahl (CEO)
ProductsAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Cloud-based ASR, Speech-to-text, Autonomous Speech Recognition
Revenue11,342,008 Euro (2021) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
100-250
Websitewww.speechmatics.com

Speechmatics is a technology company based in Cambridge, England, which develops automatic speech recognition software (ASR) based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modelling. Speechmatics was originally named Cantab Research Ltd when founded in 2006 by speech recognition specialist Dr. Tony Robinson.[1][2]

Speechmatics offers its speech recognition for solution and service providers to integrate into their stack regardless of their industry or use case.[3] Businesses use Speechmatics to understand and transcribe human-level speech into text regardless of any gender or demographic barrier. The technology can be deployed on-premises and in public and private cloud.[4][5]

  1. ^ Clawson, Trevor. "Finding A Voice - Can A UK Startup Compete With IT's Heavy Hitters In The Speech Recognition Market". Forbes. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. ^ Research, QY (April 2018). "Global Speech and Voice Recognition Market Research Report 2018". QY Research Reoprts: 118. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  3. ^ Cooper, Lanna. "Shaping the future of speech recognition". Startups Magazine. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Speechmatics pushes forward recognition of accented English". TechCrunch. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  5. ^ Turner, Brian (29 September 2021). "Best speech-to-text software in 2022: Free, paid and online voice recognition apps and services". TechRadar India. Retrieved 22 March 2022.