Speechmatics
Speechmatics is a technology company based in Cambridge, England, which develops automatic speech recognition software 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.
In 2014 Cantab Research Ltd led the development of a billion-word text corpus for measuring progress in statistical language modelling and placed the corpus into the public domain to help accelerate the development of speech recognition technology.
In 2017 the company announced they had developed a new computational method for creating new language models at speed. Around the same time Speechmatics announced a partnership with Qatar Computing Research Institute to develop advanced Arabic speech to text services.
