The Voice Box

Rene Arvin is the co-founder of VoiceScript, a new company that is transforming - and saving - the court transcription industry. Rene talks with Darin and Jeff about the origins of VoiceScript, and what we might expect to see in courtrooms and legal deposition proceedings of the near future.

As a platform enabler, Ken Sutton of Yobe see a future where voice is moving from a "nice to have" user interface to a "need to have" revenue generator. Yobe's AI-powered platform is purpose-built for live crowds and noisy environments to identify and decode human voices. Modeled on human hearing, Yobe’s signal processing techniques substantially increase SNRs (signal-to-noise ratio) in noisy environments allowing the ability to decipher emotion, intent, mood, and other biological markers for an added layer of meaning.

In this episode, Ken talks with Darin & Jeff about the challenges of understanding speech in real-world environments.

Igor Jablokov is a force of nature. He previously founded and ran Yap, where our host Jeff Adams ran the research group. Now he is the founder and CEO of Pryon, an artificial intelligence (AI) company delivering an enterprise knowledge management platform. Pryon’s natural language processing (NLP) engine ingests and transforms data into experiences that solve critical business challenges.

In this episode, he talks with Darin and Jeff about Pryon's enterprise AI technology, and about tech in general.

Roberto Sicconi discusses the use of voice (and other) tech that Dreyev is bringing to market to help drivers stay safe. Dreyev offers an in-vehicle “digital copilot” device that evaluates drivers for risky behavior. Through Computer Vision and Machine Learning, the Dreyev system analyzes driver conditions such as head pose and eyelid closure to detect distracted or drowsy driving and issues real-time voice alerts in the case of dangerous conditions.

Babbly is building an AI powered platform that will enable parents to monitor their child's development in early years of life. Babbly can analyze a child's speech and language skills and empower parents to track their baby's development like they would with sleep and body temperature.

Maryam Nabavi is a mother, and a strategic Leader with 10+ yrs of experience in product innovation & consumer electronics.

Carla Margalef Bentabol has deep experience in software development, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.

On this episode of The Voice Box, Maryam and Carla describe their vision to Darin and Jeff.

Rev.com is a leading provider of transcription services, with a "gig economy" approach to transcription.

Miguel Jetté has been leading Rev's speech technology team for 5 years and has fascinating insights into the melding of human and computer resources to increase accuracy and productivity of speech transcription.

On this episode, we talk with Xavier Anguerra about the English language accent coach, ELSA.

Xavier has a reputation in the speech industry to be reckoned with. He has over 20 years of experience in speech and signal processing technologies, has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers, and holds multiple patents in the areas of multimedia, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence.

Tune in to hear the story of how a missing persons report led to the development of local voice control for hospitals and homes.

SmartOR is giving voice to a completely end to end smart home. From lighting to streaming services, they are giving users control without sacrificing privacy.

In the hospital OR space, they are using voice to assist with arthroscopic surgery. In the OR of the future. The surgeon will be able to control everything by voice.

Will the voice controls of the future always require a web connection, and the transfer of your speech and data to the cloud?

Ben Walker founded Transcription Outsourcing in 2010 as a medical transcription company, and they have now diversified into legal, law enforcement, academic, insurance, and many other industries. Unlike other guests on this podcast, they do things the old-fashioned way -- with human transcribers.

In this episode, we explore some of the cases where the human touch is necessary, and when it might make sense to apply a hybrid human+computer approach to transcription, and we discuss some of the challenges computers will need to overcome to reach parity.

This episode, we are fortunate to have Beth Porter as our guest. Beth leads the team at Riff Analytics, where they model the conversations of small groups working collaboratively in order to give participants real-time feedback and insights about interactions over time.

Have you ever been in a Zoom meeting (or any meeting) that went off the rails, or that was dominated by one person? Riff is helping to fix that problem through their tools that use AI to measure and augment human interactions, helping people and organizations communicate, collaborate, and innovate better.