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Accelerate Alumni (Cohort 6)
Founded in
2006
Total funds raised
£56.7 million
Employees
101-250
Industry
Technology
Speechmatics provides cloud-based speech recognition services that convert speech-to-text. Thousands of hours of audio are created every minute (TV/radio/phone/meetings), information that is difficult to manage, as it is not easily searchable. This challenge is critical for companies that need to know what is happening in the world in real-time.
To address this challenge, Speechmatics has built the most efficient and accurate speech recognition system that converts speech-to-text thus making audio searchable and interpretable. This enables companies to find information contained within audio files quickly. The technology can also be used in archiving, transcription, dictation and many other applications.
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Speechmatics, a firm supported by the Accelerate Cambridge programme at Cambridge Judge Business School, wins a Queen's Award for Enterprise. Speechmatics, a machine learning and speech recognition company that was supported by the Accelerate Cambridge programme at the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre, was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise. The firm was a winner in the Innovation Category for its Automatic Linguist, a tool that uses machine learning to help build new languages quickly. So far, the tool has learned 75 languages including Korean, Hindi and Japanese. Speechmatics will receive its Queen's Award for Enterprise at an event at Buckingham Palace on 11 June 2019.…
Speechmatics, a venture that was on the Accelerate Cambridge programme at Cambridge Judge, is named a "One to watch" startup at the UK Business Angels Association awards. Speechmatics, a venture that converts spoken language into written text, was named as a "One to Watch" startup at the annual UK Angel Investment Awards of the UK Business Angels Association. Speechmatics was nominated in the Scale-Up Team of the Year category for "addressing the challenges of robotic speech, having successfully used investment to double the team and demonstrated a strong team ethos." The startup, which was previously on the Accelerate Cambridge programme at the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre, now supports 75 languages – from widely spoken languages such as Japanese, Russian and Hindi to rare languages like Ilocano, Urdu or Aymara. More than 300 submissions were received for this year's awards, which took place on 19 June 2018 at Liverpool Cathedral. The awards "recognise outstanding achievement, identifying some of the most innovative and disruptive businesses across the UK and the angel and early-stage investors that have backed them."…
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