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UK language app users invest time & money but lack confidence

Research by Wall Street English reveals that UK language app users invest significant time and money yet often lack confidence in their speaking abilities.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Nov 2024

Global Stories

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Large Language Models

SambaNova debuts Hume AI voice models for emotional speech AI

SambaNova launches Hume AI voice models on SambaCloud, offering enterprises real-time, multilingual, emotionally responsive speech AI in 11 languages by June 2024.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 2nd Oct 2025

EduTech

AI transforms multilingual event planning landscape

A recent study by Interprefy reveals that 94% of multilingual event planners are keen to embrace AI-powered speech translation to enhance future events.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 3rd Feb 2025

Marketing Technologies

Salesforce unveils Agentforce; experts highlight AI limitations

Salesforce's Agentforce, unveiled at Dreamforce, spotlights AI in business. Yet, experts argue multimodal AI, combining visual, text, and speech, is the future.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Thu, 26th Sep 2024

Firewalls

Google Cloud releases air-gapped appliance for harsh environments

Google Cloud launches its air-gapped appliance, offering AI capabilities to remote environments like disaster zones and mobile operations, enhancing local data processing.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 25th Jul 2024

EduTech

Medallia named leader in Forrester Wave: text mining platforms

Medallia emerges as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Text Mining and Analytics Platforms, Q2 2024 report, excelling in Vision, Innovation, and Adoption.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Jun 2024

Robotics

NVIDIA unveils enterprise-grade AI microservices for custom applications

NVIDIA unveils an extensive array of enterprise-grade generative AI microservices, allowing businesses to develop and distribute custom applications while retaining full intellectual property ownership.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Mar 2024

Marketing Technologies

Adobe unveils Project Sound Lift, an innovative AI-powered audio tool

Adobe unveils Project Sound Lift, an AI-powered tool transforming audio quality in videos by isolating and enhancing soundtracks.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Mon, 20th Nov 2023

Software-as-a-Service

SaaS sector in NZ thriving as a result of trans -Tasman partnerships

New Zealand's SaaS sector set to generate NZD$20bn for economy, with Microsoft highlighting importance of trans-Tasman partnership.

By Mitchell Hageman • 3 min read • Tue, 2nd Aug 2022

New Zealand Dollar

NZ dollar gains vs. Australian dollar on iron ore weakness; Yellen awaited

The New Zealand dollar gained against its Australian counterpart on sliding prices for iron ore exported to China, that nation's biggest market, while.

By Pattrick Smellie • 2 min read • Fri, 27th Mar 2015

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Internet of Things

ParallelChain Lab to unveil AI at Interspeech 2024 in Greece

ParallelChain Lab will showcase its cutting-edge voice anti-spoofing AI at the Interspeech 2024 Conference, revolutionary for voice-based security and identity verification.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Aug 2024