By Teo Borschberg and Nicolas Perony, founders of OTO.ai As humans, we’re moving deeper into a voice-first context, a shift only accelerated by COVID-19. OTO.ai predicts that in 2021, voice will go mainstream to supersede clumsy computer interfaces and eclipse voice-to-text-solutions. …

By Nicolas Perony, Co-founder and CTO of OTO Systems In a world where AI-powered deepfakes disrupt democracy, data and its analysis is increasingly important to journalists, activists, watchdogs and citizens who police election processes. Presidential debates should showcase constitutional democracies by giving the electorate policy insights. But then came the…

By Nicolas Perony, Co-founder and CTO of OTO Systems As Trump and Biden get set to face off in the final debate of a bitter US election contest, I wanted to look beyond mere words to investigate what voice data would reveal about the voices of the two incumbents. We…

By Nicolas Perony, Co-founder and CTO of OTO Systems The e-commerce juggernaut premiered its voice-enabled fitness tracker in August 2020, but the potential of Amazon’s Halo could be hamstrung by the technology that underpins it. In 2017, some three years before Dr Maulik Majmudar announced early access to Amazon Halo…

When we were first introduced to voice assistants like Siri back in 2011, nobody predicted that it would become such a driver for tech innovation. Almost a decade later, it is now estimated that one in every four Americans own a smart speaker (Amazon Echo, Google Home), while eMarketer predicts…

As more and more consumers are using Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA), speech recognition has become essential in our everyday lives. …

When it comes to cutting-edge voice technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) gives business and research enterprises the tools to add more functionality to their applications. OTO has developed DeepTone™, a unique technology based on deep neural networks trained on a large voice corpus mixing public and proprietary data from thousands of…

The most important part of medical care is the ‘human’ touch. With the onset of advanced technologies in medicine, the thought of AI creates anxiety in patients and even in those working in the field. …

In a sea of similar products and services, Customer Experience (CX) can act as a powerful differentiator. According to Gartner’s Customer Experience in Marketing Survey¹, 67% of companies feel they compete mostly or completely on the basis of CX, and 81% expect to do so within two years. Getting your…