Voice order at the self-service kiosk? Coming right up
Elliot Maras — Originally published by Kiosk Marketplace
Ben Kaplan of PLNT Burger and Ken Sutton of Yobe Inc. are working on a voice solution that…
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PLNT Burger Readies Self-serve Voice Order Solution
Elliot Maras — Originally published by Kiosk Marketplace
Following the pandemic, Ben Kaplan (PLNT Burger CEO) has looked to technology to restore personalization to unattended transactions,…
Yobe and SoundHound AI have partnered to offer advanced voice technology for restaurants.
Staff Writer — Originally published by MartechVibe
The partnership involves the SoundHound for Restaurants ordering platform, which allows restaurants to integrate voice across phone, drive-thru,…
Results of the Phase I SBIR/NSF Project.
The general problem category addressed by our Phase I SBIR project concerned the so-called cocktail party problem,…
How Voice Can Become The Enterprise Workflow Tool Of The Future
Ken Sutton — Originally published by Forbes
The sheer number of workflow tools across the enterprise today has become burdensome. As the pandemic has inspired…
Hey Alexa, what’s next? Breaking through voice technology’s ceiling
S. Hamid Nawab — Originally published by Venture Beat
THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT from Amazon that they would be reducing staff and
budget for the Alexa department has…
A Day In The Not So Distant Future
A Day in The Not-So-Distant-Future of Voice
In the post-COVID-19 era, Voice-focused technologies will offer a unique value…
Why CMOs Should Look To Voice AI As The Future Of Advertising
One of the first genius marketing moves came in the 1930s when radio soap operas were sponsored by…
Senior Director of Product Daren Gill Joins Yobe’s Board of Directors
Yobe announced today that Daren Gill, a Senior Director of Product at Spotify is joining its Board of…
Companies Are Investing in Voice, But They’re Ignoring the Real Problem
In 2019, an analysis of the rise of voice technology noted that the sector’s success hinged on its…
To commercialize, voice tech must first solve its ‘cocktail party problem’
Ken Sutton — Originally published by TechCrunch
On average, men and women speak roughly 15,000 words per day. We call our friends and family, log…
Startup Shorts – Yobe is Tracking the DNA of Sound with MATLAB
Madeline Carleton — Originally published by MathWorks
The startup company, Yobe, has created a patented approach for such applications. Using a combination of signal processing,…
How Yobe Addresses the “Cocktail Party Problem”
Matt Bauer — Originally published by Azafran INSIGHTS Podcasts
Host Matt Bauer leads an all-star cast including the co-founders of Azafran Portfolio One Company Yobe, CEO Ken…
Avoid Being Fooled by Parlor Tricks: The Necessity of Real-World Environment Testing for ASR
S. Hamid Nawab — Originally published by Speech Technology Magazine
Voice assistants developed by Amazon, Google, Xiaomi, Alibaba, and others are poised to take over the world. A …
Automakers should prepare for the next frontier—voice-tracking AI
Ken Sutton — Originally published by Automotive World
Major automakers are putting their money on voice-enabled technology to keep pace with consumer expectations and drive competitive…
AI in Action E22: Hamid Nawab, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Yobe Inc.
Hamid Nawab — Originally published by AI In Action
Welcome to episode 22 of AI in Action, the podcast that breaks down the hype and explores the…
Examining customer experience challenges in retail voice technology
Ken Sutton — Originally published by Retail Customer Experience
Voice tech is uniquely positioned to take over the retail market. However, customer experience challenges remain that directly…
Accelerating innovation: transforming voice-based products for the future
Chris Shore — Originally published by Arm
Voice is everywhere and being integrated into devices all around us, from voice-activated alarm clocks to voice-controlled vacuum…
Voice Interface: The Touchscreen of the Next Century
Originally published by MathWorks
How AI and Signal Processing Came Together to Track the DNA of Sound
With its compelling tagline, “Signal…
Yobe Uses AI and Microphones to Isolate Voices in a Crowd
Kyle Wiggers — Originally published by Venture Beat
Smart assistants and voice-enabled speakers are more popular now than ever before. About 47.3 million U.S. adults have…
Yobe Raises $1.8M in Seed Funding to Deploy Intelligent Voice Biometrics Technology
Lucia Maffei — Originally published by BostonInno
Yobe, a Boston-based developer of AI-powered speech recognition and voice authentication software, announced on Tuesday that it has…
Yobe launches with $1.8M Seed Investment to Pinpoint a Voice in Noise
Ron Miller — Originally published by TechCrunch
There are times where voice-driven systems don’t work all that well because of background noise or other voices.…