VoiceBase, the leading provider of AI-powered speech analytics announced a partnership with the University of Sheffield, to develop the next generation of speech and language technology. Together, VoiceBase and world-renowned Professor of Speech and Audio Technology, Thomas Hain, will run a Centre for Speech & Language Technology.

This Centre will be at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence applications within automated speech recognition (ASR) and other language technologies.

“Professor Thomas Hain is notably one of the leading experts in the highly competitive field of speech technology,” stated Walter Bachtiger CEO VoiceBase. “VoiceBase is honored to have found tremendous synergy around our speech technology vision, in order to jointly advance the science of automated speech recognition.”

We believe that the Speech & Audio Technology research team at the University of Sheffield around Professor Thomas Hain, is of the top university research teams within Speech Recognition related technologies in the world. With partners such as Twilio, Amazon Connect, Voxbone and AVST, VoiceBase is committed to bringing the next advancements of speech recognition and analytics to the enterprise.

This Centre of research combines cutting edge university research with the leading platform of AI-powered speech analytics. VoiceBase and its customers will have access to the best research and state of the art technology, while VoiceBase provides opportunities to world class researchers to have their technologies be used on a massive scale within the world’s largest enterprises.

“By bringing together exceptional University resources and VoiceBase’s ‘big voice’ vision for enterprise business intelligence, the centre’s researchers will be in touch with real world problems and have the satisfaction to see their hard work realized in the largest enterprises around the world,” commented Professor Thomas Hain.