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Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action

July 14, 2025
Have you ever thought about what it is like to use a voice assistant when your own voice does not match what the system expects? AI is not just reshaping how we hear the world; it is transforming who gets to be heard. In the age of conversational AI, accessibility has become a crucial benchmark for innovation. Voice assistants, transcription tools and audio-enabled interfaces are everywhere. One…
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Employee AI agent adoption: Maximizing gains while navigating challenges

July 11, 2025
In a Nutshell At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Matthew Kropp outlined a game plan for companies to derive value from agentic AI by focusing on workflow evolution and employee adoption. Companies should deploy, reshape, and invent with AI, amplifying employees’ productivity rather than replacing them. Overcoming the hurdle of adoption involves addressing capability ignorance, habit inertia…
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Announcing the winners of VentureBeat’s 7th Annual Women in AI awards

July 10, 2025
VentureBeat announced the winners of the seventh annual Women in AI Awards at VB Transform in San Francisco on June 25.  The awards recognize and honor the women leaders and changemakers in the field of AI. The nominees were submitted by the public and chosen by a VentureBeat committee based on their commitment to the industry, their work to increase inclusivity in the field and their positive…
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Cracking AI’s storage bottleneck and supercharging inference at the edge

July 9, 2025
As AI applications increasingly permeate enterprise operations, from enhancing patient care through advanced medical imaging to powering complex fraud detection models and even aiding wildlife conservation, a critical bottleneck often emerges: data storage. During VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Greg Matson, head of products and marketing, Solidigm and Roger Cummings, CEO of PEAK:AIO spoke with…
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