Liopa has risen to the top of a field of eight finalists in the “Most Promising Pilot” award at the Leading Healthcare Awards 2020. All of the finalists can be seen profiled here. We were recognised for our SRAVI pilot, where Lancashire Teaching Hospitals have piloted a communications aid for tracheostomy patients, aimed at improving …
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Voice is taking over the world – and for good reason. Amazon revealed that 100 million Alexa-enabled devices were purchased by this time last year. This week, the company reported that Alexa’s presence has doubled since then. Google Assistant has 500 million monthly users, according to stats published by Google. Why is voice …
You may have seen this video, a “DeepFake,” publicised by the BBC. It calls under threat the very facets of democracy. In the fake video, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is seen to endorse Conservative leader Boris Johnson, and vice versa – each politician telling viewers to vote for the other in the 12 December Parliamentary …
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Consumers are increasingly using their voice to command devices and applications. The uptake in voice-based technology shows no signs of abating. VoiceBot.ai looked at the usage of voice-driven personal assistants in the US, and reported the following: One quarter of all US households have a smart speaker, such as Amazon Echo or Alexa – a …
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Background In-car speech recognition technology enables drivers to interact with a multitude of useful applications using their voice. Drivers can invoke navigation applications, voice calls, messaging applications, play music, query fuel consumption & set driving modes by simply speaking commands. Improved road safety has been the primary motivation for the deployment of speech recognition systems in modern cars. Today’s driver wants to be “connected” at all times but manual interaction with …
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(This guest article was originally posted in Biometric Technology Today). Today’s best user authentication systems are multi-factor. Users are verified by using – something they know (e.g. a pin or password) something they have (e.g. a key fob) something they are (biometric authentication). The “something they are” factor provides a very accurate and reliable user authentication technique by identifying the individual from a unique physiological or …
It doesn’t matter if you’re from Bangor in Northern Ireland or Wales, or Perth in Scotland or Australia: when it comes to lip-reading technology, accents don’t matter – only the words you say.The end-goal for an innovative start-up based in Belfast is to have a real-time lip reader than can recognise very large vocabularies across …
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What does the future of Voice User Interfaces look like? Liopa’s Chief Technology Officer Dr Fabian Campbell-West gives a brief introduction. Dr Campbell-West outlines how such systems are increasingly in use in a wide variety of ways. Liopa specialists have used Voice User Interface technology and cutting-edge research to create enhanced levels of accuracy and …
