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Historic Achievement: Microsoft has made a major breakthrough in speech recognition, creating a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does.

In a paper published Monday, a team of researchers and engineers in Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research reported a speech recognition system that makes the same or fewer errors than professional transcriptionists.  The researchers reported a word  error rate (WER) of 5.9 percent, down from the 6.3 percent WER the team reported just last month.

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Q3 Investscape: Martech Sails Slow Yet Steady Through July-August-September with $2834.6 Million in Funding

October 20, 2016

The third quarter of 2016 saw 105 VC and private equity deals in martech companies for a total of $2834.6 million, a 1.25% dip compared to Q3 2015. These figures confirm the consistent growth in martech following a massive Q2, where over $5000 million in funding flowed into martech companies. MarTech Advisor currently tracks over 5,000+ companies spread over 44 categories in their martech list, and while different analysts may track the martech sector differently, most reports suggest a fairly substantial and steady growth in martech funding.

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New Brand Safety Initiatives from IPG Mediabrands, IAS. Apology from DoubleVerify

April 18, 2024

It’s tough to get brand safety right, but the industry keeps trying.  IPG Mediabrands announced a new set of tools to find and block inappropriate ad placements, while IAS expanded its suitability measurements to include standards from the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM).  Meanwhile, DoubleVerify admitted a mistake made brand safety on X/Twitter look worse than it really was in October 2023 and March 2024.

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