Speechmatics launches on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to offer any-context speech recognition technology at scale

26th March 2021

James Chadwick at Microsoft said: “We’re thrilled to be working with Speechmatics and their any-context speech recognition engine is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Our customers now have easy access to Speechmatics’ use -case and market- agnostic, highly accurate speech-to-text in over 30 languages.” 

David Keene, Chief Marketing Officer at Speechmatics said: “The ability to integrate our engine via Microsoft Azure opens up a simple way for businesses to gain access to speech recognition technology. The Microsoft Azure platform provides its customers with solutions that are reliable, and we are thrilled to now be available on the Marketplace. Speechmatics is the most accurate, any-context speech recognition engine on the market, whilst also offering a broad range of languages and global language models which sets us apart from the competition.” 

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David Keene

David Keene is the Chief Marketing Officer at Speechmatics. He is an experienced global marketing leader, with over two decades of experience working across the US and Europe, having held several senior roles for global B2B software and service vendors such as Google, Salesforce, Oracle and SAP.

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