“Appen’s platform is really easy to use. What makes it great is you can reach so many different channels because of its global outreach.” – Kenneth Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute, LSE The University Founded in 1895, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has long been a global leader in social sciences among universities. One of …
CallMiner Delivers Fast and Accurate Customer Insights with Large-Scale Annotation Solution
Appen is so fast. Using their platform, we could do overnight what used to take us a month. Appen is wonderfully efficient. – Rick Britt, Vice President of AI, CallMiner The Company Founded in 2002, CallMiner is the pioneer of the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered speech analytics space. In the years since, the company has continued to advance its AI software …
MediaInterface Expands to France With Pre-Labeled Datasets
We were expanding to a new market. Although we had a fully localized software, we were lacking resources, so our clients could not optimally use it. Appen helped us out with French lexicon data. – Ines Wendler, Product Manager, MediaInterface The Company For over 20 years, MediaInterface has delivered language technology solutions to primarily healthcare-related institutions in Germany and other …
Top 6 Trends for AI Initiatives Going into 2020
2020 Predictions in Artificial Intelligence to Consider When Operationalizing AI Developments With 2019 hardly fading in the rear-view mirror, it’s a good time to take a step back and see what’s in store for the next 12 months. For those managing and implementing AI and ML projects and deployments, it’s been a rapidly evolving ecosystem, and 2020 will be no …
Creating Chatbots and Virtual Assistants That Really Work
Chatbots and their more sophisticated counterparts, virtual assistants, have emerged as a key tool to streamline customer service operations for organizations in a wide range of industries, and to help reduce costs.
How to Solve Common Data Challenges in Conversational Design
When planning the development of a chatbot or virtual assistant, it’s important to begin the conversational design process with a clear data strategy in place. Conversational design requires more than just an understanding of the fundamentals of voice user interface design — you also need to understand how to solve some of the key challenges in data preparation. Working with the …
The Benefits of Artificial Intelligence are Enhancing the Business Landscape
The unstoppable march of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning is already touching our lives in so many ways. But its effects have only just begun to take hold.
Insights from Conversational Interaction 2018: NLP, Chatbots, and Comedians
Prithivi Pradeep, Appen VP of Business Development, and I recently attended Conversational Interaction in San Jose, CA. The conference provides companies and individuals a great opportunity to share and learn about the resources and knowledge that allow them to embrace AI. The importance of Artificial Intelligence technology has been emphasized by influential corporate executives and thoughtful analysts alike. Conversational interfaces are a major …
Global Tech Firm Reaches New Markets with Enhanced Child Speech System
When designing a voice recognition system, it’s important that the speech system understands everyone speaking to it. But what happens when a speech recognition system doesn’t account for children’s speech? Most speech recognition platforms are only designed with adults in mind. Child speech is very different than adult speech, and not all speech recognition devices are well-equipped to deal with …
Improving Natural Language Recognition for Leading Social Media Firm
A leading social media company needed large amounts of data to improve machine learning. Appen helped them secure the data needed to enhance the model. Read more.
Appen Gears Up for Big Presence at Interspeech 2017
Appen to present research on speech recognition, speaker comparisons, and Pashto speech data at this year’s Interspeech conference.
NLP Strategy | Insights from Conversational Interaction Conference 2017
While every enterprise has a Big Data strategy, few have an Natural Language Processing (NLP) data strategy. Do you?
The Hunt for Human Speech Data
How can we improve voice activated devices’ abilities to better understand and communicate with us? Human speech data, terabytes of it.
Insights from AI World 2016 | Top Takeaways
While the concept of AI is not new, the technology is experiencing a rebirth in the form of machine learning and cognitive computing.