Speech recognition doesn’t catch your product name or domain-specific lingo?

Training and testing ASR systems can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive process due to its challenges:

A number of SaaS solutions with different APIs and low customization features
Rare or uncommon language or accents
Many open-source solutions are hard to deploy and test to find the best fit for your task
You have a small dataset to tune the model or even have none at all
Insufficient robustness for noises
Deploying the system for production usage (enough throughput with a minimum of hardware)

Data Monsters has the solution to overcome all of these challenges. We have domain-specific ASR models for different languages and unique datasets to train models for new tasks.

As an NVIDIA Elite partner, we have the best knowledge of NVIDIA Riva, including its pros and cons. Our team consists of ML Engineers, Data Assessors, and Software and DevOps Engineers.

We will help you with the following:

Choice of a best-fit solution (SaaS, managed solution, or new development)

Compare different solutions and ASR models

Understand a set of domain-specific terms to improve ASR accuracy

Collect the data to train ASR models

Train ASR models on yours or our hardware

Design and develop voice features for your product or service

Optimize ASR models for GPU/TPU/FPGA devices, for cloud or edge computing

Deploy and test ASR models

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What is AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION?

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a technology that enables computers to recognize and interpret spoken language. It is used in a variety of applications, such as voice-activated commands, voice search, and automated customer service. ASR systems use algorithms to analyze audio signals and convert them into text.

WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE DATA MONSTERS FOR YOUR NEXT ASR PROJECT

Experienced team

Our team includes experienced ML and software engineers engineers, as well as data scientists who have the knowledge and expertise to implement speech recognition for a wide range of applications.

Great tools

We use advanced tools and techniques, including NVIDIA Riva and open-source models for different hardware platforms.

Mature process

We have a mature process for ML-based product development, allowing us to deliver high-quality data in a timely manner.

Hardware

We have access to powerful hardware, including GPU servers, which enables us to train business-related models in a short amount of time.

Price-performance ratio

Our services offer an excellent price-performance ratio, making it a cost-effective solution for training and testing NLP software.

Popular Applications

ASR for call centers and customer service

Call centers are one of the company's most important touchpoints for customer service. Optimized ASR models can deliver minimal latency and high inference throughput compared to other speech recognition technologies on the market, making it the best choice for real-time communication.

To ensure accurate voice processing, every corporate client that outsources their operations to a call center requires a custom language and acoustic model that understands local and professional jargon for their group of end-customers. Here is an example of our project with Minerva (https://www.minervacq.com/) for speech recognition in equipment customer service.

Smart devices and self-service kiosks

Optimized ASR models can run at the edge with unstable or non-existent internet connection, making it stand out from cloud-based alternative ASR solutions in commercial settings. Due to COVID-19 business owners became more aware of customer’s safety and are now using the opportunity to create voice-controlled solutions. Retailers can use the technology as a touch-free interactive digital kiosk for informational requests or order-placing.

Education

NVIDIA Riva allows using state-of-the-art NLP models and adapts them with domain-specific voice and text data. This makes it the perfect tool for learning platforms and universities. Riva's text-processing modules are perfect for domain-specific knowledge management systems, including professional literature archives search, categorization, summarization, and information retrieval.

NVIDIA Riva Speech AI SDK allows for building accurate speech capabilities using voice recordings from hundreds of students with varying accents and proficiency levels. The process requires minutes, as opposed to hours, of a teacher’s time for an entire class. Additionally, Riva enables text entity highlighting, domain-specific text classification, subject-specific term recognition, and much more. In combination with NVIDIA Omniverse, Riva is a perfect tool for creating teaching AI avatars for personalized learning experiences for each student.

Using NVIDIA Riva automatic speech recognition, Plabook is able to assess various students’ skills, e.g. reading accuracy at the phoneme level, and provide personalized feedback for improvement, saving hours of teaching time.

Digital avatars

Digital avatars are a great way to express your business online. They can be used to provide customer service, answer questions, and provide product information. They can also be used to create a more personalized shopping experience, allowing customers to interact with a virtual representation of the company.

The NVIDIA Project Tokkio is the perfect synergy of computer vision and speech AI. Powered by Riva, it makes it possible to overcome the main difficulty for a voice-enabled kiosk - ambient and crosstalk noise. The 3D avatar is animated and visualized with NVIDIA Omniverse to deliver a visually stunning experience, all in real time.

Video conferencing

With hundreds of millions of daily online meetings, video conferencing has become instrumental in enabling employees to connect, collaborate and be productive.Using ASR, you can build a highly accurate, scalable, and reliable solution capable of serving over a billion minutes per month of transcription. It can be used to provide a written record of the conversation, which can be used for reference or to search for specific topics.Real-time speech recognition is a key to providing an automatic translation of the conversation, allowing participants to communicate in different languages.

DATA MONSTERS IS YOUR BEST GPU-BASED AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER

Data Monsters, a Palo Alto-based AI consulting company, is an NVIDIA Elite Partner who helps funded startups and enterprise R&D teams to design and implement ASR pipelines along with hardware solutions and products. With our 15 years in AI, hundreds of completed projects, and Elite NVIDIA expertise, we are ready to become your trusted development team and accelerate the releases of your AI product.

As an Elite Partner, Data Monsters has early and extended access to NVIDIA Riva technology. We have the right hardware and software component to experiment with the latest Riva modules several months before the official public release. Our direct connection with the Riva development team at NVIDIA helps to follow the best deployment practices, optimize configuration settings, calibrate the deployed pipelines, and adapt real-time streaming to different GPU chips.

IF YOU NEED ASR MODELS, CALL DATA MONSTERS

Your team may spend too much time on experimentation and adaptation. Data Monsters can help you to accelerate your success using the best tools, practices, and talents.

Here are some types of work you may need assistance with:

Choice of a best-fit solution (SaaS, managed solution, or new development)

Voice interface is becoming increasingly commonplace. However, there are various ways to implement it. The chosen method will be the foundation of all voice capabilities. Our team will assist you in evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the different solutions from both a technical and commercial standpoint.

Compare different solutions and ARS models

In order to select the best solution for your case, you must design an experiment to make a fair comparison. This can be a difficult task, especially when dealing with modern technologies that may not have an easy way to test them. To find the best solution, you must thoroughly investigate each one. Our consulting agency has extensive experience in AI benchmarking.

Understand a set of domain-specific terms to improve ASR accuracy

Our team can examine your voice and text data, as well as any other related data sources, to identify business-critical terms and create an ASR model that can detect them, as general purpose speech recognition is usually unsuccessful with domain-specific and enterprise-specific terms.

Collect the data to train ASR models

In order to train an ML system, including ASR, it is necessary to have as much data as possible. To teach the system a new language or terms, it must be trained on at least 200 hours of transcribed audio related to the task. Unfortunately, most of our clients only have 5 hours of audio. Data Monsters has a wide selection of audio recordings for various languages and topics, and can help you set up a data collection and labeling process in your product to ensure continuous improvement of speech recognition quality.

Train ASR models on yours or our hardware

To attain the highest accuracy, ML engineers must conduct a series of experiments. Data Monsters has its own NVIDIA DGX servers, allowing us to do all the training without our clients having to manage the hardware. This requires powerful hardware such as NVIDIA V100 servers with multiple GPUs.

Design and develop voice features for your product or service

Data Monsters are collaborating with startups and enterprise product teams to create and deliver ML-enabled products and services. We have a strong track record and are continuously investigating the market to discover viable uses for AI technologies.

Optimize ASR models for GPU/TPU/FPGA devices, for cloud or edge computing

When deploying and expanding AI applications, computing resources may become a limiting factor. Data Monsters can design system architecture and optimize ML models to reduce the cost of using AI in production and at scale without sacrificing accuracy.

Deploy and test ASR models

Our team can provide your tech team with all the necessary scripts and tools to improve and strengthen your ML models. Our ML and DevOps engineers have expertise in various serving solutions, and our Data Scientists can create an automated quality control process. We can also support your system by constructing a pipeline to automate the train/test/deploy process.

Don't go it alone - this work can take months of tinkering. Data Monsters has the relevant experience to help you design a system and accelerate your product releases.

Automatic Speech Recognition

Speech recognition doesn’t catch your product name or domain-specific lingo?

What is AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION?

WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE DATA MONSTERS FOR YOUR NEXT ASR PROJECT

Popular Applications

DATA MONSTERS IS YOUR BEST GPU-BASED AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER

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