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Top 5 Speech Recognition AI Platforms

Top 5 Speech Recognition AI Platforms

Speech recognition technology is a form of AI. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) enables machines to register a set of words they hear used in spoken language, match them to a text transcription, and then search multiple transcribed possible responses for the best...

Crowdsourcing to Accelerate this New Decade

Crowdsourcing to Accelerate this New Decade

2020’s upheaval of lifestyles and work practices has seen many business winners and losers. Social distancing, and in some countries curfews, have floored many leisure and hospitality companies. Travel clampdowns have grounded aircraft and caused hotel closures. On...

Unlocking Human Potential Through the Power of the Crowd

Unlocking Human Potential Through the Power of the Crowd

We are at the beginning of a period of exponential growth through harnessing human intellect with intelligent technology. The pace of change is often said to get faster and faster, the increase in the world’s collective knowledge is certainly growing faster and...

How To Prepare for High Level Reward Crowdfunding Success

How To Prepare for High Level Reward Crowdfunding Success

In five years, Narek Vardanyan, CEO and co-founder of The Crowdfunding Formula, built the world’s largest agency that specialises in supporting entrepreneurs who want to launch new and innovative products, and generate high level pre-orders through crowdfunding. The...

“Power of the Crowd” Powered Sharing Economy IPO Successes

“Power of the Crowd” Powered Sharing Economy IPO Successes

This month, Airbnb and restaurant meal delivery service Door Dash floated on the US public stock market with resounding success, making immediate and spectacular gains. Then they fall back, and some commentators became alarmist, as if something was going wrong. Here...

How to Avoid Reward Crowdfunding Pitfalls

How to Avoid Reward Crowdfunding Pitfalls

Reward crowdfunding has come a long way from its early days on Indiegogo and Kickstarter as a way of raising money to support creative ideas and projects. There have been projects that generated millions of dollars’ worth of pre-orders for exciting new products, and...

Automatic Speech Recognition Systems and Crowdsourcing

Automatic Speech Recognition Systems and Crowdsourcing

A wide range of industry sectors are using speech technology, helping people to save time, improve effectiveness and efficiency, and ultimately even save lives. Key sectors where advances are being made include consumer durables, automotive, healthcare, banking and...

Freedom of Speech and Crowdfunding

Freedom of Speech and Crowdfunding

A donations crowdfunding project launched by a former Google employee has exceeded its $130,000 target, with contributions from over 3,000 backers. A senior software engineer claims first-hand knowledge that Google has been exercising censorship, suppressing legal...

The Impact and Roles of Crowdsourcing in the Information Age

The Impact and Roles of Crowdsourcing in the Information Age

The coming together of miniaturization that began with microfilm, the advent of digital technology, and the proliferation of personal computers and then other portable devices, has enabled governments, commercial businesses, non-profit organizations, and billions of...

How to Take Advantage of Crowdsourced AI Datasets from DefinedCrowd

How to Take Advantage of Crowdsourced AI Datasets from DefinedCrowd

Speech controlled apps and software, and voice recognition are swiftly moving from being a novelty to an everyday user expectation. Demand for voice-activated systems and devices is forecast to grow from what was a $9 billion market in 2017 to almost $32 billion by...

How Crowdsourcing Measures Can Tackle Mass Unemployment

How Crowdsourcing Measures Can Tackle Mass Unemployment

In the seven years since I launched Crowdsourcing Week the Covid-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the biggest, and most awful global phenomenon. The pandemic lockdowns announced by most national governments meant the worldwide pool of available skilled labor grew virtually...

Top 10 Automated Accounts Payable Software for Tech Startups

Top 10 Automated Accounts Payable Software for Tech Startups

It’s no exaggeration to say that during the pandemic there has been an explosion in the numbers of people and businesses paying money to, or expecting payment from, marketplace platforms. As a result, it’s reckoned that the amount of switching to digital technology...

Reasons Why Corporate Businesses Turn to Rewards Crowdfunding

Reasons Why Corporate Businesses Turn to Rewards Crowdfunding

There are numerous reasons major corporations use reward crowdfunding. Key factors include that it is highly accurate field research conducted in real time. The same motivations that make a startup entrepreneur want to validate their idea for a new product or service...

Crowdsourcing Leverages the Power of Collective Consciousness

Crowdsourcing Leverages the Power of Collective Consciousness

The Virtual Crowd Summit attendees on September 17 heard insights covering Collective Consciousness from a true collection of global experts.  This article recaps the key issues the speakers covered regarding the benefits, demands and procedures of pulling together...