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Are Children’s Voices Protected Under Data Regulations?
By Way With Words Team
Are children’s voices adequately protected under existing data regulations, and how do global frameworks ensure their safety in this emerging technological landscape?
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Our Listeners - Wendy, Cape Town
By Way With Words Team
Our listener, Wendy, has been with Way With Words since 2014, though she admits with a laugh that she had to pause and reboot her brain to remember the exact month.
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Our Listeners - Carol Ann, Somerset West
By Way With Words Team
For our listener, Carol Ann, work has always been about more than earning a living: it’s about finding purpose in what she does.
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Our Listeners - Jane, Alberton
By Way With Words Team
In a quiet home office in Alberton, South Africa, our listener’s day often begins before the sun has climbed high enough to warm the rooftops.
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Our Listeners - Lana, Cape Town
By Way With Words Team
Meet our listener, Lana, who began her journey with Way With Words in 2018, drawn not only by the company’s professional reputation but by something deeper she saw reflected in the voices of others.
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Our Listeners - Mel Hassan, Egypt
By Way With Words Team
In the quiet of her home in Ismailia, Egypt, our listener, Mel Hassan sits at her desk with her headphones on, and the faint hum of life outside her window.
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How Are Disfluencies Correctly Processed in Training Voice UIs?
By Way With Words Team
This article explores how disfluencies are categorised, why they matter for conversational design, and how they are managed in data collection and modelling pipelines that train voice assistants.
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Speech & Affective Computing: Powerful Real-world Applications
By Way With Words Team
In this article, we explore high-quality speech in affective computing datasets, and the powerful real-world applications already emerging.
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Building Secure, Inclusive, and Effective Speaker Verification Systems
By Way With Words Team
How Does Speaker Verification Rely on Speech Corpora? Building Secure, Inclusive, and Effective Speaker Verification Systems The sound of a voice is becomi...
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Use of Contextual Speech Corpora to Benefit Virtual Assistants
By Way With Words Team
How Do Virtual Assistants Benefit from Contextual Speech Corpora? How to Create Virtual Assistants That Feel Truly Intelligent Voice assistants have moved...
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What Metrics Define Data Sufficiency in Speech Collection?
By Way With Words Team
What Metrics Define Data Sufficiency in Speech Collection? What are the Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics of Data Sufficiency? The success of any speech...
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How Do Synthetic Voices Affect Data Quality in Training?
By Way With Words Team
Synthetic voices has become a powerful tool for speech technology development to accelerate dataset creation and expand coverage to low-resource languages.
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