April 1, 2019
2019 Turing Award Winners
On March 27th, 2019, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest society of computing professionals, announced that Drs. LeCun, Hinton, and Bengio had won this year’s Turing Award for their work on neural networks (NY Times, WIRED). The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called…
July 23, 2018
Enterprise: Where No Voice Has Gone Before
Looking forward to the talk at the VOICE summit in Newark on July 24 how Voice and AI will transform every enterprise. We have entered the voice-first era, where voice will not just be used for simple tasks like control the meeting or book conference room, it will be used to complete mission-critical business…
June 16, 2018
Why Alan?
In 1950, Alan Turing asked the question, “Can computers think?” To answer that question, this innovative British mathematician established the notable Turing Test to determine a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, a human. Also known as Artificial Intelligence. Over half a century later, the…
June 11, 2018
Alan @ IIT Bay Area Leadership Conference 2018
In this picture, Senior Product Manager James Shelburne (far left), CEO & Founder Ramu Sunkara (far left), CPO Gaurav Kuchhal, and Business Developer Norm Koo (far right) pose with IIT team member (center). Alan's 1st trade show - IIT Bay Area Leadership Conference at Santa Clara on June 9, 2018.…
February 28, 2018
Neural Networks for Spoken Language Understanding (SLU)
Yesterday, our CTO, Andrey Ryabov shared our learnings in developing a Neural Network for Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) with students at Stanford University. It is part of the AI course on Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Here is a brief on the topics covered. Spoken language is quite different from the…
February 9, 2018
2018 will be the year of Voice in Enterprise
2017 was a year of Cambrian explosion for voice-enabled devices. Echo Dot was Amazon’s best-seller during the holiday period. CES this year offered a glimpse into the future of conversational voice: a world where consumers can use voice to control everything — thermostats, lamps, sprinklers, security systems, smartwatch, fitness bracelet, smart TV, or their…
December 18, 2017
Taking your Voice Assistant to the Office
Voice assistants have been finding their way into our daily lives. Among at home voice-enabled speaker devices, Amazon has taken a 70% market foothold and sold over 25 million units, while Google trails behind at 23.8% market share and selling 5 million units. These devices, along with their mobile counterparts Siri, Cortana,…
December 4, 2017
Entering the Voice Information Era
We are entering an era where the voice is being transformed from audio to information. Contributing factors are behavioral changes in smartphones and voice-controlled speakers, advancements in infrastructure technology, and reduction in infrastructure pricing. Today we use products like Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Voice with voice commands, and…
November 26, 2017
Tapping into Voice at Work
At work, we’re always trying to be more productive: to get more out of doing less, whether it’s our time, our tools, or our method of communication. Digital tools like email, collaboration apps, and messengers have helped us do that, but there’s the one method of communication everyone uses at…
November 15, 2017
Future of Voice in Enterprise
We talk with our co-workers, customers, partners, and other stakeholders in business every day. In every meeting, whether in-person, web conference or over the phone, we use voice as the primary medium of communication. Be it project meetings, sales calls, support calls or interviews, precious information is contained in these…
September 1, 2017
Era of Infinite Computing
We’re living in the era of Infinite Computing with the creation of Cloud Platforms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our daily lives are transformed by services like Google, Facebook, and Uber. The phone revolution leverages the cloud services to talk to anyone on the planet, get to any place, order anything, and get entertained without taking…
August 22, 2017
“Age of Accelerations”
I recently read Tom Friedman’s book “Thank You for Being Late”. One of the key takeaways is that we live in the “age of accelerations” due to the technology industry. Wireless networks and phones enable us to capture information easily and transfer it onto the Internet, which is then distributed…
August 15, 2017
What did you hear?
The average working adult spends 31.5% of their time listening. According to research by Adler, Rosenfeld, and Proctor, in their seminal research published in the 8th edition of their book, “Interplay: The process of interpersonal communicating”, we spend 70 % of our time communicating and 45% of that time listening. …
August 5, 2017
“What did you say?”
Millions of people still write notes on paper. According to research published by Mueller (Princeton) and Oppenheimer (UCLA) “taking notes by hand is better than taking notes on a laptop for remembering conceptual information long term.” But it’s hard to take notes by hand and simultaneously contribute to business discussions.…
May 11, 2017
TiEcon 2017 names Synqq as a TiE50 Winner
We are excited to announce that Synqq has been selected as a “2017 TiE50 Winner” for the prestigious TiE50 Awards Program recognizing the world’s most innovative tech startups. Winners were announced on Friday, May 5th at the Santa Clara Convention Center during TiE Silicon Valley’s annual tech entrepreneurship conference, TiEcon.…
May 10, 2017
Thank you for arriving “Just in Time”
Are millennials better prepared for the "Age of Accelerations"? In his latest book “Thank You for Being Late”, Thomas Friedman asserts that we live in the “age of accelerations” - due to Moore’s Law, market globalization, and climate change. The problem is that our ability to adapt is only improving…
October 16, 2016
Hear! Hear! Voice has arrived
With the recent announcement of Apple AirPods and Google Pixel -- as well as Google Home – voice has finally entered the consumer mainstream, at long last. Apple struck first on September 7th with its announcement of the next generation of Siri on iPhone 7 and iOS10. This announcement included…
July 18, 2016
Security by Design
At Synqq, we ensure your data is protected and uncompromised when in transit and while at rest. Here’s how we do it: #1: Encryption for data in transit and at rest. The data transfer from the Synqq cloud to the devices and browsers are always Transport Layer Security encrypted, commonly…