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More than 98 Percent of Public Schools Made Concerted Efforts to Promote Pandemic-Related Learning Recovery During the 2021-22 School Year

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Public school leaders estimated that half of their students (50 percent) began the 2021-22 school year behind grade level in at least one academic subject, according to data released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center of the U.S. Department of Education. Of schools that reported having students behind grade level in at least one academic subject, 64 percent believed that the COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in students beginning this school year behind grade level.

Key Points: 
  • More than 98 percent of public schools employed strategies to support pandemic-related learning recovery during the 2021-22 school year.
  • Public schools continue to support learning recovery this summer, with 75 percent offering learning and enrichment programs run by the school or district and 70 percent offering summer school, among other traditional summer program offerings.
  • Around one-third of public schools offering these programs reported increasing the amount of summer programming they offered specifically to support pandemic-related learning recovery.
  • The June survey provides data focused on learning recovery, summer learning, staff vacancies, learning modes offered by schools, and student and staff quarantine prevalence, as reported by school staff in U.S. public schools.

WellSaid Labs Makes Noise Proving Business Demand for AI Voice

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Customers value WellSaid Labs incredibly high level of realistic human-voice capability and rely on WellSaid Labs business mission critical 99.99% uptime SLA.

Key Points: 
  • Customers value WellSaid Labs incredibly high level of realistic human-voice capability and rely on WellSaid Labs business mission critical 99.99% uptime SLA.
  • Today WellSaid Labs Voice Avatar library provides access to 50 AI voices companies can use for their productions.
  • WellSaid Labs is the leading AI text-to-speech technology company and first synthetic media service to achieve human-parity in voice.
  • For more information go to www.wellsaidlabs.com
    In Q3 2022 alone, customers nationwide deployed WellSaid Labs AI voice solutions to create more than 30,000 hours of voice content, says Martin Ramirez, WellSaid Labs Head of Growth

Training The Street Names Barry Schnell as New Chief Commercial Officer

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Training The Street (TTS), the world's leading provider of financial training, announced today that Barry Schnell has been appointed as Chief Commercial Officer. Schnell brings over 20 years of business development experience and will be responsible for driving Training The Street's sales and marketing efforts to reach more customers and students.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Training The Street (TTS), the world's leading provider of financial training, announced today that Barry Schnell has been appointed as Chief Commercial Officer.
  • "Barry has an exceptional track record of creating innovative go-to-market strategies, along with expertise in building highly effective sales teams," said Scott Rostan, CEO of Training The Street.
  • "The creation of the Chief Commercial Officer function comes at a perfect time for TTS, as we seek to build upon our 20 years of financial training success through strategic customer acquisition.
  • Schnell joins Training The Street from Oriel STAT A MATRIX, where he was most recently Senior Vice President of Business Development.

Mycroft AI Launches Mimic 3 Text-to-Speech Software for Voice Assistant and Emerging Tech

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

This open-source neural TTS software is designed to provide the most natural sounding voice to date, with over two dozen languages and more than 100 different voice sets.

Key Points: 
  • This open-source neural TTS software is designed to provide the most natural sounding voice to date, with over two dozen languages and more than 100 different voice sets.
  • Tired of wondering if your home voice assistant is listening or recording conversations?
  • Its flagship product, Mycroft, is the worlds leading open-source voice assistant platform.
  • Mycroft voice assistant technology may be used in anything from a ninth grade science project, a voice-powered sports car, or even a personalized assistant in a themed resort.

Total Testing Solutions Supports 'Test to Treat' Program by Broadening Test Options for California Patients

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Monday, June 27, 2022

LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Testing Solutions (TTS), a Los Angeles-based medical diagnostic COVID-19 testing service provider, has announced that they are now offering telehealth consultations for those who test positive in support of the Biden Administration's 'Test to Treat' program. The 'Test to Treat' program offers testing, and for patients who test positive, prescriptions from a healthcare provider all in one location to provide affected individuals with free and convenient lifesaving treatment.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Testing Solutions (TTS), a Los Angeles-based medical diagnostic COVID-19 testing service provider,has announced that they are now offering telehealth consultations for those who test positive in support of the Biden Administration's 'Test to Treat' program.
  • The 'Test to Treat' program offers testing, and for patients who test positive, prescriptions from a healthcare provider all in one location to provide affected individuals with free and convenient lifesaving treatment.
  • "We are proud to be offering telehealth options to give more patients access to testing and treatments as part of the Biden Administration's 'Test to Treat' program," said TTS CEO and Co-Founder, Lauren Trenkle.
  • As the nation transitions into a new phase of the pandemic,Total Testing Solutions continuesto provide robust testing and vaccination services in conjunction with occupational health and other employee well-being solutions.

Defined.ai to Play Significant Role in Accelerat.ai, the Government of Portugal-Approved AI Initiative

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

The project, born from the EU Digital Compass 2030 initiative, is financed partly through a 16 billion ($17 billion) award granted to Portugal as part of the initiative.

Key Points: 
  • The project, born from the EU Digital Compass 2030 initiative, is financed partly through a 16 billion ($17 billion) award granted to Portugal as part of the initiative.
  • It is also the first of many projects from Portugal's Center of Excellence for AI.
  • The mandate of the consortium is to make it easier to develop trustworthy AI apps and use unbiased data in European Portuguese.
  • And, because the future of AI is complicated, Defined.ai can also offer professional services to help deliver success in complex machine learning projects.

China Automotive Voice Industry Report 2022: From IVI Software to ADAS, Voice-enabled Functions Continue to Evolve with iFLYTEK and Cerence Leading

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Thursday, June 16, 2022

DUBLIN, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "China Automotive Voice Industry Report, 2021-2022" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • DUBLIN, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "China Automotive Voice Industry Report, 2021-2022" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • From IVI software to ADAS, voice-enabled functions continue to evolve
    In terms of functionality, what is controlled by voice ranges from IVI software (music, navigation, etc.)
  • Cerence ARK is a turnkey automotive product that enables automakers to quickly develop, deploy and manage a fully localized automotive voice assistant.
  • At present, PATEO's Qing AI voice platform has been connected to the voice capabilities of Cerence, Baidu, AIspeech and iFlytek.

Economic Uncertainty Increasing - But Not for MBAs

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Thursday, June 16, 2022

NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Reserve is tightening, markets are volatile and much of the nation is struggling with surging inflation and worried about a slowing economy. But those concerns seem a world away for most MBAs, many of whom will be earning more than $150K per year and looking for a more flexible working environment, according to the 14th annual Training The Street (TTS) MBA Employment Survey.

Key Points: 
  • In addition, a large percentage of MBAs say they want to work either remotely or in a hybrid model and many say they're willing to take a substantial monetary hit to do so.
  • More than one quarter - 27% - said they would consider taking less compensation/a lower salary in exchange for the ability to work remotely full-time.
  • Additionally, only 4% of respondents reported not receiving a job offer yet - compared with 26% of respondents a year ago.
  • Additionally, TTS leads workshops at more than 100 academic clients, including the top business schools globally.

AppTek Named a Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for AI-Enabled Translation Services

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Thursday, June 16, 2022

MCLEAN, Va., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AppTek, a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing / Understanding (NLP/U) technologies, announced today it has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the May 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for AI-Enabled Translation Services¹.  The report provides application leaders with This research provides "application leaders with an overview of this emerging class of translation services."

Key Points: 
  • MCLEAN, Va., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AppTek, a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing / Understanding (NLP/U) technologies, announced today it has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the May 2022 Gartner Market Guide for AI-Enabled Translation Services .
  • "We are honored to be recognized as one the Representative Vendors in this Gartner AI-Enabled Translation Services Market Guide for the second time," said AppTek CEO, Mudar Yaghi.
  • Apptek recently announced its top ranking in the isometric speech translation track at the 19th annual International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2022).
  • Gartner, "Market Guide for AI-Enabled Translation Services," Bern Elliot, Gabriele Rigon, Adrian Lee, JC Martel, May 31, 2022.

China Automotive Voice Industry Report, 2021-2022: The Boom of Self-research by OEMs will Promote Reform in the Supply Mode - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

In 2021, more than 5.5 million vehicles of Chinese automakers were outfitted with voice feature, a year-on-year spike of 40.4%.

Key Points: 
  • In 2021, more than 5.5 million vehicles of Chinese automakers were outfitted with voice feature, a year-on-year spike of 40.4%.
  • Cerence ARK is a turnkey automotive product that enables automakers to quickly develop, deploy and manage a fully localized automotive voice assistant.
  • At present, PATEO's Qing AI voice platform has been connected to the voice capabilities of Cerence, Baidu, AIspeech and iFlytek.
  • OEMs are not only demanders, but also technology suppliers and system integrators in the voice supply chain.