Eric Bolo is the CTO of Batvoice Technologies, a speech analytics startup based in Paris, France. Eric talks about building a custom speech-to-text system for their flagship product, Call Watch.

He introduces us to speech analytics and audio-mining, and describes some typical applications. We go into detail about speech-to-text (STT) technologies, and discuss the pros and cons of using cloud STT services such as Google speech versus building a custom STT system yourself.

Eric tells us about the latest open source tools and frameworks for building STT systems, and how to get that precious voice data to train our models. We learn how to build and annotate a custom voice dataset ourselves, and hear his advice on starting a voice first company.

This is a great first episode to kick off the series! Eric is super smart, with excellent technical skills and a real passion for voice technology. We already know each other quite well, so I couldn't think of anyone I'd rather have as my first guest on the show. I know you're gonna enjoy hearing what he had to say!

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Episode description:

David Borish is Chief Creative at PRIMO AI, a New York startup that recommends the highest performing Speech-to-text (STT) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) services for a particular dataset and geographical region. We discover what the biggest problem with speech to text systems is today, and why trying to solve it by hiring data scientists can be prohibitively expensive.

We also discuss the advantages of acquiring a technology patent, why David chose to recently enter the voice space, and the approach he takes when selecting his next entrepreneurial challenge. David is a seasoned startup veteran who believes passionately in the future of voice, and our conversation contains many valuable lessons to take away.


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* Available at http://bit.ly/voicetechpodcast-ep038 

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* Phebi Voice Search https://getphebi.com
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* David Borish homepage: http://www.davidborish.com 
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