AI Tech Consulting Firm Quansight Acquires Cobalt Speech and Language – slator.com
On May 6, 2025, open source technology consulting firm Quansight announced that it had acquired Cobalt Speech and Language, a provider of automatic speech recognition (ASR), transcription, natural language understanding, and other voice technologies in multiple languages. The deal closed April 10, 2025. According to Quansight CEO Travis Oliphant, the purchase was for cash, earn-out, […]
New Research Tackles Key Challenges in AI Speech Recognition and Translation – slator.com
In a February 26, 2025 paper, researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of Cambridge introduced something called LoRS-Merging (Low-Rank and Sparse Model Merging), a technique designed to improve multilingual speech recognition and translation without the need for full retraining. By efficiently merging models trained on different languages or tasks, LoRS-Merging reduces computational costs, minimizes […]