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==Applications==
Voice computing applications span many industries including voice assistants, healthcare, e-Commerce, finance, supply chain, agriculture, text-to-speech, security, marketing, customer support, recruiting, cloud computing, microphones, speakers, and podcasting. Voice technology is projected to grow at a CAGR of 19-25% by 2025, making it an attractive industry for startups and investors alike.<ref>Businesswire. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180417006122/en/Global-Speech-Voice-Recognition-Market-2018-Forecast</ref>
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| [[Voice assistants]]
| [[Cortana]],<ref>Cortana. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cortana</ref> [[Amazon Alexa]],<ref>Amazon Alexa. https://developer.amazon.com/alexa</ref> [[Siri]],<ref>Siri. https://www.apple.com/siri/</ref> [[Google Assistant]],<ref>Google Assistant. https://assistant.google.com/#?modal_active=none</ref> [[Apple HomePod]],<ref>HomePod. https://www.apple.com/homepod/</ref> [[Jasper]],<ref>Jasper https://jasperproject.github.io/</ref> and Nala.,<ref>Nala. https://github.com/jim-schwoebel/nala</ref> [[Amazon Alexa|Alexa]] Voice Service<ref>Alexa Voice Service. https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service</ref>
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| [[Healthcare]]
| Cardiocube,<ref>Cardiocube. https://www.cardiocube.com/</ref> Toneboard,<ref>Toneboard. https://toneboard.com/</ref> Suki,<ref>Suki. https://www.suki.ai/</ref> Praktice.ai,<ref>Praktice.ai. https://praktice.ai/</ref> Corti,<ref>Corti. https://corti.ai/</ref> and Syllable.<ref>Syllable. https://www.syllable.ai/</ref>
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| [[e-Commerce]]
| Cerebel,<ref>Cerebel. https://map.startuplithuania.lt/companies/cerebel</ref> Voysis,<ref>Voysis. https://voysis.com/</ref> Mindori,<ref>Mindori. http://mindori.com/</ref> Twiggle,<ref>Twiggle. https://www.twiggle.com/</ref> and Addstructure.<ref>AddStructure. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/addstructure</ref>
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| [[Finance]]
| Kasisto,<ref>Kasisto. https://kasisto.com/</ref> Personetics,<ref>Personetics. https://personetics.com/</ref> Voxo,<ref>Voxo. https://www.voxo.ai/</ref> and Active Intelligence.<ref>Active Intelligence. https://active.ai/</ref>
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| [[Supply Chain]] and [[Manufacturing]]
| Augury,<ref>Augury. https://www.augury.com/</ref> Kextil,<ref>Kextil. http://www.kextil.com/</ref> 3DSignals,<ref>3DSignals. https://www.3dsig.com/</ref> Voxware,<ref>Voxware. https://www.voxware.com/</ref> and Otosense.<ref>Otosense. https://www.otosense.com/</ref>
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| [[Agriculture]]
| Agvoice.<ref>Agvoice. https://agvoiceglobal.com/</ref>
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| [[Text-to-speech]]
| Lyrebyrd <ref>Lyrebird. https://lyrebird.ai/</ref> and VocalID.<ref>VocalD. https://vocalid.ai/</ref>
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| [[Security]]
| Pindrop security <ref>Pindrop. https://www.pindrop.com/</ref> and Aimbrain.<ref>Aimbrain. https://aimbrain.com/</ref>
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| [[Marketing]]
| Convirza,<ref>Convirza. https://www.convirza.com/</ref> Dialogtech,<ref>Dialogtech. https://www.dialogtech.com/</ref> Invoca,<ref>Invoca. https://www.invoca.com/</ref> and Veritonic.<ref>Veritonic. https://veritonic.com/</ref>
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| [[Customer support]]
| Cogito.,<ref>Cogito. https://www.cogitocorp.com/</ref> Afiniti,<ref>Afiniti. https://www.afiniti.com/</ref> Aaron.ai,<ref>Aaron.ai. https://aaron.ai/</ref> Blueworx,<ref>Blueworx. https://www.blueworx.com/</ref> Servo.ai,<ref>Servo.ai. https://www.servo.ai/</ref> [[SmartAction]], and Chatdesk.<ref>Chatdesk. https://chatdesk.com/</ref>
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| [[Recruitment|Recruiting]]
| SurveyLex <ref>SurveyLex. https://www.surveylex.com/</ref> and Voice glance.<ref>Voice glance. https://voiceglance.com/</ref>
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| [[Speech-to-text]]
| Voicebase,<ref>Voicebase. https://www.voicebase.com/</ref> Speechmatics,<ref>Speechmatics. https://www.speechmatics.com/</ref> Capio,<ref>Capio. https://www.capio.ai/</ref> [[Nuance Communications|Nuance]], and Spitch.,<ref>Spitch. https://www.spitch.ch/</ref> [[AWS]] Transcribe
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| [[Cloud computing]]
| [[AWS]],<ref>AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/</ref> [[Google Cloud Platform|GCP]],<ref>GCP. https://cloud.google.com/</ref> [[Watson (computer)|IBM Watson]],<ref>IBM Watson. https://www.ibm.com/watson/</ref> and [[Microsoft Azure]].<ref>Microsoft Azure. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/</ref>
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| [[Microphone]]/[[Loudspeaker|speaker]] design
| [[Bose Corporation|Bose]]<ref>Bose speakers. https://www.bose.com/en_us/shop_all/speakers/speakers.html</ref> and Audio Technica.<ref>Audio Technica. https://www.audio-technica.com/cms/site/c35da94027e94819/index.html</ref>
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| [[Podcasting]]
| Anchor <ref>Anchor. https://anchor.fm/</ref> and [[iTunes]].<ref>iTunes. https://www.apple.com/itunes/</ref>
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==Legal considerations==
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