Talk:Speechmatics

COI edit request: remove promotional tone and improve neutrality

Disclosure: I work for / have a conflict of interest with Speechmatics and am requesting that independent editors review and apply the edits below.

The article is currently tagged for promotional content (September 2024). The proposed changes below focus on removing marketing language, improving neutrality, and keeping only verifiable factual statements.

1) Lead section rewrite (neutral tone)

Current:

Speechmatics is a technology company based in Cambridge, England, which develops automatic speech recognition software (ASR) based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modelling. Speechmatics was originally named Cantab Research Ltd when founded in 2006 by speech recognition specialist Dr. Tony Robinson.

Proposed:

Speechmatics Ltd is a British speech recognition company based in Cambridge, England. It develops automatic speech recognition (ASR) software and speech-to-text services. The company was founded in 2006 by Tony Robinson and was originally named Cantab Research Ltd.

2) Remove promotional language in company overview

Current:

Speechmatics offers its speech recognition for solution and service providers to integrate into their stack regardless of their industry or use case. Businesses use Speechmatics to understand and transcribe human-level speech into text regardless of any gender or demographic barrier. The technology can be deployed on-premises and in public and private cloud.

Proposed:

Speechmatics provides speech recognition software and application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be integrated into third-party products and services. Its offerings include real-time and batch speech-to-text transcription, with deployment options including cloud-based and on-premises installations.

3) History section tone cleanup

Current:

Speechmatics was founded in 2006 by Tony Robinson who pioneered in the application of recurrent neural networks to speech recognition. He was one of the early people who has discovered the practical capabilities of deep neural networks and how they can be used to benefit speech recognition.

Proposed:

Speechmatics was founded in 2006 by Tony Robinson, a researcher in speech recognition. Robinson had previously worked on the application of neural network techniques to speech recognition.

4) Product descriptions – remove evaluative claims

Example current:

In March 2023, Speechmatics released Ursa - a speech-to-text engine setting a new benchmark in transcription accuracy.

Proposed:

In March 2023, Speechmatics announced Ursa, a speech-to-text engine designed for speech-to-text transcription.

5) Infobox cleanup

If revenue, employee count, or office locations in the infobox are not supported by reliable independent sources, I suggest removing or updating them per Wikipedia sourcing guidelines.

Thank you for reviewing. Speechmatics-Tom-123 (talk) 16:26, 7 January 2026 (UTC)