Speechmatics

Tony Robinson studied Natural Sciences (Physics) at Cambridge (1981–1984), then earned an MPhil and PhD in Computer Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge, completing his doctorate in 1989. He built one of the first neural-network-based speech recognition systems as a PhD student, and by 1994 his system was among the top ten in the DARPA Continuous Speech Evaluation — the only neural network entry among nine HMM systems, a landmark proof of concept. He has published over 100 research papers and taught a generation of Cambridge speech researchers who shaped the industry. In 2006 he founded Speechmatics, which now supports over 55 languages with neural-network-driven ASR.