Cobalt Employee Directory

Cobalt Speech & Language, Inc. is a new, independent, commercial software lab. Cobalt is new: It was founded by Jeff Adams. Jeff previously built and managed world-class speech & language software groups at Nuance, Yap, and Amazon. Cobalt is commercial: The company is focused on bringing speech and language technology to end users. The company hire... top speech & language scientists & engineers, but the company don't live in an ivory tower. The company brings a century of experience working on products like Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Amazon Echo. Cobalt is independent: The major commercial speech labs (such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon) are dedicated to the products of those companies. Cobalt is available to partner with you for your products. The company pioneered groundbreaking continuous learning techniques for Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and made dramatic improvements to Dragon's ability to customize models for speakers and market segments. The company built unprecedented human-human telephone speech recognition at Yap, matching the performance of competitors using off-shore human transcribers. The company oversaw & built the groundbreaking speech recognition in the Amazon Echo. The company is recognized in the speech field for the company's ability to build great teams that build great products.Read More