No time to read all tweets, scoops, blogs? Here is a summary of the Top Ten LT stories of the month, selected by our LangTechNews editor Andrew Joscelyne. Enjoy – and if you have a newsworthy story, contact us.
 
  1. News favourite of the month: France’s Syllabs produces unique texts in multiple languages, real time and large quantities. For lots of different end users.
     
  2. Sinequa helps DZ Bank staff to do more work better with cognitive search and analytics.
     
  3. Stanford University 2017 AI Index Report aims to measure AI progress more scientifically.
     
  4. The Global Legal Hackathon next February will hopefully feature lots of LT applications.
     
  5. The Bulgarian company Media Monitor is launching an innovative machine learning-driven platform.
     
  6. For legal eagles, the US company LawDroid is disrupting the profession with its first voice-activated legal bot.
     
  7. Not surprisingly in an ML decade, chipsets for deep learning systems are set to grow and grow.
     
  8. Reports of the month: first on speech analytics, due to grow at 28% for at least three years.
     
  9. More generally, this speech tech report covers a lot of ground, but not many EU companies.
     
  10. And finally, see what this Indian speech tech company is doing to beat the giants in both language coverage and quality.