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Corti’s new Symphony for Speech-to-Text model beats OpenAI at medical terminology accuracy, highlighting the value of specialized AI

Corti’s new Symphony for Speech-to-Text model beats OpenAI at medical terminology accuracy, highlighting the value of specialized AI

Published by skeptic

Today, Copenhagen-based healthcare AI Corti is launching Symphony for Speech-to-Text, a new generation of clinical-grade speech recognition models engineered specifically for real-time dictation, conversational transcription, and batch audio processing — and their accuracy rate is the highest for this specific use case yet recorded. “We are focused on ensuring our AI scribes can be trusted by physicians, medical practitioners and patients…the entire healthcare system,” said Andreas Cleve, co-founder and CEO of Corti, in an exclusive video call interview with VentureBeat. The performance data the company is bringing to the table paints a stark picture of the current state of enterprise AI: when it comes to highly regulated, specialized industries, domain-specific models can beat out the foundation model providers. In a newly published research paper, Corti revealed that its new clinical-grade speech models reduced word error rates (WER) by up to 93% when compared against leading generalist speech models and APIs on medical terminology. On English medical terminology, its Symphony for Speech-to-Text achieved a remarkably low 1.4% WER. By comparison, OpenAI’s speech model registered a 17.7% …

Cortis Experience Seduces Fans to Seoul as Airbnb Doubles Down on K-pop Strategy

Cortis Experience Seduces Fans to Seoul as Airbnb Doubles Down on K-pop Strategy

Published by Daniella Wilson

K-pop has not only conquered the world, it has brought the world to South Korea. That was the somewhat unsurprising headline finding of a new research study commissioned by Airbnb as part of its ongoing collaboration with some of the country’s biggest music stars. Last week, Airbnb threw open the doors to a neon-lit, fully immersive experience created in partnership with K-pop boy band Cortis. At the same time, the company quietly dropped an in-depth report titled “Korea Calling: How K-Culture Is Driving a New Generation of Travelers into Korea.” While the Cortis experience lit up social media as fans flocked to central Seoul in hopes of getting a glimpse of one of K-pop’s fastest-rising groups, the research study laid bare the savvy strategy behind the global travel brand’s growing efforts to align its identity in Korea with the country’s greatest cultural exports. Airbnb’s report, which was based on a survey of several thousand international guests to Korea, found that 94 percent of visitors and prospective travelers to the country say K-culture influenced their interest …