InBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazinebyRobert Dale·Jun 26, 2023Navigating the Text Generation Revolution: Traditional Data-to-Text NLG Companies and the Rise of…Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022, generative AI has been talked about endlessly in both the technical press and the…A response icon1A response icon1
InTDS ArchivebyRobert Dale·Jan 9, 2023NLP Startup Funding in 2022It’s no secret that the commercial application of NLP technologies has exploded in recent years. From chatbots and virtual assistants to…A response icon1A response icon1
InBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazinebyRobert Dale·Apr 13, 2022The Voice Synthesis Business: 2022 UpdateIn the past few years, high-quality automated text-to-speech synthesis has effectively become a commodity, with easy access to cloud-based…
InTDS ArchivebyRobert Dale·Dec 23, 2021$NLP: How to Spend a Billion DollarsA whistle-stop tour of around 120 NLP start-ups that received early-stage funding in the last 12 months
InTDS ArchivebyRobert Dale·Jul 15, 2021The Automated Writing Assistance Landscape in 2021A panoramic look at the past and future of the field, from the Unix Writer’s Workbench to Grammarly and beyond
InTDS ArchivebyRobert Dale·Dec 8, 2020GPT-3: What’s it good for?GPT-3 made the mainstream media headlines this year, generating far more interest than we’d normally expect of a technical advance in NLP…
InBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazinebyRobert Dale·Jun 7, 2020Natural Language Generation: The Commercial State of the Art in 2020It took a while, but natural language generation is now an established commercial software category. It’s commented upon frequently in…A response icon4A response icon4
InBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazinebyRobert Dale·Dec 30, 2019Voice Assistance in 2019The end of the calendar year always seems like a good time to pause for breath and reflect on what’s been happening over the last 12…
InTDS ArchivebyRobert Dale·Sep 26, 2019Five Tips for a Successful APIIt’s now remarkably easy to release to the world a cloud-based application programming interface (API) that provides some software…
InTDS ArchivebyRobert Dale·May 20, 2019NLP commercialization in the last 25 yearsThe Natural Language Engineering journal is now in its 25th year. The editorial preface to the first issue back in 1995 emphasized that…