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title: "Speechmatics: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Speechmatics is a technology company based in Cambridge, England, which develops automatic speech recognition software (ASR) based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modelling. Speechmatics was originally named Cantab Research Ltd when founded in 2006 by speech recognition specialist Dr."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-speechmatics
type: Organization
wikidata: Q55099392
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechmatics
website: https://www.speechmatics.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Speechmatics

> Speechmatics is a technology company based in Cambridge, England, which develops automatic speech recognition software (ASR) based on recurrent neural networks and statistical language modelling. Speechmatics was originally named Cantab Research Ltd when founded in 2006 by speech recognition specialist Dr.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-speechmatics

## Facts

- Category: Speech and language
- Country: United Kingdom
- Founded: 2006-01-01
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.speechmatics.com/
- Employees: 113 (as of 2021-01-01)
- Also known as: Cantab Research, SPEECHMATICS, Speechmatics Ltd
- Industries: speech recognition

## Key people

- Tony Robinson, founder (pioneer in the application of recurrent neural networks to speech recognition)

## Revenue

- 2018-01-01: EUR 3.1 million (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: EUR 11.3 million (Wikidata)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Speechmatics, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-speechmatics#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55099392, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechmatics

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