text-to-speech

Alertus Technologies provides unified mass notification and crisis communication systems. Its Alertus System integrates facility-based alerting devices, network-based alerting, outdoor warning, and personal/mobile notification to reach people during emergencies. The company serves more than 2,500 organizations across 40+ countries, including higher education, K-12, healthcare, commercial, industrial, and government sectors.

crisis communicationemergency management consultingmass notificationmobile alertingoutdoor warningsystem integration

Applied Brain Research (ABR) develops and patents state space models for real-time, on-device edge AI. Founded at the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, ABR builds technology for speech, language processing, and biosignal processing that runs locally without cloud dependency, targeting low-power edge devices.

biosignal processingHardware Deploymentlanguage translationon-device edge AIreal-time speech transcriptionstate space models

Audemic is an educational technology company founded in 2022 and backed by Berkeley Skydeck Fund, dedicated to making hidden knowledge accessible. It offers two products: Audemic Scholar, which transforms research PDFs into a reading and listening experience for PhD students and researchers, and Audemic Insights, providing concise summaries of research articles for non-academics.

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Bottor Technologies Inc. is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based R&D company building AI-powered educational and accessibility technology. Its flagship product is Bottor, a patent-pending AI reading accessibility device with OCR, text-to-speech, adaptive page turning, and accessibility inputs. The company is advancing Bottor through NSF SBIR Phase I research and also builds WiggleWoo's Word Quest, Retro Rack, and RYMA.

adaptive page turningAI learning supportassistive roboticscomputer visionhardware and software developmentOCR

Braille Works is a provider of accessible reading materials for people who are blind, have low vision, dyslexia, or other reading needs. Founded in 1994, the company converts documents to accessible PDFs, braille, large print, and audio formats, and provides document remediation to meet WCAG AA, PDF/UA, Section 508, and HHS compliance standards. It is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, HITRUST compliant, and FISMA audited.

accessibility complianceaudio document productionbraille embossingbraille transcriptionlarge print formattingPDF remediation

Agency Chat provides an auditable AI assistant for government agencies, grounded in official sources using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Every answer cites its source and the assistant refuses when answers aren't supported. Interactions are captured to an agency-owned audit log and delivered monthly as CPRA/FOIA-ready reports, with a public transparency dashboard. It supports 72+ languages, voice input/output, and WCAG 2.1 AA / Section 508 accessibility.

audit loggingautomatic translation (72+ languages)document indexingRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)speech-to-textWCAG 2.1 AA / Section 508 accessibilitywebsite crawling

Cobalt develops speech recognition, voice intelligence, natural language and conversational interface technology that can run on-premise, in a private cloud, or directly on a device. It provides consulting and custom technology services to help organizations bring voice and language solutions to life, and partners with innovators across the speech-language ecosystem to improve clinical workflows and language assessment. SALT Software, a language sample analysis platform, is now part of Cobalt.

acoustic and language model adaptationautomatic speech recognitionconsultingcustom software developmentembedded, on-premise, private cloud, batch and streaming deploymentkeyword and event detectionnatural language understandingPII redactionspeaker diarizationspeaker verification and identificationtranscriptionvoice biometrics

ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and technology company that builds foundational models for voice and audio. Its platforms include ElevenCreative for generating speech, videos, music, and sound effects, and ElevenAgents for configuring, deploying, and monitoring conversational voice and chat agents. The company offers text to speech, speech to text, voice cloning, dubbing, and AI music generation, with voices in 90+ languages.

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Enhanced Vision is a manufacturer of low vision products, including electronic magnifiers and video magnifiers (CCTV) designed to help people with low vision regain visual independence for reading, writing, and viewing objects. Their product lines include DaVinci, Merlin, Acrobat, Transformer HD, Smart Reader HD, Amigo, and Pebble HD.

manufacturingoptical character recognition (OCR)video magnification

Kurzweil Education develops assistive and literacy technology for students, including those with learning difficulties, dyslexia, visual impairments, and those learning English as a second language. Founded in 1996, with roots back to the 1976 Kurzweil Reading Machine, the company offers reading, writing, studying, and test-taking tools built on Universal Design for Learning. It is part of Cambium Learning Group.

browser extensionimage processingoptical character recognition (OCR)remote desktop supportrostering integrationsscanningspeech-to-textSSO integrationstechnical support