Speechmatics was originally named Cantab Research Ltd when founded in 2006 by speech recognition specialist Dr. Tony Robinson.

[1][2] Speechmatics offers its speech recognition for solution and service providers to integrate into their stack regardless of their industry or use case.

[4][5] Speechmatics was founded in 2006 by Tony Robinson who pioneered in the application of recurrent neural networks to speech recognition.

[11] Around the same time Speechmatics announced a partnership with Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) to develop advanced Arabic speech to text services.

[17][18] In March 2021, Speechmatics announced its launch on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to offer any-context speech recognition technology at scale.

Ursa, trained on millions of hours of audio data, captures spoken words in noisy and challenging environments.