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Unlocking precision and speed: Discover the latest enhancements to Kensho Scribe
We are excited to introduce the latest update to Kensho Scribe AI, our speech-to-text transcription tool. From meeting note documentation to earnings call transcription, our enhanced model offers cutting-edge technology to streamline your workflow and deliver precise results. This new model delivers a 30% reduction in errors compared to our previous model while significantly increasing output quality. These latest advancements can transform your transcription experience and drive greater efficiency in your operations.
Analyzing complex documents just got easier
Need help parsing your complex, messy documents? Kensho Extract has you covered.
How human-reviewed machine-readable transcripts supercharge audio data
Machine-Readable Human-Reviewed (MRHR) transcripts merge modern technological capabilities with human reassurance to produce a transcription that is machine-readable and human-reviewed.
Unlocking the power of ASR: From transcription hassles to business advantages
In the ever-evolving landscape of innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI), speech-to-text technology, or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), is a shining example of progress.
Kensho now offers a connection to Business Entity Cross Reference Service from its Link solution
Kensho Link can now connect not only to S&P Global CIQ IDs, but also all BECRS-provided IDs. This new unified service combines the ML-powered entity mapping accuracy of Link with the expansive company identifier data from BECRS into a single efficient workflow.
What is data enrichment?
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, data is more than just a collection of ones and zeros; it’s the lifeblood of modern businesses. We are excited to delve into the transformative potential of data enrichment and its profound impact on organizational strategies, customer insights, and overall success. Join us as we explore how this process, executed through innovative tools like Kensho NERD and Kensho Link, is shaping the future of decision-making.
Kensho NERD: Introducing People Linking
The most-requested new feature for Kensho NERD has arrived: recognizing and disambiguating people in financial documents.
Kensho launches Word Error Rate Calculator
WER Calculator is for Automated Speech Recognition Developers to Determine Accuracy of Transcription Outputs
Kensho industry use case: Natural language processing for document management systems
In today’s information-driven world, organizations face the daunting challenge of efficiently managing and extracting value from vast amounts of textual data. This is where Natural Language Processing (NLP) comes to the rescue. NLP, a branch of artificial intelligence, empowers document management systems to understand, interpret, and extract meaningful insights from unstructured text. By combining the power of linguistics, machine learning, and data processing techniques, NLP revolutionizes how organizations handle documents, enabling them to unlock the untapped potential of their textual data.
Kensho industry use case: Entity & thematic tagging for document filtering and search
Expert networks are professional services firms that are increasingly diversifying their business model to include online platforms to complement their core expert call business, usually one-on-one research consultations. Through an expert network service, a CEO can find and interview a professional with relevant expertise to interview on a topic. The audio of the conversation is recorded, transcribed into text, then provided to the client. From there, expert networks compile all transcribed interviews into an online web-based library, which is accessible with a paid subscription.
Word Error Rate primer
Word Error Rate (WER) is a commonly used metric to judge the accuracy of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. It is the ratio of errors in the ASR’s transcription to the total number of words spoken. Although there are other metrics to measure how well an ASR system is performing, WER is a relatively simple but actionable metric that allows us to compare ASR systems to one another, and evaluate an individual ASR system’s accuracy over time.
Combining speech-to-text AI and human effort to create bespoke transcriptions
With Kensho’s Scribe’s Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) service, you receive an AI-assisted human-edited transcript where every word is transcribed the way you intend it to be and every page looks the way you intend it to look.
Kensho industry use case: Lease abstraction
Managing a portfolio of commercial real estate is no easy task, though, particularly considering the length and complexity of leases involved. That’s why REITs have a shared services division tasked with a process called lease abstraction, in which the most pertinent information within a complex commercial lease agreement is extracted and uploaded to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Kensho industry use case: Extraction of SASB data from CSR reports
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) sets rules called SASB standards, which identify environmental, social and governance issues most relevant to financial performance in various industries. The process of finding and extracting SASB data from CSR reports is manual and time consuming. Kensho’s AI Toolkit can provide automation and time savings.
Kensho Extract is now available on S&P Global Marketplace
We’re thrilled to announce that Kensho Extract is now available on the S&P Global Marketplace. S&P Global Marketplace is a site that enables users to easily find datasets and machine-enabled solutions from across S&P Global. The inclusion of Extract underscores the growing importance of Kensho’s technology in the financial services industry.
Monetizing audio is the new competitive advantage
Audio, and the emerging trend of audio as a data set, is a valuable but underutilized resource. Until recently, the transcription of audio was expensive and often slow due to manual processes. In short, it was only as fast as qualified humans could properly transcribe it. That’s changing thanks to major breakthroughs in AI transcription.
Kensho-Tegus case study
How Tegus used Kensho’s AI to reduce their administrative workload by 70% and level up their compliance funnel.
Kensho industry use case: Private equity due diligence for Credit Agreements (CAs)
Private Equity (PE) is one of the fastest growing and most lucrative sectors of the financial industry. When a PE firm has identified a company of interest, it must conduct research on various aspects of the company, financial, legal, commercial, etc. in a process called due diligence. Classify and Extract KVP are complementary solutions that would help PE Associates more quickly “scan read” documents in the due diligence process.
Maximizing accuracy in speech-to-text transcription with custom dictionaries for automated speech recognition (ASR)
Kensho Scribe permits users to input custom dictionaries in an intuitive and self-service way. Custom dictionaries make ASR models work for your niche industry, and Kensho makes it easy to input your own dictionary with no software experience.
Introducing NERD UI: The revolutionary tool for research and analysis
The NERD UI will now allow users to gain insight into the who, what and where of any document, making research and analysis easy. For any proper noun, NERD provides additional relevant information at the user’s fingertips.
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