Attest

Attest | February 21, 2020

What does ‘Made in Britain’ suggest to you? For many consumers, it suggests craft, style and quality, with perhaps a modest sprinkling of good humour, too. For many British companies, having a Made in Britain label is a key part of their brand identity, helping them sell more products and export into established, new and emerging markets. But with Brexit looming uncomfortably large, does a Made in Britain label still carry weight?...

Attest | December 07, 2017

In the midst of Brexit Britain, Attest has carried out research to find out about consumer perception of British brands and products. Does a 'Made in Britain' label make a difference to consumer brand perception? Attest, a brand intelligence and consumer insights platform, surveyed 2,000 British and 2,000 American people, and these are some of the findings: When asked to list their favorite British brands, Cadbury and M&S had the best brand perception for British participants, while ...

Google | January 13, 2020

Google is finally ready to give Android users in EU the choice of alternative search engines but surprisingly it’s DuckDuckGo that has been regarded as the most preferred choice whereas Bing stood at last. From 1st March 2020, European Union citizens will get the advantage to choose one out of four search engines as their default (including Google). By doing so, they will not only see their selected choice for making searches in Chrome, but also through Android home screen search box and a...

Facebook | January 13, 2020

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today said it’s open-sourcing wav2letter@anywhere, a deep learning-based inference framework that achieves fast performance for online automatic speech recognition in cloud or embedded edge environments. Wav2letter@anywhere is based on neural net-based language models wav2letter and wav2letter++, which upon its release in December 2018, FAIR called the fastest open source speech recognition system available. Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is used to turn ...