Samsung acquires Greek text-to-speech startup Innoetics for under $50M

{rss:content:encoded} Samsung acquires Greek text-to-speech startup Innoetics for under $50M http://ift.tt/2sZOlZk http://ift.tt/2bamOdG July 11, 2017 at 12:38PM  With the launch of Bixby and reports that Samsung is building its own competitor to Amazon’s Echo, the consumer electronics giant has now made an acquisition that could help power its next generation of voice-powered services. Samsung has acquired Innoetics, a startup out of Greece that has developed text-to-speech and voice-to-speech technology that can, among other things, listen to… Read More