FPGAs Find Their Voice: Achronix and the Economics of Speech Recognition

Speech recognition has become one of the most pervasive AI applications. It’s in our phones, our cars, our call centers—everywhere we need a fast, natural human–machine interface. Training the models that make this work is a cloud-scale GPU problem, but running those models in production—day in and day out—is all about inference. That’s where the economics start to matter.