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The Rapport Report
Day in the Life of a VP of Engineering: Meet Attila!
In this month’s edition of our Day in the Life series, we are featuring VP of Engineering, Attila Vass. He is a valued member of our Executive...
Rachel Laws
Dec 1, 2022
Company News
Websummit 2022: Building Rapport in Lisbon
Over 71,000 people redefining the tech industry were present at Websummit, the world’s leading technology conference, this November in Lisbon,...
Rapport
Nov 16, 2022
Company News
Pride 2022 at Rapport!
Rapport's Pride celebrations focus on our new diversity and inclusion strategy, which includes diversity training, awareness raising, and inclusive...
Ellen Grieve
Jun 22, 2022
Company News
Augmented World Expo 2022: Connecting the World of Extended Reality Enthusiasts
At the beginning of June, some of the team here at Rapport had the opportunity to attend the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara. After 2 years of...
Rachel Laws
Jun 14, 2022
Company News
Game Developers Conference 2022: Face-to-face with the latest in audio-driven facial animation!
Towards the end of March, our team had the opportunity to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The event attracts artists,...
Rapport
Apr 6, 2022
Company News
Pull up a chair to our version of “book club”: Discussing the metaverse, women in tech and more.
This March marks two full years of remote work for many employees, our team at Speech Graphics/Rapport included. Aside from the obvious differences...
Rapport
Mar 16, 2022
Company News
Building Rapport: A conversation with our founders
An increasing number of customer interactions are taking place digitally, and as a result, there is a similar increase in the demand for authenticity...
Rapport
Feb 23, 2022
Learn + Explore
Climb out of the uncanny valley with these 4 facial animation tips
As animation becomes more realistic, our expectations of how digital characters perform increase as well. From video game dialogue to virtual...
Rapport
Jan 19, 2022
Technology + Trends
Is the Metaverse Leading Tech or Just Far-Fetched? You Answered.
With recent announcements from Meta, Microsoft, Alibaba, and more, the metaverse is dominating the tech news cycle. We wanted to take the time to ask...
Rapport
Dec 1, 2021
Company News
Veteran Technical Art Director Joins the Team: Welcome Zhi!
In early October we welcomed video game industry veteran, Zhi Chen, to the Rapport team.
Rapport
Nov 17, 2021
Learn + Explore
Which digital character is right for your business?
You’re in luck! Rapport facial animation technology works with any character.
Rapport
Oct 20, 2021
Technology + Trends
Interspeech 2021: Laughter is no laughing matter
We had a blast at this year's Interspeech conference presenting our research on non-verbal vocalization, and hearing about all the innovative work...
Dimitri Palaz
Sep 19, 2021
Company News
Looking Back on Summer 2021 Internships with Nathaniel Dziura
This summer we had the pleasure of having Nathaniel “Nat” Dziura join our team for a summer internship. Working alongside Georgia Clarke, Lead Data...
Rapport
Sep 15, 2021
Company News
Embodied AI Panel for SXSW 2022 + Agora RTE 2021
As summer winds down, the Rapport Team is gearing up for upcoming conferences and events. From pitching SXSW 2022 to keynoting at the largest...
Rapport
Aug 17, 2021
Company News
Announcing Our Rapport and Pandorabots Partnership: How We're Enabling Embodied AIs
We’ve partnered with Pandorabots as our first business integration to bring you Rapport’s real time avatar animation technology to the chatbot...
Rapport
Aug 5, 2021
Company News
Welcoming Fiona Proudler as an Advisor to Rapport
We’ve recently added to our Advisory Board again, and are beyond excited to welcome Fiona Proudler to the team.
Rapport
Jul 20, 2021
Company News
Annual Investment Pitch Event First to Integrate Rapport Web Viewer
Several weeks ago we shared news about our homepage demo launch in an email that caught the eye of Danny Helson, Entrepreneurship Programme Manager...
Rapport
Jul 6, 2021
Company News
Rapport to Open New Office Location in Budapest
We’ll soon be saying, “Sziasztok!” to a new office location in the heart of Budapest, and we couldn’t be more thrilled! As we continue to see rapid...
Rapport
Jun 22, 2021
Company News
Meet Our New Machine Learning Interns: Carol and Jinhong
We are excited to welcome Carol and Jinhong to the Machine Learning team at Rapport.
Rapport
Jun 9, 2021
Learn + Explore
7 Ways to Elevate Your Customer Communications
One of the most important factors in a relationship is communication. Personal and professional relationships with seamless communication have an...
Rapport
May 25, 2021
Company News
Working Remotely at Rapport and Why We’re Going ‘Choice First’
Last year was challenging. Ok, it was more than challenging, but for a lot of companies used to working in person, it was a huge adjustment.
Holly Condeco
Apr 28, 2021
Company News
Welcoming Jeremy Bailenson to Rapport’s Advisory Board
We’re incredibly thrilled to welcome Jeremy Bailenson to the team as an advisor. Jeremy is the founding Director of Stanford University’s Virtual...
Rapport
Mar 30, 2021
Learn + Explore
Running Remote: 7 Remote Working Insights to Consider
I attended the Running Remote online conference, one of the world’s largest remote work events, which in the current context, was more needed than...
Rapport
Dec 15, 2020
Technology + Trends
Interspeech 2020: The Papers Our Team Found Most Interesting
Below you’ll see our happy team from last year enjoying each other’s company at Interspeech Graz 2019, all blissfully ignorant of the year 2020 was...
Dimitri Palaz
Dec 1, 2020
Technology + Trends
Emotional State Detection: Deep Learning to the Rescue?
Rapport is making human-machine communication more human, but how exactly? As our CEO Gregor Hofer presented recently, using an animated avatar...
Dimitri Palaz
Nov 17, 2020
Company News
The Scent of Innovation is Calling...
1995. Tokyo. The sun was about to come up, at least for those who were aware of its existence. Flickering neon lights struggled to light up a small...
Attila Vass
Nov 3, 2020
Learn + Explore
How to Create Social Presence Online with Avatars
This past week, Rapport’s CEO, Dr. Gregor Hofer delivered a keynote about the importance of building social presence online at Agora’s first virtual...
Rapport
Oct 20, 2020
Learn + Explore
Understanding the Science behind Rapport
With advances in artificial intelligence, humans and machines are entering into a new relationship. We need to communicate with machines the way we...
Michael Berger
Oct 6, 2020
Learn + Explore
The Importance of Building Cognitive and Emotional Trust with your Customers
Customer trust and loyalty are essential in building a successful business. While this might be obvious, learning how to build that trust and its...
Gregor Hofer
Sep 23, 2020
Company News
Introducing Rapport: the Latest Advancement in Human-Machine Communication
Over the past decade our team has constantly innovated to deliver more engaging and complete digital experiences for entertainment giants, including...
Gregor Hofer
Sep 9, 2020
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