Apple just paid $2 billion for Q.ai, a company with tech that could dramatically enhance the Siri voice assistant.

Siri’s speech-recognition capabilities can happen on-device beginning with iOS 15. The update will make Siri considerably faster and, in some cases, allow it to function without a WiFi or data ...

The University of Illinois (UIUC) is working with Apple and other tech giants on the Speech Accessibility Project, which aims to improve voice recognition systems for people with speech patterns and ...

The new Speech Accessibility Project brings together five technology companies to bring voice recognition to those with non-standard speech patterns. Rather than work separately, all five companies ...

Last year Apple reportedly acquired speech recognition company Novauris Technologies, a spinoff of Dragon Systems. Apple has also hired several speech recognition experts trained in a type of ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is partnering with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and nonprofit partners in the Speech Accessibility Project. The project's aim is to ...

Apple’s Q.ai acquisition could enable iPhones to interpret whispered or silent speech using facial micromovement and advanced AI sensing.

Apple is a main sponsor for the 24th Interspeech Conference, dedicated to spoken language computing, and will present proposals for activating Siri without a spoken command, plus better recognition ...

Apple bought audio AI startup Q.ai to enhance Siri and voice features to broaden investment in AI and natural language ...