Speech recognition has gone from convenient to crucial over the last few years as smart speakers and driving assist modes have taken off — but not everyone’s voice is recognized equally well.

China’s leading Internet-search company, Baidu, has developed a voice system that can recognize English and Mandarin speech better than people, in some cases. The new system, called Deep Speech 2, is ...

Postdoctorate Viet Anh Trinh led a project within Strand 1 to develop a novel neural network architecture that can both recognize and generate speech. He has since moved on from iSAT to a role at ...

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have profoundly transformed the field of speech recognition and language processing. Contemporary methods now harness deep neural networks and sophisticated ...

The new system, called Deep Speech 2, is especially significant in how it relies entirely on machine learning for translation. Whereas older voice-recognition systems include many handcrafted ...

If you would like to learn more about the open-sourced a neural net known as Whisper, created and released as open source by OpenAI. This automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is designed to offer ...

What if the race to perfect AI speech recognition wasn’t just about accuracy but also speed and usability? In a world where audio-to-text transcription powers everything from virtual meetings to ...

ELSA, the English-language learning app known for its speech recognition technology, is launching a new product called Speech Analyzer. The assessment platform plugs into communication tools like Zoom ...

A speech recognition startup just landed $62 million in Series B funding. How will the money be used? In a quest to enable a computer to understand every voice in the world. Speech recognition, then, ...

On Wednesday, OpenAI released a new open source AI model called Whisper that recognizes and translates audio at a level that approaches human recognition ability. It can transcribe interviews, ...