The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. The project is housed ...

You’ve probably experienced the frustration of being misheard or misunderstood by a smart speaker or AI assistant. For people with non-standard speech, it can happen in nearly every interaction with ...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made incredible advances in the past few years, especially for widely spoken languages such as English. Prior to 2020, it was typically assumed that human ...

The University of Illinois (UIUC) has partnered with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and nonprofits on the Speech Accessibility Project. The aim is to improve voice recognition for communities ...

New algorithm makes speech recognition possible anywhere, and when security is paramount, because it works without internet connection. Photo by Quentin fede, CC BY-SA 4.0 More than one in four people ...

Universal 2 represents a major advancement in AI speech-to-text technology, offering unmatched accuracy and flexibility across a broad array of audio processing tasks. Trained on an extensive dataset ...

Google is looking for help developing an Android app aimed at providing more communication options for people with speech impairments. Project Relate, as the effort and app is now called, will provide ...

Artificial intelligence startup aiOla says it’s ready to take on giants such as OpenAI Group PBC and Alibaba Holdings Ltd. in the field of speech recognition with a new voice AI model based on ...