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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company ...

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 ...