Speech recognition technology is widely used in smartphones;users can talk to intelligent personal assistants like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana. This technology is also emerging in the ...

Microsoft's Azure AI Speech platform achieved “significant improvements” in recognizing non-standard English speech thanks to recordings and transcripts from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest project, he was pleasantly surprised to uncover a recipe for Eggs Florentine. Sifting through hundreds of hours of recorded speech will ...

The healthcare industry is grappling with the challenge of balancing patient care with administrative duties, such as documenting crucial patient information and composing referral letters, all of ...

Howard University and Google Research recently released data which can be used by artificial intelligence developers to improve the experience of Black people using automatic speech recognition (ASR) ...

Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder resulting from impaired neuromuscular control of the articulatory system, poses significant challenges for both communication and clinical assessment. Recent ...

IBM’s speech recognition system now boasts a 5.5 percent error rate. This milestone is an industry record for conversational speech recognition, according to IBM ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11 Voice Access is a major update to Microsoft's accessibility tools, allowing users to control their desktop entirely with voice commands — no hands or Internet connection required. The ...

In clinical settings, accurately understanding patients' emotions and responding appropriately plays a critical role in ...