Like most of us, [Peter] had a bit of extra time on his hands during quarantine and decided to take a look back at speech recognition technology in the 1970s. Quickly, he started thinking to himself, ...

Speech recognition is usually the purview of fairly high-powered computers chugging along at hundreds of Megahertz with megabytes of RAM. Bringing speech recognition to the low-power microcontroller ...

Tech giants are teaming up with researchers at the University of Illinois to improve speech recognition for people with disabilities. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

In a new move, a project is aiming to increase the accuracy further, by targeting people with speech impediments and disabilities. Partnering with Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well ...

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 ...

IBM will release the code of various runtime and tool components to the open-source community to make it easier for developers to add speech-recognition capability to Web applications. The company ...

As part of new efforts toward accessibility, Google announced Project Euphonia at I/O in May: An attempt to make speech recognition capable of understanding people with non-standard speaking voices or ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Voice interfaces are more common than ever, but they’re not equally accessible. For example, if ...

Big Blue is releasing code to the Apache and Eclipse Foundations, but users will need to buy a proprietary speech-recognition system to take advantage of this IBM will release the code of various ...