Those who loathe talking on the phone to automated speech recognition systems may take solace in the fact that scientists are working to make such systems more lifelike and less annoying to use. “From ...

Even state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) algorithms struggle to recognize the accents of people from certain regions of the world. That’s the top-line finding of a new study published ...

From the voice-to-text feature on your phone to the captions that make videos more accessible, speech transcription is already woven into everyday life. Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence is ...

IBM and Honda this week announced that they have jointly developed a hands-free and natural-sounding in-vehicle speech-recognition system. Honda will offer the system as standard equipment on the 2005 ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The human brain effortlessly converts spoken words into meaning, requiring minimal energy while achieving remarkable accuracy. Replicating this feat in artificial systems has ...

One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE. Researchers designed an experiment to test how AAE speakers adapt their speech when ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today announced it will give customers finer-grain control over ...

Alibaba unveils a new speech recognition model covering 11 languages, noise-robust transcription, and even singing voice ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is partnering with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and nonprofit partners in the Speech Accessibility Project. The project's aim is to ...

Air traffic control (ATC) systems are increasingly leveraging sophisticated speech recognition technologies to enhance communication between controllers and pilots, thereby improving operational ...

In a recent white paper, former Scholastic president of education Margery Mayer dubbed 2021 the “year of speech recognition” in education. And she may be right: A spike in adoption by edtech ...