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 ...

The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults with cerebral palsy. Those interested can sign up online. Funded by Big Tech companies Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and ...

(TNS) — Speech-recognition software doesn't work very well for people who could really use it, like those with Parkinson's or Down syndrome. Researchers at the University of Illinois have a simple ...

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 ...

From left, UI professors Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Laura Mattie, Marie Moore Channell are working on expanding a database being used to train speech-recognition software to include people whose speech is ...

The Speech Accessibility Project has expanded its recruitment and is inviting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to participate. Those interested in participating ...

Every time you say something to Alexa or Siri, or use voice to text to send a text message, you’re using artificial intelligence. While those programs can be pretty accurate, there’s plenty of times ...

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 ...

Canary Speech, maker of AI-enabled speech analysis software, announced it is partnering with nonprofit organization Veteran Business Project to provide veteran entrepreneurs with tools to manage their ...

Research in speech technology started at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1936 and is still going strong. Today, however, other companies have taken the lead. IBM’s Superhuman Speech Recognition Project aims ...