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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rosy Southwell is a postdoc research scientist at CU Boulder who holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London, UK and an MS in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge, UK ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the progress in technology and exploitation of automatic speech recognition, technological barriers to flexible solutions and user satisfaction still exist under certain circumstances. These ...

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2024 – Interactions with voice technology, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant, can make life easier by increasing efficiency and productivity. However, ...