The Board of Regents adopted the Chicago Statement, a free speech policy created by the University of Chicago in 2014. More than 90 institutions have adopted the statement. Protesters gather in front ...

For over 20 years, a collection of recorded phone conversations known as Switchboard has been used to test speech recognition system for accuracy. This is done by tasking either humans or a machine to ...

Speech recognition is a software invention that allows the user to interact with their mobile devices through speech. It is simply an application that enables a machine to single out words or phrases ...

For years researchers have tried to convert brain signals directly to speech, cutting out the muscles we actually use to speak. A new approach out of UCSF puts the jaw back in jawing. Eric Mack has ...

On Wednesday, Google unveiled Translatotron, an in-development speech-to-speech translation system. It’s not the first system to translate speech from one language to another, but Google designed ...

In the battle to apply deep-learning techniques to the real world, one company stands head and shoulders above the competition. Google’s DeepMind subsidiary has used the technique to create machines ...

Emergency responders at the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) could react more quickly to people in need when a speech recognition system that automatically transcribes information from distress ...