Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages ...

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, ...

The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting U.S. adults with Down syndrome; The project aims to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with diverse speech patterns and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...

Authored by embedded ML specialists with extensive experience in ESP32 voice recognition architecture, TinyML optimisation, ...

For too long, people with speech impairments have struggled to be understood not only by other people, but also by voice-based technology. Though some companies have started to make their products ...

Only a fraction of the 7,000 to 8,000 languages spoken around the world benefit from modern language technologies like voice-to-text transcription, automatic captioning, instantaneous translation 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 ...

Google is looking for help developing an Android app aimed at providing more communication options for people with speech impairments. Project Relate, as the effort and app is now called, will provide ...

One grant will facilitate the adoption of underrepresented languages in new technologies; the other will train students in research methods related to conducting field work in those languages.