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 ...

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 ...

Sitting in his office overlooking downtown Bellevue, Washington, Microsoft’s Fil Alleva is talking about the long and sometimes difficult road he and other speech recognition experts have taken from ...

Before the pandemic, more than 40% of new internet users were children. Estimates now suggest that children’s screen time has surged by 60% or more with children 12 and under spending upward of five ...

What happens here matters everywhere. by Taylor Soper on May 18, 2018 at 10:54 am May 19, 2018 at 12:21 am Voicebox CEO Mike Kennewick. Nuance Communications has quietly acquired Voicebox Technologies ...

“Clow-dia,” I say once. Twice. A third time. Defeated, I say the Americanized version of my name: “Claw-dee-ah.” Finally, Siri recognizes it. Having to adapt our way of speaking to interact with ...

Speech recognition is an important cog in Big Tech's AI machinery. The tech powers the digital assistants on our phones, in cars and in the smart speakers in our homes. But, despite its ubiquity, ...