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 new Speech Accessibility Project brings together five technology companies to bring voice recognition to those with non-standard speech patterns. Rather than work separately, all five companies ...

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 ...

The Speech Accessibility Project has begun recruiting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults who have had a stroke. Those interested can sign up online. Funded by Big Tech companies Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today said it has open-sourced a new project called Massively Multilingual Speech, which aims to overcome the challenges of creating ...