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 ...

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 almost halfway through its first phase of gathering voice recordings from people with Parkinson’s Urbana, Illinois — The Speech Accessibility Project is almost ...

Tech heavyweights Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have come together in a way that would make Voltron blush. The companies are embarking on a joint effort to make voice-first user ...

While speech technology for Indian languages has moved beyond the infancy stage, it still trails English and struggles with ...

Project Vaani, led by IISc Bengaluru, is building India's first dataset for atypical speech in three languages, aiming to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Justitia, an independent and nonpartisan think tank based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has opened its first office in the U.S. at Vanderbilt University. The office at ...