(CNN) — You’ve probably experienced the frustration of being misheard or misunderstood by a smart speaker or AI assistant. For people with non-standard speech, it can happen in nearly every ...

Having a phone conversation with an AI-powered robot is a common and frustrating experience — particularly for people who stutter or have other diverse patterns of speech. To address the poor ...

The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. The project is housed ...

In today’s digital world, audio content has become a crucial element of communication, learning, and entertainment. Podcasts, video narrations, online courses, and voice assistants all rely on voice ...

Universal 2 represents a major advancement in AI speech-to-text technology, offering unmatched accuracy and flexibility across a broad array of audio processing tasks. Trained on an extensive dataset ...

The University of Washington’s Allen School is tackling six “grand challenges” in computer science — from AI and education to health and sustainability. At its annual research showcase, students and ...

The dream of a universal AI interpreter just got a bit closer. This week, tech giant Meta released a new AI that can almost instantaneously translate speech in 101 languages as soon as the words ...

• Billions of people around the world regularly communicate online in languages other than their own. • This has created huge demand for artificial intelligence (AI) models that can translate both ...

Meta is launching a new program in partnership with UNESCO to collect speech recordings and transcriptions the company said will help the development of future openly available AI. The program, the ...

Listening to people with Parkinson's disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30-percent more accurate, according to a new study. As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest ...