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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. One of the more exciting and promising technologies in the ...

One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE. Researchers designed an experiment to test how AAE speakers adapt their speech when ...

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 ...

Higher-education institutions like SUNY Oswego and the University of Southern California are using AI-powered captioning and ...

A new generative AI feature brings voice recognition to tiny devices with a text-to-speech (TTS) synthetic dataset generation capability. It enables developers to generate synthetic speech data with ...

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, ...

Microsoft has announced a major expansion of local AI capabilities on Windows, introducing new on-device AI models, expanded ...