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. and Puerto Rican adults with cerebral palsy. Those interested can sign up online. Funded by Big Tech companies Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

From left, UI professors Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Laura Mattie, Marie Moore Channell are working on expanding a database being used to train speech-recognition software to include people whose speech is ...

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 ...

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 ...