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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Four teams will share a grand prize of $110,000 for their work on the speech recognition challenge Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments, or ASpIRE. The winning teams are from Johns ...