The Board of Regents adopted the Chicago Statement, a free speech policy created by the University of Chicago in 2014. More than 90 institutions have adopted the statement. Protesters gather in front ...

For over 20 years, a collection of recorded phone conversations known as Switchboard has been used to test speech recognition system for accuracy. This is done by tasking either humans or a machine to ...

Speech recognition is a software invention that allows the user to interact with their mobile devices through speech. It is simply an application that enables a machine to single out words or phrases ...

For years researchers have tried to convert brain signals directly to speech, cutting out the muscles we actually use to speak. A new approach out of UCSF puts the jaw back in jawing. Eric Mack has ...

On Wednesday, Google unveiled Translatotron, an in-development speech-to-speech translation system. It’s not the first system to translate speech from one language to another, but Google designed ...

In the battle to apply deep-learning techniques to the real world, one company stands head and shoulders above the competition. Google’s DeepMind subsidiary has used the technique to create machines ...