Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The human brain effortlessly converts spoken words into meaning, requiring minimal energy while achieving remarkable accuracy. Replicating this feat in artificial systems has ...

For decades, human-machine interaction has relied heavily on screens, keyboards and graphical interfaces. However, as artificial intelligence continues to rapidly evolve into context-aware, ...

Robots do not treat all humans equally. This summer, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver and our very own Jorge Ramos both kvetched about how computers often don’t understand them. It’s not because ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM’s speech recognition system now boasts a 5.5 percent error rate. This milestone is an industry record for conversational speech recognition, according to IBM ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Report with market evolution powered by AI - The global voice speech recognition software market size is estimated to grow by USD 20.07 billion from 2024-2028, ...

What’s your experience of in-car voice recognition technology? If it’s anything like ours you probably find these systems incredibly frustrating because the interactions happen too slowly and the car ...

Voice-recognition tools are having an impact in three major areas: call centers, voice-enabled devices and desktop dictation-and-command software We've all seen one of the downsides of recent advances ...