Speech recognition technology is finally working for kids. That wasn’t the case back in 1999, when my colleagues at Scholastic Education and I launched a reading intervention program called READ 180.

Before the pandemic, more than 40% of new internet users were children. Estimates now suggest that children’s screen time has surged by 60% or more with children 12 and under spending upward of five ...

What if the key to improving speech recognition accuracy is simply mixing all available speech datasets together to train one large AI model? That’s the hypothesis behind a recent study published by a ...

“Clow-dia,” I say once. Twice. A third time. Defeated, I say the Americanized version of my name: “Claw-dee-ah.” Finally, Siri recognizes it. Having to adapt our way of speaking to interact with ...

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 ...

A speech recognition startup just landed $62 million in Series B funding. How will the money be used? In a quest to enable a computer to understand every voice in the world. Speech recognition, then, ...

Earlier this week, I had an opportunity to interview Klemen Simonic, the Founder and CEO of Soniox, who has built a promising new AI self-learning infrastructure and toolset to build advanced speech ...

Choosing a transcription service requires many considerations. In today's fast-paced world, speed is vital, as well as accuracy. You want to spend as little time as possible correcting the errors in ...

If there’s anyone who should know about how to get the most accurate Mac speech recognition, it’s someone who’s an ex-BBC producer and also quadriplegic – so he’s heavily reliant on dictation. Colin ...

According to a Voices survey, 81% of Americans use voice assistants in their day-to-day life. Along with allowing users to search for information, these solutions also offer companies options to make ...