Millions of people routinely say “hey” to voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, even though the experience can be frustratingly glitchy. On Tuesday, Google previewed new technology that makes speech ...

Google Now, search giant Google’s eponymous voice assistant, has a surprisingly good grasp on the nuances of human speech. Thanks to a killer combination of machine learning and crowdsourced data, it ...

Sensory recently unveiled the VR Stamp module, which provides easy integration of voice recognition into consumer, industrial, automotive, and medical electronics (Picture). Sensory based the module ...

In March of 2021, Google started using federated learning on Android to improve “Hey Google” hotword accuracy. An upcoming “Personalized speech recognition” feature now looks to help Google Assistant ...

Google LLC has developed a miniaturized neural network that is small and efficient enough to perform speech recognition, a normally hardware-intensive task, directly on mobile devices. The technology ...

Since 2017, Google Cloud has offered a Speech-to-Text (STT) API that third-parties can take advantage of in their own services. The newest models for Google speech recognition improve accuracy due to ...

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 ...

Google is looking for help developing an Android app aimed at providing more communication options for people with speech impairments. Project Relate, as the effort and app is now called, will provide ...

Update: Uh oh, Google pulled their video (below) hopefully just a blip :O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYLTiecN-EE and also from its iPhone site. Update 2 ...

Want to schedule an appointment? Just ask your phone. Need to turn on your bedroom lights? Google Home has you covered. Now a $49 billion market, voice-activated systems have gained popularity among ...

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