Postdoctorate Viet Anh Trinh led a project within Strand 1 to develop a novel neural network architecture that can both recognize and generate speech. He has since moved on from iSAT to a role at ...

Only a fraction of the 7,000 to 8,000 languages spoken around the world benefit from modern language technologies like voice-to-text transcription, automatic captioning, instantaneous translation and ...

Meta has created an AI language model that (in a refreshing change of pace) isn’t a ChatGPT clone. The company’s Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project can recognize over 4,000 spoken languages ...

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 ...

“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 ...

You can talk to Windows using the built-in speech recognition or text dictation features. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the mysteries of personal tech. He loves watching old ...

Looking back on the development of speech recognition technology is like watching a child grow up, progressing from the baby-talk level of recognizing single syllables, to building a vocabulary of ...

Nuance Communications has quietly acquired Voicebox Technologies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that was an early leader in speech recognition and natural language technologies, GeekWire has learned ...