Frederick Jelinek, 77, a brilliant and determined engineer who overcame the challenges of a boyhood in Nazi-occupied Europe to come to the United States and teach computers how to recognize the sounds ...

Speech recognition, he says, is now working out of the box for more people, and in a wider range of environments. “But there’s still shouting at cocktail parties,” says Sejnoha, citing one example of ...

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 ...

Q. Is there any way to improve the voice-recognition capability of my Windows 10 computer? A. I’m not sure this is actually true, but a friend told me his neighbor ...

Despite the progress in technology and exploitation of automatic speech recognition, technological barriers to flexible solutions and user satisfaction still exist under certain circumstances. These ...

The value and importance of police reports cannot be understated. From traffic and collision reports to those documenting theft, injuries and arrests, police reports are not only highly scrutinized by ...

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.

Emergency responders at the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) could react more quickly to people in need when a speech recognition system that automatically transcribes information from distress ...

Just like you would ask Google Assistant or Siri to accomplish tasks on your phone, you can also talk to your Windows PC to get things done hands-free. While you can use basic commands to perform ...