A study published last Monday, heralded as an historic achievement by Microsoft, details a new speech recognition technology that’s able to transcribe conversational speech as well as humans — or at ...

One by one, the skills that separate us from machines are falling into the machines’ column. First there was chess, then Jeopardy!, then Go, then object recognition, face recognition, and video gaming ...

Sitting in his office overlooking downtown Bellevue, Washington, Microsoft’s Fil Alleva is talking about the long and sometimes difficult road he and other speech recognition experts have taken from ...

A tiny ball of brain cells hums with activity as it sits atop an array of electrodes. For two days, it receives a pattern of electrical zaps, each stimulation encoding the speech peculiarities of ...

Speech recognition is a software invention that allows the user to interact with their mobile devices through speech. It is simply an application that enables a machine to single out words or phrases ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...