Curriculum and assessment company Amplify has introduced a custom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to support its instructional products. The system converts spoken language into written text ...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made incredible advances in the past few years, especially for widely spoken languages such as English. Prior to 2020, it was typically assumed that human ...

Rosy Southwell is a postdoc research scientist at CU Boulder who holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London, UK and an MS in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge, UK ...

Recent advances in speech recognition have transformed the way machines interpret human language, fostering innovations that blend traditional algorithmic methods with state‐of‐the‐art deep learning ...

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even ...

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 ...

In today's increasingly interconnected world, language learning has become essential for education, business, and cultural exchange. However, accurately measuring proficiency in language learners is a ...

Those who loathe talking on the phone to automated speech recognition systems may take solace in the fact that scientists are working to make such systems more lifelike and less annoying to use. "From ...