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 ...

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 ...

Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company ...

You’ve probably experienced the frustration of being misheard or misunderstood by a smart speaker or AI assistant. For people with non-standard speech, it can happen in nearly every interaction with ...

Choosing a transcription service requires many considerations. In today's fast-paced world, speed is vital, as well as accuracy. You want to spend as little time as possible correcting the errors in ...

Children’s speech presents unique challenges for ASR systems. Their smaller, growing vocal tracts lead to greater acoustic variability. On top of that, kids are still learning how to speak, making ...

If you ever need to transcribe audio or video to text, most current apps are powered by OpenAI’s Whisper model. You’re probably using this model if you use apps like MacWhisper to transcribe meetings ...

Microsoft is sunsetting Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) and replacing it with Voice Access. The change has been on the cards since last year, but the company has now indicated the timeline. Microsoft ...

Speech-to-text technology is becoming something we use daily, be it in texting functionality or visual voicemail on our cell phones, smart home devices, closed captioning on news channels, ...