Google Now, search giant Google’s eponymous voice assistant, has a surprisingly good grasp on the nuances of human speech. Thanks to a killer combination of machine learning and crowdsourced data, it ...

Voice recognition technology promises to make our lives easier, letting us control everything from our phones to cars to home appliances. Just talk to our tech, and it works. As the tech becomes more ...

Google on Tuesday announced new and enhanced contact center tools, with improvements to the underlying speech recognition technology. The improvements, which are the most significant since Google ...

Since 2017, Google Cloud has offered a Speech-to-Text (STT) API that third-parties can take advantage of in their own services. The newest models for Google speech recognition improve accuracy due to ...

In March of 2021, Google started using federated learning on Android to improve “Hey Google” hotword accuracy. An upcoming “Personalized speech recognition” feature now looks to help Google Assistant ...

If you're one of the few people who own a Google Pixel phone, you'll soon be able to experience voice recognition without the internet. Google has announced the rollout of "an end-to-end, all-neural, ...

What if the key to improving speech recognition accuracy is simply mixing all available speech datasets together to train one large AI model? That’s the hypothesis behind a recent study published by a ...

Google is looking for help developing an Android app aimed at providing more communication options for people with speech impairments. Project Relate, as the effort and app is now called, will provide ...

Voice recognition is a standard part of the smartphone package these days, and a corresponding part is the delay while you wait for Siri, Alexa or Google to return your query, either correctly ...

Whether you use Google Home to play games, to listen to tunes, or to connect to your smart devices, having good sound quality and voice recognition on your speaker is a must. When you can hear every ...

You can now dictate your texts with Google's Gboard keyboard even when you're offline, at least if you use a Pixel. Google's AI team announced that it updated the Gboard's speech recognizer to ...

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