Speech recognition, or speech-to-text, is the ability of a machine or program to identify words spoken aloud and convert them into readable text. Rudimentary speech recognition software has a limited ...

Voice or speaker recognition is the ability of a machine or program to receive and interpret dictation or to understand and perform spoken commands. Voice recognition has gained prominence and use ...

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 ...

Postdoctorate Viet Anh Trinh led a project within Strand 1 to develop a novel neural network architecture that can both recognize and generate speech. He has since moved on from iSAT to a role at ...

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 ...