Articles about Speech Recognition

How Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is changing its tone during the pandemic

Alexa, do I need a coronavirus test? That’s a query that almost certainly was not in the repertoire for Amazon’s… Read More

Nuance buys Voicebox Technologies, scooping up speech-recognition and natural-language pioneer

Nuance Communications has quietly acquired Voicebox Technologies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that was an early leader in speech recognition and natural… Read More

Google Cloud makes text-to-speech capabilities in apps like Google Maps available on Google Cloud Platform

Google continues to focus on ways it can use its artificial intelligence research to court cloud customers, announcing Tuesday that… Read More

Microsoft claims AI program just as good as human pros in Chinese to English translation

Microsoft says it has built the first machine that can translate parts of news stories from Chinese to English as… Read More

Facebook wants to build a system to allow people to speak with their brains and hear through their skin

Facebook has thrown out its share of moonshots over the years, but this one puts the rest to shame. The… Read More

Microsoft technology can now recognize speech as well as humans can

In what it calls a “major breakthrough in speech recognition,” Microsoft has built technology that can decipher conversation as well as… Read More

Microsoft’s new “emotion-sensing platform” can recognize human feelings by analyzing photos

Microsoft just revealed a new tool that’s capable of analyzing photos to identify human emotions. For example, imagine sitting in a… Read More

Nuance sale talks put valuable speech-recognition patent portfolio up for grabs

Nuance Communications, a company with deep expertise in speech-recognition industry, may be up for sale. The Burlington, Mass.-based company has been in talks… Read More

Amazon warms up its voice as smartphone launch nears, with help from past deals

Now that Amazon has rolled out two back-to-back hardware products with voice recognition software, we can expect more as the… Read More

A Siri for advertising: These mobile ads talk back to you

Publishers are struggling to make money on mobile, a challenging scenario given that more folks are now consuming news and… Read More