Recognition screensaver on a PC, in which the character responds to questions, e.g. "Where are you?" or statements, e.g. "Hello. "]] In computer science, speech recognition (SR) is the translation of spoken words into text. It is also known as "automatic speech recognition", "ASR", "computer speech recognition", "speech to text", or just "STT". Some SR systems use "training" where an individual speaker reads sections of text into the SR system.
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Facebook will pay you for your voice recordings, but it's not worth it
Last year, Facebook said it would stop listening to voice notes in messenger to improve its speech recognition technology. Now, the company is starting a new program where it will explicitly ask you to submit your recordings, and earn money in return. According to a report from ...
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Why your business should focus on understanding speech over voice recognition
As the technology quickly evolves, we should capture every call we can. Any company, no matter how small, cannot afford not ...
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CHEAP: Si! Ja! Da! Here's 95% off a lifetime membership to language-learning app Mondly
We all want to learn another language, right? Well, this lifetime membership to the language learning app Mondly could be ...
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How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition
Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri represent their overwhelmingly white, male developers leading to ...
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Babbel's update encourages users to chart their own language course
Babbel, the popular language-learning app, is getting a makeover. Updated language lessons now put the spotlight on bite-sized ...
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How an AI in China helped nab a suspected murderer - with a face scan
We've read plenty of stories of how AI can be horrible, but it can also be surprisingly useful. According to a report by ...
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Why Alexa and Siri won't function as robot helpers
“Alexa, are you ready to have a body?” Steady advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing have ...
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PSA: You can now delete your voice recordings with an Alexa command
Amazon is now rolling out a pair of Alexa voice commands that allows you to delete voice recordings without using its website. ...
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Report: Female-sounding voice assistants fuel gender bias
AI-powered voice assistants from Google, Amazon, Apple, and others could be perpetuating harmful gender biases, according ...
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Google's new AI can help you speak another language in your own voice
Google Translate is one of the company’s most used products. It helps people translate one language to another through typing, ...
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Google squeezed an offline dictation AI into its keyboard app
Google says it's effectively miniaturized a cloud-based neural network system for speech recognition into an 80MB mobile ...
