The University of Illinois (UIUC) is working with Apple and other tech giants on the Speech Accessibility Project, which aims to improve voice recognition systems for people with speech patterns and ...

Last year Apple reportedly acquired speech recognition company Novauris Technologies, a spinoff of Dragon Systems. Apple has also hired several speech recognition experts trained in a type of ...

Siri’s speech-recognition capabilities can happen on-device beginning with iOS 15. The update will make Siri considerably faster and, in some cases, allow it to function without a WiFi or data ...

The new Speech Accessibility Project brings together five technology companies to bring voice recognition to those with non-standard speech patterns. Rather than work separately, all five companies ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is partnering with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and nonprofit partners in the Speech Accessibility Project. The project's aim is to ...

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Microsoft has acquired speech recognition systems company Nuance in an all-cash deal valued at $19.7 billion, giving it control over the firm that helped Apple process Siri queries. Following initial ...

A customer holds the new Apple iPhone 16 Pro in her hand inside the Omotesando Apple store in Japan. Apple said it is working on fixing a bug in its dictation feature after a viral TikTok post showed ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwan university has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple Inc in a U.S. court over the iPhone maker's Siri speech recognition system, which lets users place calls or ...