Myasthenia gravis (MG) can weaken the muscles used for speech, causing slurred speech, nasal tone, poor breath support, vocal fatigue, and pitch control problems. A speech-language pathologist (SLP) ...

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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 ...

Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company ...

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 ...

Ultra-low power speech recognition systems enable continuous or intermittent voice interfaces on battery-constrained or energy-harvesting devices by operating at micro- to nano-watt levels. Such ...