By Aaron Wagner for Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — New funding from the National Science Foundation’s Build and Broaden Program will enable a team of researchers from Penn State and…
How do humans understand speech?
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The Race to Save Indigenous Languages, Using Automatic Speech Recognition
By Tanner Stening for News@Northeastern Michael Running Wolf still has that old TI-89 graphing calculator he used in high school that helped propel his interest in technology. “Back then, my teachers saw I was…
Physician burnout in healthcare: Quo vadis?
By Ifran Khan for Fast Company Burnout was included as an occupational phenomenon in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) by the World Health Organization in 2019. Today, burnout is prevalent in the forms…
Three Ways AI Is Improving Assistive Technology
Wendy Gonzalez for Forbes Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are some of the buzziest terms in tech and for a good reason. These innovations have the potential to tackle some…
Talking it through: speech recognition takes the strain of digital transformation
By Nuance for Healthcare IT HITN: COVID-19 has further exposed employee stress and burnout as major challenges for healthcare. Tell us how we can stop digital transformation technologies from simply adding to…
VA to move Nuance’s voice-enabled clinical assistant to the cloud: 5 details
By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The Department of Veterans Affairs is migrating to the cloud platform for Nuance’s automated clinical note-taking system, the health system said Sept. 8. Five details: The VA…
There’s Nothing Nuanced About Microsoft’s Plans For Voice Recognition Technology
By Enrique Dans for Forbes Several media have already reported on Microsoft’s advanced talks over an eventual acquisition of Nuance Communications, a leader in the field of voice recognition, with a long and troubled history of mergers and acquisitions….
‘Siri Speech Study’ app to improve Apple speech recognition
By Katya Pivcevic for Bio Metric Update Apple launched a new iOS app this month, ‘Siri Speech Study’, designed to collect speech data and improve the speech recognition capabilities of its virtual…
Leveraging AI-powered speech recognition tech to reduce NHS staff burnout
From Open Access Government The last 18 months have pushed our National Health Service (NHS) to breaking point. Services that were already overstretched and underfunded have been subjected to unprecedented strain on their…
Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Speech Recognition
By The Signal If you have ever wondered how your smartphone can comprehend instructions like “Call Mom,” “Send a Message to Boss,” “Play the Latest Songs,” “Switch ON the AC,” then you…