Frederick Jelinek, 77, a brilliant and determined engineer who overcame the challenges of a boyhood in Nazi-occupied Europe to come to the United States and teach computers how to recognize the sounds ...

Talking to your Windows PC instead of typing can substantially boost your productivity — if you know the right way to do it. It’s already built into your Windows PC. All you have to do is acquire one ...

Speech recognition is a software invention that allows the user to interact with their mobile devices through speech. It is simply an application that enables a machine to single out words or phrases ...

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 ...

The value and importance of police reports cannot be understated. From traffic and collision reports to those documenting theft, injuries and arrests, police reports are not only highly scrutinized by ...

Q. Is there any way to improve the voice-recognition capability of my Windows 10 computer? A. I’m not sure this is actually true, but a friend told me his neighbor ...

Just like you would ask Google Assistant or Siri to accomplish tasks on your phone, you can also talk to your Windows PC to get things done hands-free. While you can use basic commands to perform ...

Neuroscientists were able to prove that speech recognition in humans begins in the sensory pathways from the ear to the cerebral cortex and not, as previously assumed, exclusively in the cerebral ...

Speech recognition technology is finally working for kids. That wasn’t the case back in 1999, when my colleagues at Scholastic Education and I launched a reading intervention program called READ 180.

Emergency responders at the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) could react more quickly to people in need when a speech recognition system that automatically transcribes information from distress ...