Q. I have used Microsoft Word’s speech recognition tool for years, and I’ve been very pleased with how well it works. However, I’ve recently upgraded to a new ...

Computers can do some amazing things lately, with things like parallel processing, machine intelligence, and more powerful hardware allowing extraordinary advancements on what seems like a daily basis ...

Microsoft claims to have achieved the world's lowest error rate for speech recognition, as the company jostles with Amazon, Apple, Google, and IBM to develop products ...

Emotion in voices helps capture the listener's attention, but in the long run the words are not remembered as accurately. Does the emotion in our voice have a lasting effect? According to new research ...

Looking back on the development of speech recognition technology is like watching a child grow up, progressing from the baby-talk level of recognizing single syllables, to building a vocabulary of ...

“Clow-dia,” I say once. Twice. A third time. Defeated, I say the Americanized version of my name: “Claw-dee-ah.” Finally, Siri recognizes it. Having to adapt our way of speaking to interact with ...

Keith E. Stanovich, Ruth G. Nathan, Richard F. West and Marilyn Vala-Rossi Both third-grade children (mean age 9-6) and fifth-grade children (mean age 11-6) performed like adults in that they named a ...

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