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·September 27, 2024·8 min read

Improving Voice Recognition for People with Speech Disabilities

A new study shows that automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems trained on speech from people with Parkinson’s disease are 30% more accurate in transcribing similar speech patterns. Researchers collected over 151 hours of recordings from participants with varying degrees of dysarthria, a speech disorder common in Parkinson’s patients, and used the data to train ASR systems.

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·December 12, 2023·4 min read

Innovative Brain Cell Chips Unlock New Horizons in Speech Recognition

In a revolutionary study, researchers created a hybrid system called Brainoware, which integrates human brain cell networks, or organoids, with a computer chip. This innovative setup demonstrates capabilities in processing, learning, and memory, and has achieved basic speech recognition skills by decoding audio clips of Japanese vowels.

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·August 28, 2019·3 min read

New findings on human speech recognition

Increased activity of the ventromedial geniculate body indicates the processing of auditory information begins before the auditory pathways reach the cerebral cortex.

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·June 6, 2019·3 min read

Fussy, hungry, or even in pain? Scientists create an AI tool to tell babies’ cries apart

A new deep learning algorithm, based on automatic speech recognition, is able to accurately identify features in an infant's cry and differentiate between normal versus abnormal cry signals.

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·May 15, 2019·5 min read

Coherent? Voice disorders significantly affect listeners, too

Researchers investigate new strategies to help listeners better understand those with voice disorders.

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·December 11, 2017·6 min read

Reading a Neural Network’s “Mind”

MIT researchers investigate the inner workings of machine learning systems that process language.

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·October 10, 2017·4 min read

Our Ability to Focus on One Voice in Crowds Is Triggered by Voice Pitch

Imperial College London researchers have identified a group of neurons implicated in selective attention.

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·December 2, 2016·6 min read

Computer Learns to Recognize Sounds By Watching Video

New system does not require costly hand-annotated data during training.

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·October 25, 2016·3 min read

Can A Brain Computer Interface Convert Your Thoughts to Text?

Brain-to-text system could help people with speech difficulties to communicate, researchers report.

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·December 2, 2015·4 min read

Can You Tell if Your Therapist Has Empathy?

Researchers have developed new software that is able to detect a person's ability to understand and share feelings in therapy sessions.