Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Google to Improve Speech Recognition for People with Disabilities

Engadget -- “Speech interfaces should be available to everybody, and that includes people with disabilities," said Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, ECE professor and Illinois CS affiliate faculty member. "This task has been difficult because it requires a lot of infrastructure, ideally the kind that can be supported by leading technology companies, so we’ve created a uniquely interdisciplinary team with expertise in linguistics, speech, AI, security and privacy."

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