Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition

A diagram combines a 3D brain connectome with text and geometric shapes, with arrows pointing to areas labeled "The child bent down to smell the rose." A list and graph are shown on the left, illustrating how words in the brain are processed.
The findings show that even small areas in the brain may have the potential to represent complex meanings.
a man sitting in a wheel chair next to a laptop.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
A robot is making a rock hand gesture with the word hola.
People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
An image of a person's ear and brain.
It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
An image of a man and a woman with the words carrer R
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
AML100 chip
Analog could serve as "always-on" computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.
An elderly woman sitting on a chair and talking on the phone.
Interventions can make the most difference when Alzheimer’s is detected early.
A woman in a wheelchair looking at a computer screen.
The brain implant lets her talk four times faster than the previous record.
A yellow brain drawing on a blue background, emphasizing speech.
The structure is fully developed in humans, partially developed in chimps, and completely absent in Old World monkeys.
A digital art image of a human made of small white blocks.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
a human talking to a digital avatar
The danger posed by conversational AI isn't that it can say weird or dark things; it's personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.