voice recognition
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The ACCC Says Microsoft Can Go Ahead and Buy the Firm That Helped Build Siri
Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, has weighed in on Microsoft’s acquisition of speech recognition/AI company Nuance. Microsoft is set to pay around $21 billion for the company that helped build Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. The ACCC said Microsoft can shell out billions on Nuance because they aren’t competing companies. The ACCC is basing this on…
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Researchers Built An App That Aims To Detect Covid-19 By Listening To Your Coughs
One of the major problems right now with tackling the novel coronavirus is that tests aren’t widely available for everyone. To help fix that, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a free, experimental app that uses artificial intelligence to detect whether a person may or may not have covid-19.
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Your Xbox Is Listening To You, And So Are Microsoft’s Contractors
Microsoft Xbox owners will bummed to learn that humans have been listening to some of their voice commands. Motherboard recently spoke to a number of Microsoft contractors who said they’d been hired by the company to review Xbox and Cortana voice commands to improve the technology. This is the same sort of thing that’s been…
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Google’s Voice Search Is Getting Way, Way Better
Google released its first neural network-powered voice recognition system in 2011 and it’s been slowly improving ever since. But now, it’s announced that the addition of recurrent neural networks will make far faster — and way more accurate.