The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign making voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, along with several nonprofit organizations, support the project.
The Speech Accessibility Project collects speech samples from individuals representing a diversity of speech patterns. U. of I. researchers recruit paid volunteers to contribute recorded voice samples to a private, de-identified dataset. It's used to train machine learning models to better understand a wide variety of speech patterns.
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