Google teams up with Howard University to improve digital speech recognition

Google teams up with Howard University to improve digital speech recognition

Every time you say something to Alexa or Siri, or use voice to text to send a text message, you’re using artificial intelligence. While those programs can be pretty accurate, there’s plenty of times when it’s not, especially if you’re Black. Howard University and Google are teaming up to change that through a partnership called “Project Elevate Black Voices.” “We ultimately collected 600 hours of African American English from across the United S…

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Source: Liubomyr Vorona / Getty In a significant move toward advancing inclusivity in technology, Howard University and Google Research have unveiled a new dataset designed to enhance how automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems serve Black users. The collaboration, part of Project Elevate Black Voices, involved researchers traveling nationwide to document the unique dialects, accents, and speech patterns commonly found in Black communities, f…

Howard University: Howard University and Google Research Enhance A.I. Speech Recognition of African American English | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Howard University: Howard University and Google Research Enhance A.I. Speech Recognition of African American English. “Researchers collected 600 hours of data from users of different [African American English] dialects in an effort to address implicit barriers to improving [automatic speech recognition] performance. Thirty-two states are represented in the dataset.”The post Howard University: Howard University and Google Research Enhance A.I. Sp…