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Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Google teamed up to enhance voice recognition for impaired people

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On the Speech Accessibility Project, the University of Illinois collaborated with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other NGOs. The goal is to enhance voice recognition for disabled groups. This includes those with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and other speech-related disorders. The Speech Accessibility Project will collect samples from people with a wide range of speech patterns. The UIUC will seek compensated volunteers to give voice samples and contribute to the creation of a private, de-identified dataset that can be used to train machine learning models. The Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease and Team Gleason for ALS have both offered their support for the initiative.

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