Machine learning improves human speech recognition
Hearing loss is a rapidly growing area of scientific research as the number of baby boomers dealing with hearing loss continues to increase as they age.
Mar 01, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New memcapacitor devices for neuromorphic computing applications
To train and implement artificial neural networks, engineers require advanced devices capable of performing data-intensive computations. In recent years, research teams worldwide have been trying to create such devices, using ...
Oct 27, 2021 feature
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The race to save indigenous languages using automatic speech recognition
Michael Running Wolf still has that old TI-89 graphing calculator he used in high school that helped propel his interest in technology.
Oct 11, 2021
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Researchers propose high-density surface electromyography technique for automatic speech recognition
Verbal communication is an important way to engage in social interactions. The normal speaking process requires coordinated contractions of a mass of articulatory muscles on the face and neck.
Feb 27, 2020
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Robotics
An interactive drone to assist humans in office environments
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have recently developed an interactive drone designed to assist humans in indoor environments such offices or laboratories. In a paper prepublished on arXiv, the ...
Dec 20, 2019 feature
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Google releases Android 10: The top 8 ways your phone will improve
Android 10 is now available, but you'll need a Google Pixel smartphone to install the latest version of Google's mobile operating system. At least for now. The update is promised for other Android phones over the next several ...
Sep 06, 2019
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Only few hundred training samples bring human-sounding speech in Microsoft TTS feat
Microsoft Research Asia has been drawing applause for pulling off text to speech requiring little training—and showing "incredibly" realistic results.
May 29, 2019 weblog
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A new approach for low-resource machine transliteration using RNNs
A team of researchers at Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh (VNU-HCM) have recently developed an approach for machine transliteration based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Transliteration ...
Feb 06, 2019 feature
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Machine learning & AI
Emotion recognition based on paralinguistic information
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have recently explored the use of machine learning for emotion recognition based solely on paralinguistic information. Paralinguistics are aspects of spoken communication ...
Dec 11, 2018 feature
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Consumer & Gadgets
How Google's Pixel Buds earphones translate languages
In the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams's seminal 1978 BBC broadcast (then book, feature film and now cultural icon), one of the many technology predictions was the Babel Fish. This tiny yellow life-form, inserted ...
Nov 15, 2017
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