Machine learning & AI
Engineers from UNSW Sydney are leading a drive to sample the voices of Australian kids so that they can be better understood by devices that use voice recognition software.
Oct 2, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation
With over 60 million American adults owning a smart speaker, human-to-machine conversation have largely become a part of a daily ritual. Though these exchanges are seemingly simple to the user, the complex technology that ...
Mar 17, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Ultrasonic waves don't make a sound, but they can still activate Siri on your cellphone and have it make calls, take images or read the contents of a text to a stranger. All without the phone owner's knowledge.
Feb 27, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
What's cooking at the Consumer Electronics Show? AI meal planning, a robot to chop your onions and vegan pork.
Jan 10, 2020
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Computer Sciences
An attack against speech recognition systems with manipulated audio files used to work only via a data interface. Now, all it takes is playing the secret messages via loudspeakers.
Oct 23, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps in Myanmar is about to get a lot easier when it finally adopts the universal code underpinning phone and online communication next week.
Sep 27, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
McDonald's on Tuesday announced plans to acquire a voice technology company to help speed up ordering at the drive thru, the latest in a series of high-tech investments by the fast-food chain as it strives to improve wait ...
Sep 11, 2019
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Software
This may sound like a mouthful but it really means much. Mozilla is talking about the "largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset." Translation: Over 14,000 people. In 18 languages. Of almost 1,400 hours (1,368 ...
Security
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have developed a new method for two-factor authentication via wearables using speech signals.
Aug 24, 2018
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Different strokes for different folks? An Apple patent idea newly made public could mean Siri would deliver personalized responses depending on who is speaking to it. The patent "User profiling for voice input processing" ...
