Speech Recognition

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean Google isn't listening to everything you say

Belgian journos find hundreds of recordings from so-called smart speakers triggered without command

Personal Tech11 Jul 2019 | 151

Robo-callers, robo-cops, robo-runners, robo-car crashes, and more

Roundup Find out more about Google Duplex, the Atlas robot, and what caused Uber's deadly accident

AI + ML12 May 2018 | 24

Holy helmets, Batman! Bane-like mask lets you 'talk' to computers without making a sound

Pic MIT eggheads craft creepy covert speech-to-text interface

Science05 Apr 2018 | 32

Fun fact of the day: Voice recognition tech is naturally sexist

Machine learning and AI could make the problem worse

AI + ML14 Mar 2018 | 64

Talk down to Siri like it's a mere servant – your safety demands it

Voice assistants get samples of our voice that can be remixed and faked

AI + ML12 Feb 2018 | 71

When you play this song backwards, you can hear Satan. Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa

Speech recognition systems seduced by masked messages

AI + ML30 Jan 2018 | 58

Audio tweaked just 0.1% to fool speech recognition engines

Digital dog whistles: AI hears signals humans can't comprehend

AI + ML11 Jan 2018 | 31

Cortana. Whatever happened to world domination?

Analysis The speech recogniser that coulda

Science10 Jan 2018 | 69

Total recog: British AI makes universal speech breakthrough

Interview SpeechMatics bests world+dog at adding new language. How did it do it?

AI + ML01 Dec 2017 | 24

Mozilla releases voice dataset and transcription engine

Baidu's Deep Speech with TensorFlow under the covers

Science30 Nov 2017 | 4

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

Facial and voice recognition – just beware translations

AI + ML22 Aug 2017 | 23

Mozilla hoping to open source voice samples for future AI devs

Prying open speech recognition

AI + ML20 Jul 2017 | 9

Brit neural net pioneer just revolutionised speech recognition all over again

Profile Deep learning with Dr Tony Robinson

AI + ML17 Jul 2017 | 33

Who will save us from voice recog foolery from scumbags? Magnetometer!

Yes, the one that lives in your mobile ...

Security12 Jun 2017 | 80

Amazon touts Echo voice-recog tech to world's gizmo makers

Just so long as you don't let children anywhere near it

Science13 Apr 2017 | 7

Researcher hopes to teach infants with cochlear implants to speak – with an app

Kids who've never heard need 'habilitation' – they've never had a skill to rehabilitate

Science26 Mar 2017 | 3

Smash up your kid's Bluetooth-connected Cayla 'surveillance' doll, Germany urges parents

Or switch it off, bin it, bury it, whatever's necessary

Security17 Feb 2017 | 64

Eee by gum! Aye up, Microsoft, what's tha y' got? Cloud for accents?

Sorry – t'cloud for accents?

Devops08 Feb 2017 | 15

TV anchor says live on-air 'Alexa, order me a dollhouse' – guess what happens next

Story on accidental order begets story on accidental order begets accidental order

Personal Tech07 Jan 2017 | 244

AI brains take a step closer to understanding speech just like humans

A thousand spoken words is worth a picture

AI + ML09 Dec 2016 | 33

Revamped Cortana finally lands on UK mobe mass market

Android and iOS users get robo assistant

Personal Tech08 Dec 2016 | 17

Playtime's over: Internet-connected kids toys 'fail miserably' at privacy

Won't someone think of the children, literally?

Security08 Dec 2016 | 31

2016. AI boffins picked a hell of a year to train a neural net by making it watch the news

Lipreading software must think us humans are maniacs

AI + ML23 Nov 2016 | 12

Is that you, HAL? AI can now see secrets through lipreading – kinda

LipNet's got potential but also a loooong way to go

AI + ML08 Nov 2016 | 14

This speech recognition code is 'just as good' as a pro transcriber

Transcriptionist, your days are numbered, it seems

AI + ML19 Oct 2016 | 41

Microsoft: Our AI speech recognition mangles your words the least

Cortana may be due an upgrade

AI + ML15 Sep 2016 | 23

Hello, Barclays? Why hello, John Smith. We meet again

UK bank drops passwords, rolls out voice recog for phone banking

Security01 Aug 2016 | 82

So. Why don't people talk to invisible robots in public?

Some questions just answer themselves

Software07 Jun 2016 | 63

Time to get your babble on: Microsoft opens Skype Translator Preview to all comers

Chat to your mates in Klingon

Software12 May 2015 | 33

Samsung: Our TVs? Spying on you? Ha Ha! Just a joke of course

No 'sensitive information' warning any more ... done

Security10 Feb 2015 | 60

Watch it: It's watching you as you watch it (Your Samsung TV is)

Glass eye - quite so

Security09 Feb 2015 | 134

Siri, are you afraid of Facebook's new speech recognition tech?

Zuck & Co gain mobile speech APIs with Wit.ai gobble

On-Prem06 Jan 2015 | 8

Look ma, no hands! The machines are speaking our language

Voice recognition grows up

Personal Tech10 Oct 2014 | 19

Brit bank Barclays rolls out speech recognition for telephone banking

I hab a cold. What do goo mean you can't berify?

Security24 Jun 2014 | 19

Skype to become 'Star Trek' style real-time translator, says Redmond

Allô? Cette vidéo est une boîte de puanteurs

Software28 May 2014 | 36

Facebook to gobble voice-recog outfit, not so chatty on price tag

Translate 'dumb f***s' into 'making the world more connected' ... bitch

On-Prem13 Aug 2013 | 9

Google buys speech rec patents from SR Tech

From unknown to Choc Factory provider

Legal24 Jul 2013 | 5

Siri, will Chrome's new speech features kill you?

Google bakes Web Speech API into browser beta

Software15 Jan 2013 | 36

China Mobile squares up to Siri with voice portal

How do you rate your chances in China now, Siri?

Networks04 Dec 2012 | 2

Chinese tech players take aim at Apple's talking tech

Can the Speech Industry Alliance of China hurt Apple, Siri?

Networks08 Aug 2012 | 15

Google shows off Project Glass augmented reality specs

Nerdy but nice

Legal04 Apr 2012 | 106

Voice prints at risk from impostors

Up to 20% of voice biometric samples could be fooled by ‘wolves’

Channel14 Mar 2012 | 4

Google's Siri-a-like to be named 'Majel' after Trek actress

Software that acts human named after human acting like software

Software16 Dec 2011 | 68

Amazon quietly acquires voice capability

Everyone else is doing it!

Software11 Nov 2011 | 3

Siri gets over her huff, returns useful as ever

OK, I will open the pod-bay doors

Personal Tech04 Nov 2011 | 17

Trust me, I'm a computer: Watson takes on health care challenge

Blog Code conquers the medical journals

AI + ML25 Sep 2011 | 35

Apple guzzles wobbly concierge service

Where Google walks, so Cupertino follows

Personal Tech29 Apr 2010 | 10

iPhone app transforms speech to text

There's a Dragon in my phone!

Applications09 Dec 2009 | 27

First 'fully accurate' totally voice-controlled phone unveiled

'Look, ma, no hands'

Personal Tech30 Jan 2009 | 33

Google to launch iPhone voice search app

'How can I unlock this phone?'

Personal Tech14 Nov 2008 | 3

Microsoft plays Show me, Tellme

Buys speech recognition firms

Channel14 Mar 2007 |

A cashpoint that gives you verbals

'You have insufficient funds to get drunk. Go home'

On-Prem04 Apr 2005 |