Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn't just hear you, it takes tonal cues too The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 7
Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri Alexa, am I wasted? Science10 Nov 2023 | 12
Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps Microsoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages OSes03 May 2023 | 4
Someone's at last helping AI models understand those with speech disabilities Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that AI + ML04 Oct 2022 | 16
British watchdog begins probing Microsoft's acquisition of AI speech specialist Nuance You have until 10 January to make your feelings felt AI + ML13 Dec 2021 | 3
A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse Dictates 3 languages, translates into 6, available only in China AI + ML14 Apr 2021 | 30
Free users become losers as AI startup with AWS bills to pay pursues viral opportunity Speech recognition purveyor Otter.ai makes a choice to chase Zoom-ing dollars AI + ML28 Apr 2020 | 4
Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus AI'm Lovin' It AI + ML11 Sep 2019 | 35
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
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
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
First 'fully accurate' totally voice-controlled phone unveiled 'Look, ma, no hands' Personal Tech30 Jan 2009 | 33
A cashpoint that gives you verbals 'You have insufficient funds to get drunk. Go home' On-Prem04 Apr 2005 |