The project will gather a set of high-quality, diverse speech samples that will help improve speech technologies.
However, experts say these systems don’t always recognize certain speech patterns, particularly those associated with disabilities.
Companies are now going back and adding more inclusive examples to their data sets.
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The information can train machine learning models to better understand a range of speech patterns.
“Both pronunciations need to be in the dataset for comparison.”
“Companies are now going back and adding more inclusive examples to their data sets.
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Schmid pointed out that85 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed.
For Panetta, the research is personal as well as professional.
