Google Now, search giant Google’s eponymous voice assistant, has a surprisingly good grasp on the nuances of human speech. Thanks to a killer combination of machine learning and crowdsourced data, it ...

If you're one of the few people who own a Google Pixel phone, you'll soon be able to experience voice recognition without the internet. Google has announced the rollout of "an end-to-end, all-neural, ...

Millions of people routinely say “hey” to voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, even though the experience can be frustratingly glitchy. On Tuesday, Google previewed new technology that makes speech ...

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Some Long Islanders are helping to teach Google how to better understand them. They're people with speech differences and they're helping improve the technology ...

Smart assistants have proven themselves to be truly useful, but the devices struggle to recognize heavy accents and can leave some users frustrated. The problem is of even more concern when users with ...

Dylan Coyle is a reporter for Android Police, and there isn't much he doesn't cover across the Android fold. At a basic level, regardless of how complex a topic is, he tries to make it easier for ...

The new Speech Accessibility Project brings together five technology companies to bring voice recognition to those with non-standard speech patterns. Rather than work separately, all five companies ...

When Google Voice was released in 2012, and then Amazon Alexa was released in 2014 voice search was expected to be highly influential. Voice search didn’t quite take off in an industry-shaking way.