THe company shared a series of new videos showcasing how people with disabilities can employ its accessibility features with Alexa, Fire TV, Kindle, and other products. This task has been difficult because it requires a lot of infrastructure, ideally the kind that can be supported by leading technology companies, so we’ve created a uniquely interdisciplinary team with expertise in linguistics, speech, AI, security, and privacy to help us meet this important challenge.”Īmazon timed some of its own accessibility news to the beginning of the Speech Accessibility Project. “Speech interfaces should be available to everybody, and that includes people with disabilities. “The option to communicate and operate devices with speech is crucial for anyone interacting with technology or the digital economy today,” UIUC professor and project leader Mark Hasegawa-Johnson explained. The project is starting in American English, though it could expand to other languages in the future. They will all have their voices anonymized and put into a dataset for training AI models to understand people with those speech impairments. The UIUC will helm the Speech Accessibility Project, including paying volunteers with ALS, Parkinson’s Disease, and other degenerative illnesses affecting speaking to contribute voice samples. The Speech Accessibility Project will collect and analyze speech samples from people with a broad array of speech impairments to train new AI models capable of understanding them as well as anyone else.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are partnering with the University of Illinois (UIUC) to form the Speech Accessibility Project and upgrade AI understanding of people with disabilities or unusual speech patterns.
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