Speech Accessibility Project data leads to recognition improvements on Microsoft Azure

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Speech Accessibility Project data leads to recognition improvements on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s speech recognition tools have seen “significant improvements” for people with speech differences because of a disability.

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Meg Dickinson

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January 31, 2025

Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech platform achieved “significant improvements” in recognizing non-standard English speech thanks to recordings and transcripts from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Speech Accessibility Project participants. Its accuracy gains range from 18% to 60%, depending on the speaker’s disability.

The changes are currently rolling out on Microsoft’s Cloud endpoint for third-party customers.

Until now, the [...]

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