Tech Firms Train Voice Assistants to Understand Atypical Speech

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Voice assistants like Alexa and Siri often can’t understand people with dysarthria or a stutter. Their creators say that may change.

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“I’m not fast enough for it,” Ms. Munn said. “If I want to say something like ‘Alexa, tell me the news,’ it will shut down before I finish asking.” Some made investments into voice accessibility after realizing that people with dysarthria—often a side effect of conditions including cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease or a brain tumor—may be the group that stands to benefit most from voice-recognition technology.

Amazon in December announced an Alexa integration with Voiceitt, an Israeli startup backed by Amazon’s Alexa Fund that lets people with speech impairments train an algorithm to recognize their own unique vocal patterns. Slated to go live in the coming months, the integration will allow people with atypical speech to operate Alexa devices by speaking into the Voiceitt application.

Google’s Project Euphonia initiative is testing a prototype app that lets people with atypical speech communicate with Google Assistant and smart Google Home products by training software to understand their unique speech patterns. But it’s also compiling an audio bank of atypical speech that volunteers—including Ms. Munn—contribute to.

 

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