US EditionHow Howard University Is Helping Tech Understand Black Speech
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, AUG 4 – Project Elevate Black Voices logged over 600 hours of data to improve AI speech recognition for Black dialects, addressing accessibility gaps in technology for communities of color.
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How Howard University Is Helping Tech Understand Black Speech
Photograph by Getty Images.Lucretia Williams, a researcher at Howard University, is regularly interviewed about her work, and she’s noticed that her quotes sometimes aren’t quite right (the “-ed” might get dropped from a word, for example). She attributes this issue to transcription technology, which—like all voice-recognition software—can struggle with Black speech. That’s a problem that she and her team are now trying to address. Williams has …
Howard University partners with Google to launch AI speech recognition initiative
Howard University President Ben Vincent III touts groundbreaking initiative to include Black dialect in artificial intelligence (AI) development. The post Howard University partners with Google to launch AI speech recognition initiative appeared first on AFRO American Newspapers.
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