Microsoft Corp. is about to stir the speech recognition market with the launch of its Speech Server products next week. The vendor promises speech recognition for the masses, but analysts warn that ...

Microsoft researchers say they have created a speech recognition system that understands human conversation as well as the average person does. In a paper published this week the Microsoft Artificial ...

Microsoft’s speech and dialog research group’s speech recognition system now boasts a 5.1 percent error rate, according to a Aug. 20 company blog post by Xuedong ...

Microsoft announced Monday that it will buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $16 billion, the tech giant's largest acquisition since it bought LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in ...

Canary Speech, maker of speech analysis software, is partnering with Microsoft to apply the tech giant's AI technology to expand its machine learning speech models for healthcare. Canary offers vocal ...

Windows 11 Voice Access is a major update to Microsoft's accessibility tools, allowing users to control their desktop entirely with voice commands — no hands or Internet connection required. The ...

Would you guys rate it at being adequate for transcribing a rough dictation when you know you're going to be going back to edit the whole thing? If so, it might be useful for recording those middle of ...

Just like you would ask Google Assistant or Siri to accomplish tasks on your phone, you can also talk to your Windows PC to get things done hands-free. While you can use basic commands to perform ...

Liability Arguments: The suit was brought on behalf of Cerence, a text-to-speech and voice-recognition technology company. It alleges that, after Microsoft acquired Nuance in March 2022, the ...

If you've ever needed or wanted free software to handle dictation or to control your PC using voice commands, look no further than Windows 11 itself. Microsoft's latest OS comes with three tools that ...