UIUC partners with tech companies to improve speech recognition for individuals with disabilities

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Oct 05 2022 | 00:03:31

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Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple may have competing interests, but they’ve recently found one thing to work together on: All five of these big tech companies have joined forces to support the Speech Accessibility Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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