China’s leading Internet-search company, Baidu, has developed a voice system that can recognize English and Mandarin speech better than people, in some cases. The new system, called Deep Speech 2, is ...

Speech recognition is a software invention that allows the user to interact with their mobile devices through speech. It is simply an application that enables a machine to single out words or phrases ...

On Wednesday, Google unveiled Translatotron, an in-development speech-to-speech translation system. It’s not the first system to translate speech from one language to another, but Google designed ...

In the battle to apply deep-learning techniques to the real world, one company stands head and shoulders above the competition. Google’s DeepMind subsidiary has used the technique to create machines ...