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 ...

Compared to most industries, healthcare has lagged behind in the adoption of information technology. One area in healthcare that consumes a great deal of time is documentation. Many physicians have ...

Physicians often complain that when using electronic health records (EHRs), they're so busy typing that it's difficult to make good eye contact with patients. New voice recognition software holds ...

The Health Information Management Systems Society has identified the virtualization and speech recognition software markets as poised for significant growth in the Autumn 2013 edition of the ...

The latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking offers improvements in ease of use and speech-to-text accuracy. What's more, the product supports a wide variety of digital voice recorders, allowing a ...

Voice-recognition software been a hot commodity for big tech over the last several years. Industry research suggests that the market for voice-recognition technology could reach $50 billion by 2029.

Speech-recognition technology has been around since the 1960s, when computer scientists were trying to mimic the complexities of human speech. Now, the technology has become an everyday feature as ...

Every time you say something to Alexa or Siri, or use voice to text to send a text message, you’re using artificial intelligence. While those programs can be pretty accurate, there’s plenty of times ...

Voice recognition leader Nuance Communications is snapping up a rival as part of its advancing foray into voice-enabling mobile devices and services. Voice recognition leader Nuance Communications is ...

Canary Speech, maker of AI-enabled speech analysis software, announced it scored $13 million in Series A funding. Cortes Capital (Love's Private Equity) led the round, with participation from SMK ...

"This release makes speech recognition a benefit for everybody," said Robert Weideman, senior vice president of marketing and product strategy for Nuance. Version 9 is targeted at first-time users, he ...