Researchers at the University of Missouri will use $8 million from the Department of Education to improve the science video game Mission HydroSci. Researchers at the University of Missouri are using ...

Some bloggers amaze me — not by what they say, but by how much they say. It seems to me sometimes that a lot of these guys must be sitting in front of their keyboard 18 hours a day filling screen ...

Speech recognition, sometimes referred to as "automatic speech recognition (ASR)" or "voice recognition," isn't a new technology — researchers at Bell Labs pursued ASR with funding from the defense ...

Last week, I had a day where everyone I happened to chat with here in Silicon Valley was complaining of wrist pain. No wonder, between our work and new found social media habits, many of us spend ...

Sound is a powerful source of information. By training algorithms to identify distinct sound signatures, sound can reveal what a person is doing, whether it's cooking, vacuuming or washing the dishes.

More than 250 million people worldwide have verbal communication disorders that make it difficult to use automatic speech recognition programs. Simply sharing what they'd like to eat for dinner by ...

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 ...

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 ...