As Google details in its blog post, the voice dictation improvements were made possible with accuracy improvements through deep learning. The “prime focus” of several architectures was to reduce the ...

This paper describes the construction and small-scale implementation of a computer program which can be used on a self-access basis to assess secondary school students' ESL listening proficiency. The ...

Sean Oh's letter ("Dictation can help students and teachers", March 31) and Roger Phillips' letter ("Not a good tool for learning languages", March 21) talk about different things. Phillips was ...

Speech recognition software has struggled to match the precision of typing. But over the last few years, thanks to deep learning and big data collection, those programs have improved dramatically. A ...