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  Speech Accessibility Project partners with The Matthew Foundation, Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress

  Nov 14, 2024 by Meg Dickinson

  As it continues to recruit Canadian, U.S. and Puerto Rican adults, the Speech Accessibility Project is working with two partners already serving...

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  Speech Accessibility Project expands to Canada

  Oct 18, 2024 by Meg Dickinson

  The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting Canadian adults with Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Down...

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  Automatic speech recognition learned to understand people with Parkinson’s disease — by listening to them

  Sep 27, 2024 by Jenna Kurtzweil

  Listening to people with Parkinson’s disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30% more accurate, according to initial findings from the Speech...

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  Speech Accessibility Project’s three newest partners are dedicated to people with cerebral palsy

  Jul 9, 2024 by Meg Dickinson

  Organizations who serve people with cerebral palsy are providing crucial support to the Speech Accessibility Project.

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  Speech Accessibility Project now sharing recordings, data

  Apr 16, 2024 by Meg Dickinson

  The first 211 recordings of people with Parkinson’s now available to those who submit proposal, sign data use agreement.

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  Speech Accessibility Project begins recruiting people who have had a stroke

  Feb 1, 2024 by Meg Dickinson

  The Speech Accessibility Project has begun recruiting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults who have had a stroke.

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  Voice recognition project recruiting adults with cerebral palsy

  Jan 9, 2024 by Meg Dickinson

  The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults with cerebral palsy.

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  Speech Accessibility Project begins recruiting people with ALS

  Jan 4, 2024

  The Speech Accessibility Project has expanded its recruitment and is inviting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

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  Speech Accessibility Project now recruiting adults with Down syndrome

  Nov 9, 2023 by Meg Dickinson

  The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting U.S. adults with Down syndrome. The project aims to make voice recognition technology more useful...

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  Speech Accessibility Project recruiting people with Parkinson’s

  Aug 24, 2023 by Meg Dickinson

  The Speech Accessibility Project is almost halfway through its first phase of gathering voice recordings from people with Parkinson’s. The project...

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  Accessible voice recognition project to begin recruiting people with Parkinson’s

  Mar 13, 2023

  The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’ Speech Accessibility Project will begin by recruiting participants with Parkinson's.

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  University of Illinois joins five technology industry leaders in new Speech Accessibility Project

  Oct 3, 2022

  Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and nonprofit partners pledge to expand speech recognition capabilities for people with disabilities and...

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