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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

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The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. The project is housed within the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and was announced in fall 2022. Currently, the project is recruiting English-speaking U.S. and Canadian adults who have Parkinson’s disease, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and those who have had a stroke. The project has unprecedented cross-industry support from funders Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft, as well as nonprofit organizations whose communities will benefit from this accessibility initiative. As of the end of June 2024, the project has shared 235,000 speech samples with the five funding companies. Apply to join the Speech Accessibility Project.

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