How AI can improve products for people with impaired speech

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Most aspects of life involve communicating with others—and being understood by those people as well. Many of us take this understanding for granted, but you can imagine the extreme difficulty and frustration you’d feel if people couldn’t easily understand the way you talk or express yourself. That’s the reality for millions of people living with speech impairments caused by neurologic conditions such as stroke, ALS, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injuries and Parkinson’s.

To help solve this problem, the Project Euphonia team—part of our

We’re excited to see where this can take us, and we need your help. These improvements to speech recognition are only possible if we have many speech samples to train the system. If you have slurred or hard to understand speech, fill out this short form to volunteer and record a set of phrases. Anyone can also donate to or volunteer with our partners, ALS TDI and the ALS Residence Initiative. The more speech samples our system hears, the more potential we have to make progress and apply these tools to better support everyone, no matter how they communicate.

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