Google Crowdsourcing Accents to Improve Voice Recognition

Last year, Google ran a project involving Google Voice and Project Fi to cut transcription errors by 49 per cent. However, accents have remained a sticking point for the software, with Google Now only recently gaining official support for Indian and …

Last year, Google ran a project involving Google Voice and Project Fi to cut transcription errors by 49 per cent. However, accents have remained a sticking point for the software, with Google Now only recently gaining official support for Indian and ...