Read Along wants to help improve child literacy by using Google’s speech recognition technology to give kids reading aloud verbal and visual feedback. Originally an Android app, Google’s Read Along is ...

Google is looking for help developing an Android app aimed at providing more communication options for people with speech impairments. Project Relate, as the effort and app is now called, will provide ...

For too long, people with speech impairments have struggled to be understood not only by other people, but also by voice-based technology. Though some companies have started to make their products ...

Google said the expansion brings speech recognition to over a billion new users worldwide. The list of newly supported languages includes Amernian (Armenia), Bengali (Bangladesh, India), Sundanese ...

Shortcuts, small external keyboards and even improved (and free) dictation software can make long sessions of text input much simpler. By J. D. Biersdorfer J. D. Biersdorfer is the Tech Tip columnist ...