Speech recognition startup Deepgram is launching a $10 million accelerator program to help develop voice applications.

Howard University and Google are teaming up to change speech recognition for Black Americans through a partnership called “Project Elevate Black Voices.” ...

Now, let’s do some of the programming. To demonstrate how speech recognition application is created, let’s first try to use Pocketsphinx with Python.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking remains the most powerful beast in speech recognition, but cheap or even free tools are staking out territory for simpler tasks.

This year Microsoft included a voice-recognition feature in its new Vista operating system and dropped a reported $800 million to acquire a speech-software start-up called Tellme.