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151hours of speech
The Speech Accessibility Project's first published study trained a recognizer on 151 hours of speech from people with Parkinson's disease.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“researchers asked an automatic speech recognizer to listen to 151 hours”
Automatic speech recognition learned to understand people with Parkinson's disease by listening to them, Speech Accessibility Project, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute, 2024, Article, first paragraph after introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- The study appeared in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, and its recordings are available to researchers, nonprofits and companies.
- What it does not show
- The paper reports the error rates; this article reports the data volume.