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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
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- The Speech Accessibility Project's own news article on its first published study, a Parkinson's speech recognition model trained on 151 hours of recordings from people with Parkinson's disease.
- How much weight it carries
- The project's own account of its study, written for a general audience. It is useful for the scale of the data but the peer-reviewed paper is the source for the error rates.
Facts taken from this source
- The Speech Accessibility Project's first published study trained a recognizer on 151 hours of speech from people with Parkinson's disease.
“researchers asked an automatic speech recognizer to listen to 151 hours” (Article, first paragraph after introduction)