Official documentation
Speech Accessibility Project
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- Home page of the Speech Accessibility Project, a University of Illinois initiative backed by technology companies that collects recordings from people with speech differences (such as Parkinson's disease, ALS, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, stroke, stuttering) to make speech recognition work better for them. It reports participant counts and results from companies using the data.
- How much weight it carries
- The project's own page: reliable for what the project is and how many people took part. Accuracy gains it reports are claims by partner companies, not independently measured on the page.
Facts taken from this source
- By the end of September 2025, about 2,000 people had submitted recordings to the University of Illinois Speech Accessibility Project, and Microsoft reported 18 to 60 percent accuracy gains from using the data.
“As of the end of September 2025, about 2,000 participants submitted recordings to the project. Microsoft announced 18% to 60% accuracy gains using our data.” (Our progress)