Apple Podcasts is training Siri to understand users who stutterApple is training Siri to understand people who stutter.
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Apple is using Apple Podcasts to train Siri to understand people with a stutter.
The company has collected 28,000 audio samples from podcasts to aid in the research.
Apple is looking to improve Siri to understand users with atypical speech patterns, such as those with a stutter. In order to support the effort, the company is extracting audio samples from Apple Podcasts that will help train Siri to understand more kinds of speech.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal (via 9to5Mac), Apple has built a bank of 28,000 audio clips from podcasts that feature someone with a stutter.
The company is now researching how to automatically detect if someone speaks with a stutter, and has built a bank of 28,000 audio clips from podcasts featuring stuttering to help do so, according to a research paper due to be published by Apple employees this week that was seen by the Wall Street Journal.
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Apple Podcasts is training Siri to understand users who stutter
