About four years ago, Maichou Lor was living in New York completing a postdoctoral fellowship, when family members back home in Wisconsin kept telling her that her dad’s hearing was getting worse. “He ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This test of word recognition of the ...

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The role of components in object recognition is still mysterious 4,5,6,7. For most objects we don't even know what the components are, but we do know that words are made of letters. Is a familiar word ...

IBM has edged past Microsoft in its latest speech-recognition test, achieving a word error rate of 5.5 percent. That error rate does match the roughly one in 20 words ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf has launched a website that provides individuals with one tool to determine whether they may benefit from hearing aids, ...