YOUR HELP IS NEEDED Google research continues to need voice samples to expand its tasking efficacy for all types of speech patterns. According to MacDonald, the more patterns we can record from people who stutter, the better Google’s overall model can become at understanding differences in speech patterns and successfully understanding verbal commands from different users.


Though speech recognition algorithms have heard millions of examples of words and phrases from people whose voices sound “typical,” the algorithms have not heard nearly as many examples from people with atypical speech.


Stuttering speech patterns currently make up just 5% of total voice recordings, and Google researchers would welcome the opportunity to add more stuttering speech patterns to its model.


If you’re 18-years-of-age or older and have a voice that may be considered difficult to understand (but not because of an accent), you can assist Google in its research by recording a set of phrases. Visit https:// sites.research.google/euphonia/about/ and click the blue ‘RECORD PHRASES’ button in the upper right corner of the landing page to fill out an interest form.


According to MacDonald, “Each user’s voice we gather into the Cloud makes the entire model better for all users.”


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