A start-up says its voice recognition tech beats Google

• Cambridge, England-based start-up Speechmatics said its voice recognition system had an overall accuracy rate of 83% for African American voices.
• That’s higher than Microsoft (73%), Amazon (69%), Google (69%), IBM (62%) and Apple (55%), according to figures from Stanford University.
• Researchers have become increasingly concerned about bias in the algorithms powering speech recognition services.

A British speech recognition firm says its software performed better than that of major tech companies like Google and Amazon in understanding Black voices.

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