Project Euphonia: ALS TDI Works with Google to Help People with ALS Communicate
In 2018, ALS TDI began working a big collaboration with a partner you’ve probably heard of – Google.
At the time, Google was looking to put their artificial intelligence technology to use to help develop better speech recognition software for people with conditions that affect their ability to talk. ALS TDI was the perfect partner to launch this effort with, having already collected a wealth of voice recordings as part of our Precision Medicine Program.
Thus, Project Euphonia was born. Utilizing our PMP data, Google researchers began working to train their AI speech recognition tools to better understand people with ALS-affected speech, as well as other conditions. Today, this collaboration is beginning to bear fruit, with the early testing of Project Relate, the first app made available to the public from Project Euphonia.
Today, on Endpoints, we’re joined by Google’s Julie Cattiau, a product manager for Project Euphonia, to tell us about the history of this collaboration, what people can expect from the new app, and what might be coming in the future
In 2018, ALS TDI began working a big collaboration with a partner you’ve probably heard of – Google.
At the time, Google was looking to put their artificial intelligence technology to use to help develop better speech recognition software for people with conditions that affect their ability to talk. ALS TDI was the perfect partner to launch this effort with, having already collected a wealth of voice recordings as part of our Precision Medicine Program.
Thus, Project Euphonia was born. Utilizing our PMP data, Google researchers began working to train their AI speech recognition tools to better understand people with ALS-affected speech, as well as other conditions. Today, this collaboration is beginning to bear fruit, with the early testing of Project Relate, the first app made available to the public from Project Euphonia.
Today, on Endpoints, we’re joined by Google’s Julie Cattiau, a product manager for Project Euphonia, to tell us about the history of this collaboration, what people can expect from the new app, and what might be coming in the future.