Improving speech recognition all over the world
In 2019, we launched Project Euphonia to find ways to make speech recognition more accessible to people with non-standard speech. Now we support developers and organizations around the world as they bring this work to even more languages ​​and cultural contexts.
New developer resources
To improve the ecosystem of tools globally, we provide developers our open source stocks via Project Euphonia’s GitHub page. They can now develop personalized audio tools for research or train their models for different speech patterns.
Support for new projects in Africa
Earlier this year, we collaborated with Google.org to provide support to University College London in their creation of the Center for Digital Language Inclusion (CDLI). CDLI is working to improve speech recognition technology for non-English speakers in Africa by creating open source data sets in 10 African languages, building new speech recognition models and continuing to support the ecosystem of organizations and developers in this space.
Extension of accessibility options for students
Accessibility tools can be particularly useful for students with disabilities, from using facial movements to navigating their face -control chromebooks to adapting their reading experience with reading mode.
And now, when you use your Chromebook with the College Board’s Bluebook Testing app (which is where students can take set and most advanced location exams), you have access to all Google’s built-in accessibility features. This includes Chromevox screen reader and dictation along with College Board’s own digital test tools.
Makes chrome more available
With more than 2 billion people using Chrome every day, we always strive to make our browser easier to use and more accessible to anyone with features such as live caption and image descriptions for screen readers.
Access PDFs easier on Chrome
Earlier, if you opened a scanned PDF in your Desktop Chrome browser, you wouldn’t be able to use your screen reader to interact with it. Now with Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Chrome automatically recognizes these types of PDF files so you can highlight, copy and search for text like any other page and use your screen reader to read them.
Read easily with Page Zoom
Side Zoom now allows you to increase the size of the text you see in Chrome on Android without affecting the website or your browsing experience – just like how it works on Chrome Desktop. You can customize how much you want to zoom in and easily apply preference to all the pages you visit or just specific.