Researchers at the University of Toronto have pioneered a method of developing on-device speech recognition models that achieve state-of-the-art accuracy.

Google's speech-to-text feature in Gboard is now fully capable of real time speech recognition while offline. Digital assistants and voice-controlled gadgets have come a long way in just a few years.

With the new speech recognizer, however, Google is taking that process offline, meaning voice recognition will take place on your device and will be a whole lot faster.

More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues ...