It's likely that you have encountered the annoyance of having an AI assistant or smart speaker mishear or misunderstand you. Voiceitt, an Israeli firm, seeks to change the fact that practically every connection with this form of technology might cause non-standard speech in people.

Its AI-powered speech recognition technology allows persons with speech problems brought on by diseases like cerebral palsy, Parkinson's, Down syndrome, or stroke communicate more successfully with others and digital devices by employing tailored voice models.

Facilitating voice recognition for non-standard speech patterns is a personal objective for Voiceitt co-founder Sara Smolley. She remarked, "My grandmother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease with an early onset." "She had lost most of her motor skills and her speech was affected by the time I was born."

In 2021, Voiceitt was released as an app that functioned as a basic voice translator, translating non-standard speech to audio. The user records oneself expressing about 200 common, easy words to teach the AI.

According to Smolley, the technology was once designed to help with face-to-face communication, but it is now also designed with distant workers in mind.

Voiceitt has created Google Chrome extensions and integrations with WebEx and ChatGPT that translate non-standard speech into captions that are shown on the screen.Additionally, the business has partnerships with Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

"The significance of accessibility technology in the workplace was one of the things that really caught my attention," Smolley said. "Today's remote workplace is what a wheelchair ramp was to yesterday's Voiceitt office building," the speaker remarked.

The program is available for purchase in $20 to $50 increments as either a per-minute or per-user license. Workplaces, medical facilities, and educational institutions can purchase licenses in large quantities.

Smolley said, "People are using Voiceitt for more than just video meetings. They are using it to write documents, emails, post on LinkedIn, and access web browsers by voice. Those who might not have been qualified for certain jobs or able to interact with coworkers or customers now have access to the digital world."