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The everyday voice recognition technologies we use, such as Siri and speech-to-text functions, rely on the technology of speech recognition.
Professor Lee Tan, from the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has dedicated over thirty years of research to the field of speech recognition, with a focus on Cantonese.
Several years ago, his research team embarked on a new project: designing a "personalised voice programme" for patients with throat cancer who were about to lose their ability to speak. By combining speech synthesis technology with artificial intelligence, the team developed a programme that can read out text that resembles the patient's own.

The inspiration for this research project originated from a post on an online discussion forum...
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문화 - Culture
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Department of Electronic Engin, Lee Tan, Speech processing technology
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