It was a typical evening on Dec. 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks boarded the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a department store seamstress. Parks sat
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Howard University professor Gloria Washington about a new project that will make it easier for Black people to be understood by automatic speech recognition technology.
Google, led by Sundar Pichai, has partnered with Howard University on Project Elevate Black Voices to address racial disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition technology.