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AI voice assistants like Apple\u2019s Siri and Amazon\u2019s Alexa have become part of our everyday lives. But for people with atypical voices, including those with conditions like Parkinson\u2019s disease and muscular dystrophy, these tools can be frustrating to use. Now a number of big tech companies including Amazon and Google, as well as research organizations are coming up with ways to make them more useful. What will it take to create voice assistants that work for everyone right out of the box?\xa0\n\n\n\nWhat do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: FOEPodcast@wsj.com\xa0\n\n\n\nFurther reading: \n\nTech Firms Train Voice Assistants to Understand Atypical Speech\xa0\n\nAmazon Makes Alexa Chattier and More Capable Using Generative AI\xa0\xa0\n\nAlexa, Siri, Cortana: Why All Your Bots Are Female\xa0\xa0\xa0\n\nDeep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition (2014, arXiv)\xa0\xa0\n\nLibrispeech: An ASR corpus based on public domain audio books (2015, IEEE International Conference)\xa0\xa0\n\nSpeech Accessibility Project from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices