Google’s Project Relate: Using Machine Learning to Help People with ALS

Project Relate is an app for Android phones and tablets that aims to use the power of voice recognition technology to help people with dysarthria, or difficulty speaking, in their day-to-day lives. The app is a product of Project Euphonia – a program founded by Google and Harvard researchers in collaboration with ALS TDI. Although it’s since expanded to include other conditions that might affect someone’s speech, the project was founded using data collected through ALS TDI’s ALS Research Collaborative (ARC) Study. 

Today, on Endpoints, we’re joined by Pan-Pan Jiang, a Technical Project Manager for Project Relate, to tell us more about how the app works, how it can help people with ALS, and how ALS TDI’s ARC data was instrumental in its development.

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