Google has reached out to The Arc to recruit persons with IDD to help develop speech recognition technology. If you or someone you know has slurred or hard-to-understand speech, fill out this short form to volunteer and record a set of phrases.

The more speech samples the system hears, the more potential Google has to make progress and apply these tools to better support everyone, no matter how they communicate.

Watch this short video to learn about the exciting work that Google is doing to improve speech recognition technology.