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Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition systems achieve remarkable accuracy.
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20 Jan 2025

Global Trust in Science Remains Strong

Led by UZH and ETH Zurich, a team of 241 researchers conducted the largest post-pandemic study ...

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16 Jan 2025

CHF 2 Million for Neonatology Research

Professor Martin Wolf has been awarded one of the coveted SNSF Advanced Grants 2023. His project ...

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16 Jan 2025

Germs and Kisses

Adrian Egli has devoted himself to microbes – all the bacteria, fungi and viruses that keep us ...

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15 Jan 2025

Automatic Speech Recognition on Par with Humans in Noisy Conditions

Current ASR systems achieve remarkable accuracy and may even surpass human performance. While ...

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13 Jan 2025

Beatings and Idolization

Back in the 18th century, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau cast childhood in an entirely new ...

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8 Jan 2025

Rethinking Population Management in Zoos

Until now, zoos used contraception to avoid surplus animals. Scientists argue for preserving ...

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7 Jan 2025

AI Shifts Power

Machines are not yet capable of thinking like we do. But if artificial intelligence evolves ...

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URPP Highlights

9 Jul 2024

Values and Sustainability

The way people behave in complex social relationships over time can now be analyzed in great detail thanks to methods developed by the URPP Social ...

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3 Jul 2024

“Biodiversity is our life insurance”

Ecosystems are more stable and productive when they contain more species. This has been demonstrated impressively by researchers from the URPP ...

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27 Jun 2024

“The next crisis can’t be prevented through regulation alone”

Financial market law can’t prevent a bank going bankrupt – nor should it – but it should effectively limit the impact on systemic stability and ...

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24 Jun 2024

“The tumor microenvironment enormously affects cancer cells”

One major achievement of the URPP Translational Cancer Research is the newly created “dialogue among equals between basic research and clinical ...

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19 Jun 2024

“Making the catalysts work for us”

“The scientific strides we’ve made will hopefully allow us to kick-start the long-awaited technology of producing energy from artificial ...

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13 Jun 2024

“UZH is a leader in evolutionary biology research”

How do organisms and pathogens evolve and adapt to the environment? This was the question that the URPP Evolution in Action sought to address. The ...

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10 Jun 2024

Setting New Standards through Interdisciplinary Research

Elvira Glaser, co-founder of the recently concluded University Research Priority Program Language and Space, takes stock and tells us what ...

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5 Jun 2024

Time to Take Stock and Think Ahead

UZH’s University Research Priority Programs tackle pressing societal problems. They enable researchers to apply their expertise in selected ...

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3 Jun 2024

Leading the Way in Research on Aging

The recently-concluded UZH University Research Priority Program Dynamics of Healthy Aging achieved some impressive results. The World Health ...

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