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Project Relate

Mountain View, United States

Project Relate was built through years of research with thousands of people recording over a million speech samples, but participation centers on personalization more than shared governance.

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Overview

Region: Global
Lead organization: Google Research
Organization type: company research
Technology group: speech recognition
Activity status: active
Start year: 2021
Last updated: Mar 25, 2026

Participation documentation

Participation mode: personalized data contribution + user testing
Participants: people with non-standard speech
Methods: participatory data donation; personalized model training; user testing
AI lifecycle stages: data collection; model training; deployment
Evidence summary: Project Relate was built through years of research with thousands of people recording over a million speech samples, but participation centers on personalization more than shared governance.
Atlas assessment: Cautious · Medium confidence · evidence grade A
Uncertainty: Participation is present and verified, but is mostly contributory, consultative, or otherwise weaker than core atlas exemplars.