Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages

Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages ...
Slator

AppTek Pioneers Next-Generation Expressive Text-to-Speech for AI Dubbing

AppTek’s sophisticated multilingual TTS model ensures that prosodic patterns are accurately generated, resulting in human-like emotional speech range with granular control over every voice parameter.
The Register on MSN

Coders paired with bot buddies work fast, but take too many shortcuts

Trust me bro, says GitHub Copilot. And programmers just... do Developers who "pair code" with an AI assistant stand to learn ...
Medical Xpress

Looking beyond speech recognition to evaluate cochlear implants

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated through speech recognition tests, and despite how widespread they are, CI ...
News Medical

Evaluating the link between sound quality, speech recognition and cochlear implant-related quality of life outcomes

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated through speech recognition tests, and despite how widespread they are, CI ...
IEEE

FPGA Implementation of PoolFormer Network Using Python-Driven High-Level Synthesis Framework for Edge-AIoT Speech Recognition

Abstract: This brief presents an edge-AIoT speech recognition system, which is based on a new spiking feature extraction (SFE) method and a PoolFormer (PF) neural network optimized for implementation ...
MSNBC

Pete Hegseth's speech wasn't just insulting to the military. It was radical.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned more than 800 military leaders from all over the world to a base in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday morning — only to dress them down. Pacing back and forth ...
NBC News

He's rated as Britain's most unpopular leader ever. Can he turn it around?

LONDON — He is the U.K.'s most unpopular leader on record — more disliked, polls say, than even Liz Truss, the woman famously outlasted by a lettuce. Little over a year after he won a historic ...
The New York Times

Defiant Netanyahu Denounces Palestine Recognition, to a Mostly Empty U.N. Hall

A Palestinian state would be “national suicide” for Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, but many of the diplomats and leaders at the assembly boycotted his remarks. By Ephrat Livni Liam ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
Al-Monitor

In UN speech, Trump slams allies’ Palestine recognition as 'reward' to Hamas

NEW YORK CITY — President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to press for the release of hostages held by Hamas and condemn the flurry of US allies that recognized ...