What can singing mice say about human speech?

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

This new AI model hears your tone, senses your mood, and talks back like a real human. Siri could never.

Inworld launches voice AI that detects tone and emotion in real time, making conversations with machines feel more natural ...
Tech Xplore

What does it mean to train an AI to speak like you?

Ultra-personalized artificial intelligence for assisted communication risks muting aspects of the user's identity and ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Developers Are Dropping Cloud APIs for This Tiny 82M Speech Model

Kokoro 82M, a compact text-to-speech (TTS) model with just 82 million parameters, is proving that size isn’t everything in speech synthesis. Developed to run entirely on local hardware, this ...
Forbes

Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Model Stack To Reduce OpenAI Dependence

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft made three in-house AI models available for commercial use through its Foundry ...
Reuters

Takeaways from Trump's speech on Iran

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump staunchly defended his handling of the month-old U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in a prime-time address on Wednesday, saying the U.S. military was ...
SiliconANGLE

Mistral releases an open-weights ‘speaking’ AI model with Voxtral TTS

The Paris-based Mistral AI SAS today announced the release of Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech artificial intelligence model aimed at unseating the best-known and most powerful voice models on ...
GitHub

online-decode-files.py

curl -SL -O https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/releases/download/asr-models/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26.tar.bz2 tar xvf sherpa-onnx-streaming ...
Yahoo

State of the Union preview: Trump promises a long speech to the nation at a pivotal time for his presidency

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House Speaker Mike Johnson, right, and Vice President JD Vance, left, listen as President Trump addresses a joint session of ...
PBS

How to watch Trump's 2026 State of the Union

Correction: This post originally misidentified Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen as a congressman. The text has since been corrected. We regret the error. President ...
9to5Mac

New Apple-backed AI model can generate sound and speech from silent videos

The new model, called VSSFlow, leverages a creative architecture to generate sounds and speech with a single unified system, with state-of-the-art results. Watch (and hear) some demos below. Currently ...
The Verge

Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots

Production of the two pioneering models will end in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk says. Production of the two pioneering models will end in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk says. is ...