Abstract: We investigate a set of techniques for RNN Transducers (RNN-Ts) that were instrumental in lowering the word error rate on three different tasks (Switchboard ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...

Just how small can a QR code be? Small enough that it can only be recognized with an electron microscope. A research team at TU Wien, working together with the data storage technology company Cerabyte ...

Greg Lukianoff is president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the co-author, with Nadine Strossen, of “The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech — And Why ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deepgram, the world’s most realistic and real-time Voice AI platform, today announced integration of its enterprise-grade speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) ...

A mysterious vomiting disorder tied to long-term marijuana use is now formally recognized by global health officials, a move experts say could help save lives as cases surge nationwide. The World ...

Speech recognition in Windows 11 lets you control your PC with your voice, making typing and navigation faster and easier. This guide will show you all you need to know to set it up and start using it ...

Fights over free speech have taken up a lot of space in the zeitgeist lately. People on both the left and right claim to be the defenders of free speech, while pointing fingers at the other side for ...

Hugging Face has teamed up with NVIDIA, Mistral AI, and the University of Cambridge to launch the Open ASR Leaderboard, a public benchmark for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The researchers noted ...

On September 8, 2025, Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen3-ASR Flash, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system covering 11 languages — as well as multiple dialects and accents — and a range of ...

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...

Last year, a pair of Harvard students gained widespread media attention when they modified Meta’s smart glasses to search people’s identities with facial recognition. The duo, now Harvard dropouts, ...