Open source TTS models Kokoro, Orpheus, and Piper are tested on symbols, abbreviations, and prosody with CER and MOS results.

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, extending its model family into speech generation and enabling end-to-end voice workflows.

Google launched a free offline AI dictation app on iOS, highlighting a shift toward private, on-device speech-to-text tools.

Politicians - especially Dems - should pledge not to take AI money. They are buying up influence ahead of the midterms, and ...

Google AI Edge Eloquent is a free, offline-first voice dictation app that automatically cleans up speech and enters a market where paid rivals like Willow and Wispr Flow charge up to $15 a month.

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Abstract: Speech emotional recognition (SER) focuses on developing computers' comprehension and response to human emotional tones and is a key field of research in human-machine interaction. This ...

Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis ...

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...

Two hundred and fifty-one years ago, as the 13 Colonies stood on the precipice of revolution, the great Patrick Henry rose to address the Second Virginia Convention to declare words that have echoed ...

Angela Lipps, seen here in a photo from her GoFundMe page, spent more than five months in jail for a crime she maintains she didn't commit after AI software linked her to a series of bank fraud ...

A man was arrested after he allegedly struck a child on their bike in Greater Cincinnati and fled the scene, leaving the child hospitalized. Two of Cincinnati's largest independent film organizations ...