The Pixel 10 Pro’s new voice typing is wild, and it’s changed how I use my phone

Google's Gboard keyboard has some fancy new tricks up its sleeve; now I never want to use my hands to type ever again.

For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword

Pilot programs on Spotify and iHeartMedia currently allow select podcasters — including Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell and ...
TechPP

How I Used Whisper AI to Make Subtitles for Any Movie (Free & Offline)

Use Whisper AI to generate accurate, multilingual subtitles for any movie free and offline on Windows, macOS, or Linux with simple installation steps.
Slator

Adobe Firefly Launches New Feature for Multilingual AI Voiceovers

Adobe’s new feature lets users create AI voiceovers in more than 20 languages with adjustable pacing and emotion.
India Today on MSN

Meet world's first emotional speech-to-speech AI, Luna created by IIT-BHU alumnus

IIT-BHU alumnus Sparsh Agrawal has developed Luna, the world's first speech-to-speech foundational AI capable of singing, whispering, and responding with emotion. Built without big-tech backing, Luna ...

Portage officers adopt AI writing tool amid larger move to tech

Brooks Running CEO Dan Sheridan sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss consumer spending trends ...
marktechpost

Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...
IEEE

Bridging Modality Gap with Large Speech and Language Models for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation

Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-text translation (E2E ST) has increasingly aroused interest and attention recently, attempting to address the problem of data scarcity and modeling burden. Several ...
Reuters

UN Security Council members voice concern about US-Venezuela tensions

Russia says Venezuela has every reason to fear US action US allies call for de-escalation and dialogue US has struck several alleged drug boats in recent weeks Oct 10 (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council ...
MacRumors

Adding BlackBerry-Style Keys to Your iPhone Just Got More Affordable

Keyboard manufacturer Akko has just launched an iPhone keyboard case called MetaKey, proving that BlackBerry nostalgia is alive, well, and willing to add inches to your smartphone's length. Like ...
The Boston Globe

May I have a word: Otto Korrect — oops, autocorrect — mishears you

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to name voice-to-text transcription errors — for example, you ask your bot “How ...
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 ...