Indulgexpress on MSN

Hailey Bieber trolled for ‘robotic’ awards speech; Internet thinks she used ChatGPT

Hailey Bieber has once again centre of attention this time due to her appearance at a recent award show. The Rhode Skin ...
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 ...
The Australian

Alexa, Amazon’s digital assistant, the third wheel in our marriage

Husband is fond of Amazon’s digital assistant, who arrived inside speakers one day and quickly settled into the lounge room as a third voice (third wheel, really). Sure, she’s a new toy but she has ...
The Daily Telegraph

The quest to find the ‘female Viagra’

“The market for female products is currently about a fifth of the male equivalent,” says Derren Nathan, the head of equity research at Hargreaves Lansdown. “But there’s a push-pull effect here. There ...
Reuters

AI data centre boom spurs robot maker ABB's US sales

ZURICH, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Swiss engineering company ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab said it is seeing strong customer demand, particularly from a surge in new data centres being built in the U.S. to ...
The Independent

‘Such a shock’: Readers reveal what it’s like to learn a life-changing diagnosis by text

Our health correspondent’s account of receiving an endometriosis diagnosis via text message struck a deep chord with Independent readers. Following Rebecca Thomas’ account, our community has been ...
The Central Virginian

Mom's Voice Boosts Baby's Speech Development In The Womb

Preemies who listened to voice recordings from their moms had more maturation in key language regions of the brain Fetuses are capable of eavesdropping on mom’s conversations late in pregnancy ...
Hindustan Times

Maharashtra BJP MLA claims sextortion attempt by woman, probe reveals he was a man

A jobless man, 26, was arrested for trying to extort BJP MLA Shivaji Patil by posing as a woman and threatening to leak fake explicit material. A 55-year-old BJP MLA from Chandgad in Kolhapur, Shivaji ...
IEEE

A Near-Real-Time Processing Ego Speech Filtering Pipeline Designed for Speech Interruption During Human-Robot Interaction

Abstract: With current state-of-the-art (SOTA) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, it is not possible to transcribe overlapping speech audio streams separately. Consequently, when these ASR ...
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 ...
American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1932, One of Country’s Most Influential Female Voices—Mentored by Patsy Cline and Helped Put on the Map by Jim Reeves

One of the most influential country singers of the 20th century, the incomparable Dottie West, was born on this very day in 1932. Dottie West launched her career in the mid-1950s. She continued to ...
The New York Times

Did LeBron James Write for a Communist Paper? No, but China Said He Did.

The People’s Daily newspaper put the star player’s name on an opinion article, an example of the political perils the N.B.A. could face in China. By Mara Hvistendahl and Tania Ganguli Mara Hvistendahl ...