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Roblox AI age tool will estimate every user’s age, but analysts question upside

Roblox has unveiled a major new safety system that will use artificial intelligence to estimate the age of every user on the platform.
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 ...
IEEE

Decoding Knowledge Transfer for Neural Text-to-Speech Training

Abstract: Neural end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) is superior to conventional statistical methods in many ways. However, the exposure bias problem, that arises from the mismatch between the training ...
IEEE

SC-CNN: Effective Speaker Conditioning Method for Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Systems

Abstract: This letter proposes an effective speaker-conditioning method that is applicable to zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZSM-TTS) systems. Based on the inductive bias in the speech ...
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Raila Odinga Death: President Ruto's Address to the Nation [FULL TEXT SPEECH]

President William Ruto has mourned the death of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who passed away on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at the age of 80. Speaking during an address at State House, Nairobi ...
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 ...
Daily Mail

'In a liberal democracy such as ours, the right to offend is precious': Judge spells out importance of free speech as he overturns conviction of man who burnt the Koran

Campaigners hailed a major victory for free speech yesterday as a man who burned a Koran saw his conviction overturned. Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted ‘f*** Islam’ as he set fire to the text outside the ...