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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 ...
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 ...
GitHub

A generative speech model for daily dialogue.

For the extended end-user products, please refer to the index repo Awesome-ChatTTS maintained by the community. ChatTTS is a text-to-speech model designed specifically for dialogue scenarios such as ...
The New Zealand Herald

Te Pāti Māori refuses to address ‘dictatorship’ leadership claims as co-leaders reveal desire for coalition with Labour, Greens

Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer abruptly left a media stand-up when asked about claims the party's leadership is akin to a dictatorship. Video / Mark Mitchell Te Pāti Māori co-leaders are ...
Roll Call

Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025

So you just have a good time, but I want to thank Secretary Hegseth and General Caine, General Razin Caine, for a reason they call him that. When I heard his name, I said, you're the guy I'm looking ...