For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

The app, called “Hello,” will use speech-to-text and text-to-speech in the 12 most-spoken language in the public schools, and ...

As consumers fill their carts this season, the travel industry is contending with its own retail rush. But instead of gadgets, gizmos, and goodies, it's all about offers, ancillaries, and airfares.

If you’re like me and love listening to audiobooks, and you’re always looking for clever ways to read books for free, then you should know about this Spotify steal I recently heard about. The digital ...

Abstract: With the emergence of audio-language models, constructing large-scale paired audio-language datasets has become essential yet challenging for model development, primarily due to the ...

Everything beautiful starts with a 'hello.' It’s the first bridge we build with a stranger, the tiny gesture that softens edges, opens doors, and sometimes even sparks lifelong friendships. World ...

Growing up, we have all experienced slightly different types of parenting and have developed individual, unique ideas about how we would parent our own children one day, as a result. When we meet a ...

ChatGPT for Teachers is now available. It features new enhancements tailored to teachers' needs. The experience is free until June 2027. Educators can now try ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of ...

Abstract: Contrastive cross-modality pretraining has recently exhibited impressive success in diverse fields, whereas there is limited research on their merits in speech emotion recognition (SER). In ...

In today’s world of seemingly endless streaming platforms and bundles, shopping for the right one(s) can be a trying ordeal. Since so many have their own expansive media libraries, it can be hard to ...

US-based AI audio-separation company AudioShake has raised USD 14m in Series A funding to advance its mission of “making […] sound as flexible, editable, and programmable as text or images.” The round ...