Statistics from 2015, pre-pandemic, approximate that 7.7% of U.S. children ages 13–17—nearly 1 in 12—have had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or difficulty swallowing. However, a recent ...

Universal 2 represents a major advancement in AI speech-to-text technology, offering unmatched accuracy and flexibility across a broad array of audio processing tasks. Trained on an extensive dataset ...

Despite the hype, speech technology has never lived up to its promise. Speech technology needs to increase its ability to interpret natural language in order to become truly useful. Once this happens, ...

MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The ...

Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the World Wide Web is dead. Instead of an open and accessible global information system, the web is controlled by centralized global data conglomerates, which don’t just ...

OpenAI has introduced a series of AI audio models, fundamentally redefining how voice-based AI can be integrated into modern applications wit&h ChatGPT. These advancements include state-of-the-art ...

Liability Arguments: The suit was brought on behalf of Cerence, a text-to-speech and voice-recognition technology company. It alleges that, after Microsoft acquired Nuance in March 2022, the ...