Attorney General Pam Bondi pledges to go after "hate speech," saying there's no place for it after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. But that isn't U.S. law under the First Amendment, and Kirk himself ...

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...

In today’s voice-first world, it’s not enough for systems to simply hear what users say. They need to understand it with precision. In high-stakes environments like healthcare, finance, or enterprise ...

17:00 – 17:40 40 min Huck Semantic Context and Speech–Language Modeling 17:40 – 18:10 30 min Kyu Contextual Biasing and Methods for Leveraging Extended Semantic Context in Speech Systems Arora, ...

To some in the U.K., the criticisms from the American right over arrests of people for hate speech seem hypocritical, given President Trump’s attacks on those who disagree with him. By Mark Landler ...

Mistral AI has released Voxtral, a family of open-weight models—Voxtral-Small-24B and Voxtral-Mini-3B—designed to handle both audio and text inputs. Built on top of Mistral’s language modeling ...

You can interact with your Windows device using just your voice, without the need for a keyboard or mouse. After years of integrating voice control into Microsoft software updates, we've finally ...

Abstract: This tutorial provides an overview of the basic theory of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as originated by L.E. Baum and T. Petrie (1966) and gives practical details on methods of implementation ...

These days, people can have natural conversations with their phones as if they were chatting with a friend. That’s thanks to the rapid evolution of voice recognition AI (artificial intelligence) ...

What if the race to perfect AI speech recognition wasn’t just about accuracy but also speed and usability? In a world where audio-to-text transcription powers everything from virtual meetings to ...

ABSTRACT: Anomaly detection in complex crowd scenes is a challenging task due to the inherent variability in crowd behaviors, interactions, and scales. This paper proposes a novel hybrid model that ...