How AI is changing voice surveillance in financial services

How is AI redefining the way financial firms supervise voice communications? Explore how firms are transforming voice surveillance with more accurate transcription, contextual risk detection and ...

Linguistic reason Barbie's iconic speech became a cultural moment, and what Aristotle has to do with it

Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something ...
Bianet

First day of Disability-Focused Journalism Workshop: 'We must question the language we construct'

The first day of the workshop organized by the IPS Communication Foundation/Atölye BİA has been completed. The workshop ...
BMJ

Red flags for speech impairment: who should we refer to speech therapy?

Background and objective Speech disorders are a common presenting concern to paediatricians. Yet evidence to guide detection and speech sound therapy referral of cases at risk for persistent speech ...

Lenore Kandel: The poet whose work dismantled the counterculture

One of the few women in the Beat scene, Kandel was heard and respected, before controversy over her “holy erotica” caught the ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Developers Are Dropping Cloud APIs for This Tiny 82M Speech Model

Kokoro 82M, a compact text-to-speech (TTS) model with just 82 million parameters, is proving that size isn’t everything in speech synthesis. Developed to run entirely on local hardware, this ...
Mashable

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...
SiliconANGLE

Mistral releases an open-weights ‘speaking’ AI model with Voxtral TTS

The Paris-based Mistral AI SAS today announced the release of Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech artificial intelligence model aimed at unseating the best-known and most powerful voice models on ...
VentureBeat

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.
TechCrunch

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...
Fox News

Trump shatters Clinton's 26-year-old record for longest State of the Union address

President Donald Trump now holds the modern-era record for the longest State of the Union address, surpassing President Bill Clinton’s 2000 speech. The State of the Union is the president’s annual ...
9to5Mac

New Apple-backed AI model can generate sound and speech from silent videos

The new model, called VSSFlow, leverages a creative architecture to generate sounds and speech with a single unified system, with state-of-the-art results. Watch (and hear) some demos below. Currently ...