WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump delivered a forceful defense of his first 11 months in office during a primetime address from the White House, pointing the finger at Democrats for Americans' ...

Most learning-based speech enhancement pipelines depend on paired clean–noisy recordings, which are expensive or impossible to collect at scale in real-world conditions. Unsupervised routes like ...

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a Utah Valley University event on Sept. 10. Experts told USA TODAY colleges and universities face a difficult challenge in wanting to expose ...

From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have recently experienced water shortages. In the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could significantly ...

Abstract: With advances in deep learning, the performance of end-to-end single-task models for speech and audio processing has been constantly improving. However, it is challenging to build a ...

The core innovation behind Canary-Qwen-2.5B lies in its hybrid architecture. Unlike traditional ASR pipelines that treat transcription and post-processing (summarization, Q&A) as separate stages, this ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychiatric condition characterized by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors, with significant barriers to timely diagnosis and effective ...

On June 4, 2025, Microsoft released Phi-Omni-ST, an open-source multimodal language model (LM) designed for direct speech-to-speech translation, i.e. AI live speech translation. Built on the ...

Dozens of A.I.-related regulations enacted in the past two years now lead to fines, incarceration and legal challenges from the likes of Elon Musk. By Tiffany Hsu Pennsylvania’s attorney general ...

Abstract: The speech coding data of different types of speech coding has potential heterogeneous features, and there are linear or nonlinear correlations among the heterogeneous features, so it is ...

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