IBM just released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact... and efficient speech-language model, designed for multilingual speech recognition and bidirectional speech translation. New #1 on the OpenASR leaderboard! It can even run in your browser on WebGPU, thanks to 🤗 Transformers.jsshow more

We’re releasing access to Speech-1, our conversational speech model... designed specifically for customer phone calls (8khz telephony) to reduce call drop rates.show more

Two free regenerations. You can now regenerate Text to... Speech and Speech to Speech two more times for free on our site. If you're not happy with your first generation, adjust the style settings and regenerate at no additional cost. Read on for all the details:show more

Speech-to-text is solved. Unless you have an accent. Over... 1 million people from 180 countries have spent 580,000 hours speaking with Fluently AI tutors while learning a new language. Nearly all of them have an accent, and transcribing their speech is still hard. So we benchmarked streaming speech-to-text systems on spontaneous, accented English from our learners. Leaderboard and methodology in the thread. English is the easy one. Our learners study 14 other languages too. Working on tough speech problems? DMs are open.show more

JUST IN: Meta AI introduces Voicebox, an all-in-one generative... speech model. Voicebox is an impressive breakthrough! It could do for speech what other models like GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion have done for text and images. Some key details: - Voicebox can synthesize speech across 6 languages - It's a general-purpose model that can perform tasks it wasn't trained on. It can perform noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and more - Supports in-context text-to-speech synthesis and cross-lingual style transfer - It's 20x faster than current models and outperforms single-purpose models through in-context learning paper: blog:show more

Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM) can now run in... your browser w/ WebGPU (+ fp16), meaning up to 8x faster image encoding (10s → 1.25s)! 🤯⚡️ Video is not sped up! Everything runs 100% locally thanks to 🤗 Transformers.js and onnxruntime-web! 🔗 Demo:show more

France President Emmanuel Macron says “Free speech is bullsh*t”... and slams tech companies for not letting them control the algorithms and not censoring what liberals consider “hate speech” “Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech — Free speech is pure bullsh*t — especially when it is guided from one hated speech to another hated speech” Liberals want to control the algorithms and censor anything they consider hate speechshow more

We’ve been working closely with OpenAI for the past... few months to test the new Realtime API. I’m excited to share some thoughts on the best way to productize speech-to-speech for language learning, and announce the first thing we’ve built here, Live Roleplays. 🧵show more

Voice Effect is now available for SwiftUI with built... in emotion recognition. The color theme reacts to the emotion in your speech using local emotion2vec for tone + SamLowe word emotion recognition model.show more

[to the tune of happy birthday] text turns into... speech text turns into speech the model is launching text turns into speechshow more

#StonkingStingray brings us the debut of Myna: Ubuntu’s speech-to-text... agent. Named after the Myna bird (known for its ability to mimic human speech), Myna is an opt-in feature in Ubuntu 26.10, designed to provide speech recognition with clear visual feedback while you speak. Ubuntu 26.10 is now available to download. Learn more:show more

Liberal Senator Anne Ruston says the hate speech bill... has nothing to do with freedom of speech, arguing it was actually designed to target radical Islamic extremism and neo-Nazi groups.show more

Bytedance just dropped realtime voice translation 3x faster than... before, with only a ~3s lag! Seed LiveInterp 2 is a full duplex speech-to-speech model with >70% correctness. When this makes it to video calls, it'll open up previously impossible connections.show more

🗣️ Dictate in multiple languages in Visual Studio Code.... It now uses a multilingual on-device model by default, keeping audio on your device. It can follow your configured language, use your system or browser locale, or automatically detect the language.show more

Just a reminder, Hitler rounded up the jews and... put them in work camps. He didn’t debate them and let them run the media companies because of free speech. Concepts like free speech only work in homogeneous societies.show more

Also, you can now add the ability to talk... to your agents. Cloudflare /voice adds real-time voice to the Agents SDK. ~30 lines of server code to get started, with built-in speech to text and text to speech on Workers AI.show more