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Stanford neuroscientists: Teen mental health problems can be predicted by speech patterns. Here’s what to watch for (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: stanford, speech patterns, mental health

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Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: fish audio, ai voice models, nvidia

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Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: fish audio, ai voice models, nvidia

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Lawyers, teachers, and students face consequences when they use AI to do their jobs. What about politicians? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: artificial intelligence, canadian legislator, ai mistakes

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'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown' (slashdot.org)

2026-07-27 | by Posted | tags: germany, free speech, unix

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Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: “Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech” (futurism.com)

2026-07-24 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai chatbots, bill oliver, new brunswick

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Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: orate, neural text-to-speech, macos

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Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: surveillance, online speech, federal government

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Why do we love music? (2018) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | by Robert J Zatorre | tags: music, human brain, bruce springsteen

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New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes (slashdot.org)

2026-07-20 | by Posted | tags: ai chatbots, free speech, repressive regimes

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Show HN: OfflineTTS — Free browser-based TTS & STT that runs locally (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: offlinetts, text to speech, speech to text

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The state of open source AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | by A Letter Our Cto | tags: open source ai, hugging face, openrouter

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A White House teleprompter operator reportedly won big betting on presidential speeches (engadget.com)

2026-07-16 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: white house, kalshi, cftc

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Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-15 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: model, models, rime

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Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: moonshine micro, raspberry pi rp2350, neural speech synthesis

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Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating (wired.com)

2026-07-10 | by Steven Levy | tags: arbitration, book, meta

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Silent speech with ultrasound (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: model, silent, speech

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Texas Can Keep Enforcing Its Age Verification Law for Mobile Apps, Supreme Court Says (cnet.com)

2026-07-07 | by See Full Bio | tags: court, speech, supreme

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America’s greatest idea is still under threat (theverge.com)

2026-07-06 | by Tc Sottek | tags: amendment, free, free speech

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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics (wired.com)

2026-07-06 | by Maddy Varner | tags: agents, cases, gonyea

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Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: llm, nvidia rtx, tensor parallelism

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Alexa no longer sounds possessed, as Amazon fixes bizarre noises (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: amazon echo, alexa, text-to-speech

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Listening in on the human brain cells that produce speech (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-01 | get Neurophone Brainwave Headset → | tags: brain cells, speech production, human brain

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Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by Devarsh Ranpara | get AI Consciousness Simulation Kit → | tags: consciousness, large language models, human speech

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30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | by Seth Stern | get Freedom of Speech Mug → | tags: free speech, prairieland, nspm-7

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Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-26 | by Petrić Howe | get Chimpanzee Communication Kit → | tags: chimpanzee, speech evolution, nature.com

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Speechify brings voice typing to all iPhone and Mac users (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-23 | by Marcus Mendes | get Speechify Voice Typing App → | tags: voice typing, speechify, apple

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Canonical's Upcoming AI Tool: Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Typing (slashdot.org)

2026-06-21 | by Posted | get Ubuntu Voice Assistant Kit → | tags: canonical, ubuntu, speech recognition

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AI and Brain-Computer Interface Allow Speechless ALS Patient To Work a Full-Time Job (slashdot.org)

2026-06-17 | get Neuralink Brain-Computer Interface → | tags: brain-computer interface, als, speechless

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The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-16 | by Thomas Macaulay | get Neuralink Brain Implant Kit → | tags: brain implant, speech bci, als