Published on: 2025-04-25 11:30:00
A pseudonymous developer has created what they’re calling a “free speech eval,” SpeechMap, for the AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and X’s Grok. The goal is to compare how different models treat sensitive and controversial subjects, the developer told TechCrunch, including political criticism and questions about civil rights and protest. AI companies have been focusing on fine-tuning how their models handle certain topics as some White House allies accuse popular chatbots of b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 18:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon is best known as an e-commerce giant and then somewhere perhaps slightly further down the list of notable offerings is its Alexa AI voice assistant product, which just got a big intelligence upgrade last month thanks in part to Amazon Nova and Amazon’s investment Anthropic. Now Alexa will have to make space for a new Amazon voice AI sibling: today the company is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 07:30:21
Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority Google rolled out a new feature for Gemini a couple of weeks ago called Canvas. Since I use Gemini every day and pay for the Advanced version, I wanted to see if it actually helps me get things done. I’ve been playing around with it since it came out and have a pretty good idea now of how useful it is, who might like it, and what it’s all about. Let’s get into it. Have you tried out Gemini's new Canvas feature yet? 204 votes Yes 14 % No, not interested 21 %
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 19:50:00
Forward-looking: Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, have developed a brain-computer interface system capable of restoring naturalistic speech to individuals with severe paralysis. The innovation, which addresses a long-standing challenge in speech neuroprostheses, was detailed in a study published in Nature Neuroscience and represents a significant leap forward in enabling real-time communication for those who have lost the a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 07:46:14
An Arkansas law requiring social media companies to verify the ages of their users has been struck down by a federal judge who ruled that it was unconstitutional. The decision is a significant victory for the social media companies and digital rights groups that have opposed the law and others like it. Arkansas became the second state (after Utah) to pass an age verification law for social media in 2023 . The Social Media Safety Act required companies to verify the games of users under 18 and g
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 16:35:23
Introducing Jargonic: The World’s Most Accurate Industry-Tuned ASR Model Introduction Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has made significant strides over the last decade, but most ASR models on the market offer general-purpose transcription. They perform well in clean, controlled environments but break down when handling: Technical jargon & acronyms – Standard ASR models fail to recognize niche terminology used in most industries (i.e., medical terms, manufacturing terms, etc.). Noisy indus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 14:41:05
multinyms multinyms are examples of triple/quadruple/quintuple/sextuple homonyms. According to some definitions, a homonym is a word with the same pronunciation as, but different meaning than, another word. Thus, homonyms come in pairs (at least). However, some remarkable homonyms come in triples, as you may here behold. Triplets: ade, aid, aide aisle, I'll, isle ait, ate, eight aye, eye, I axel, axil, axle bald, balled, bawled bases, basis, basses (distinguishable in careful speech.)
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 07:34:22
Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate toddlers who acquire languages with apparent ease, not adults. Babies start their language-learning journey in the womb. Once their ears and brains allow it, they tune into the rhythm and melody of speech audible through the belly. Within months of birth, they start parsing continuous speech into chunk
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Ethics oversight The study was approved by the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Institutional Review Board (approved protocol s14-02101) which operates under NYU Langone Health Human Research Protections and Princeton University’s Review Board (approval protocol 4962). Studies were performed in accordance with the Department of Health and Human Services policies and regulations at 45 CFR 46. Before obtaining consent, all participants were confirmed to have the cognitive capacity to provide infor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 07:20:48
Smart turn detection This is an open source, community-driven, native audio turn detection model. HuggingFace page: pipecat-ai/smart-turn Turn detection is one of the most important functions of a conversational voice AI technology stack. Turn detection means deciding when a voice agent should respond to human speech. Most voice agents today use voice activity detection (VAD) as the basis for turn detection. VAD segments audio into "speech" and "non-speech" segments. VAD can't take into acco
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 23:01:00
Teleperformance SE, the world's largest call center operator, is implementing an artificial intelligence system designed to soften the accents of English-speaking Indian workers in real-time. The company claims this technology will enhance customer understanding and satisfaction. "When you have an Indian agent on the line, sometimes it's hard to hear, to understand," Deputy Chief Executive Officer Thomas Mackenbrock told Bloomberg. "[This technology can] neutralize the accent of the Indian spea
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Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice February 27, 2025 Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar, and the Sesame team How do we know when someone truly understands us? It is rarely just our words—it is in the subtleties of voice: the rising excitement, the thoughtful pause, the warm reassurance. Voice is our most intimate medium as humans, carrying layers of meaning through countless variations in tone, pitch, rhythm, and emotion. Today’s digital voice assistants lack essential qualities
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 20:23:41
Some see the Oscars as the pinnacle of artistic achievement, a night of cinematic excellence that honours the best of the best. Others view it a TV reality show in which over-paid and over-dressed frenemies hand arbitrary awards to each other for incomparably subjective artistic performances. Whatever your view, there is no doubt that what we see and hear on stage reveals a lot about how Hollywood operates. During the rise of the #MeToo movement, it was frequently claimed that Harvey Weinstei
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 01:53:53
In Brief Meta’s Oversight Board, the company’s independent group created to help with sensitive policy decisions, is preparing to weigh in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent changes to how Facebook, Instagram, and Threads handle hate speech, Engadget reported. Zuckerberg announced an overhaul of its content moderation policies in January, shortly before the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, as part of an effort to allow “more speech” on its platforms. That effort included Meta rolling
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 06:53:53
In Brief Meta’s Oversight Board, the company’s independent group created to help with sensitive policy decisions, is preparing to weigh in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent changes to how Facebook, Instagram, and Threads handle hate speech, Engadget reported. Zuckerberg announced an overhaul of its content moderation policies in January, shortly before the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, as part of an effort to allow “more speech” on its platforms. That effort included Meta rolling
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 09:56:35
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More ElevenLabs, the highly-valued AI voice cloning and generation startup from former Palantir alumni, today launched Scribe v1, a new speech-to-text model that reportedly achieves the highest accuracy across multiple languages. Users can try it here on the ElevenLabs site. According to the company’s benchmarks, it outperforms Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash, OpenAI’s Whisper v3
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 03:00:00
ElevenLabs, an AI startup that just raised a $180 million mega funding round, has been primarily known for its audio generation prowess. The company took a step in another technological direction by launching its first standalone speech-to-text model called Scribe. The startup, valued at $3.3 billion, has aided many other companies in providing speech-to-text services through its vast library of voices. However, the company is now looking to get into speech detection and compete with the likes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 06:52:08
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The past few months have demonstrated how AI can bring us together. Meta released a model that can translate speech from more than 100 languages, and people across the world are finding solace, assistance, and even romance with chatbots. However, it’s also abundantly clear how the technology is div
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 23:39:24
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More New York City startup Hume AI emerged from stealth two years ago and has since raised multimillions in funding on the basis of its technology that creatives emotive AI voices for use in enterprise applications. Today, it is taking its offerings a step further with a new large-language and speech model called the “Omni-capable text and voice engine,” or Octave for short
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 08:04:33
Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump' 2 hours ago Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Reuters Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump." The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them. "We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition
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