Tencent AI Lab has released Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model (LALM). The model is designed to unify speech processing and language intelligence by directly processing ...

Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African ...

Despite having only five remaining retail outlets, Sears still has an active and widely used Home Services division, complete with an AI chatbot. Unfortunately, that chatbot was reportedly quietly ...

IBM released Granite 4.0 1B Speech on March 6, a compact speech model that halves its predecessor’s parameter count while claiming the top spot on the OpenASR leaderboard. At 1 billion parameters, it ...

According to the 2025 Microsoft AI Diffusion Report approximately one in six people globally had used a generative AI product. Yet for billions of people, the promise of voice interaction still falls ...

Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. By Sheera ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab on Thursday said it has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup working on artificial intelligence technology for audio. Apple did not ...

Abstract: This research explores the integration of advanced artificial intelligence technologies to improve the accuracy and quality of spoken language processing. Speech recognition systems, powered ...

Abstract: Inspired by humans comprehending speech in a multi-modal manner, a growing number of audio-visual speech recognition datasets have been constructed. However, most of these datasets focus on ...