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'Maine Kaha Tha...': Asaduddin Owaisi Recalls His 2016 Parliament Speech On Taliban

Speaking on Afghan Foreign Minister's India visit, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi recalled his 2016 Parliament speech on Taliban. Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warns of ‘open war’ if Istanbul ...
marktechpost

Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...
IEEE

Bridging Modality Gap with Large Speech and Language Models for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation

Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-text translation (E2E ST) has increasingly aroused interest and attention recently, attempting to address the problem of data scarcity and modeling burden. Several ...
IEEE

StreamMel: Real-Time Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Via Interleaved Continuous Autoregressive Modeling

Abstract: Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generationfor unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time applications ...
AOL

Is This The Worst 1-Word Text Message You Can Possibly Send?

About a year ago, Isabel Steckel texted her 30-year-old older brother about hanging out the following afternoon. She received a one-word reply: “Sure.” “If you’re bringing ‘sure’ attitude, then let’s ...
GitHub

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear ...