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ElevenLabs launches Scribe v2 realtime: Ultra-fast multilingual speech-to-text model

ElevenLabs has launched Scribe v2 Realtime, a cutting-edge Speech-to-Text model that delivers human-quality transcription in ...
Slator

AppTek Pioneers Next-Generation Expressive Text-to-Speech for AI Dubbing

AppTek’s sophisticated multilingual TTS model ensures that prosodic patterns are accurately generated, resulting in human-like emotional speech range with granular control over every voice parameter.

Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing ...
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Raila Odinga Death: President Ruto's Address to the Nation [FULL TEXT SPEECH]

President William Ruto has mourned the death of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who passed away on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at the age of 80. Speaking during an address at State House, Nairobi ...
USA Today

Did Ivanka Trump convert to Judaism? President Trump mentions her in Israel speech

Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism after dating her now-husband Jared Kushner. Donald Trump highlighted his daughter's conversion during a recent speech to Israel's parliament. Ivanka Trump recently ...
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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 ...
PC World

Microsoft’s Copilot AI text-to-speech gets new, cleaner ‘scripted mode’

Microsoft’s AI Manager Mustafa Suleyman recently unveiled in a social media post a new feature called “Scripted Mode” in Copilot Labs for turning written scripts into text-to-speech. Copilot Labs is ...
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Italy seeking vessel to convert for underwater surveillance and CUI monitoring

A Damen Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 5009, chartered by the Royal Netherlands Navy in April 2025 for CUI monitoring, similar to Italy's requirements. (Damen) The Italian Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) ...
ZDNet

I tested 3 text-to-speech AI models to see which is best - hear my results

There are several AI tools available that can generate humanlike speech. Some AI voices can whisper, laugh, and perform other expressive feats. TTS tools vary in terms of level of realism and their ...
IEEE

Generative Semantic Communications for Robust Speech-to-Text Translation

Abstract: In this article, we propose a robust semantic communication system for speech transmission, named Ross-S2T, to execute the speech-to-text translation (S2TT) transmission efficiently. First, ...
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Denver Mayor Wants To Convert 4M SF Of Vacant Office

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston pledged to convert 4M SF of the city’s vacant office stock into affordable housing for middle-income residents during Monday night’s 2025 State of the City address. Johnston ...