PCMag

This Speech-to-Braille Printer Lets You Talk Your Way Into Labeling Just About Anything

If you have a visually impaired relative, Mangoslab's Nemonic Dot will be an easy way to outfit their household with custom ...
PC Magazine

The Best Speech-to-Text Apps and Tools for 2026

The Best Speech-to-Text Apps and Tools for 2026 With speech-to-text software, you don't need to use your fingers to create digital text. The top dictation software is fast, accessible, and helpful for ...
IEEE

Evaluation of Rust and Java gRPC Services for Automatic Speech Recognition

Abstract: For Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems to effectively translate audio to text, high-performance and low-latency backend services are required. The performance of gRPC services built ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
New York Post

BBC expected to apologize after using doctored footage of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech in documentary: report

The BBC is reportedly expected to apologize after using a “doctored” clip of President Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech in a documentary released last year. BBC chairman Samir Shah will apologize to the ...
GamesRadar+

Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing ...

Embark Studios CCO and co-founder Stefan Strandberg has clarified that the developer didn't use generative AI when making most of its soon-to-be hit extraction shooter Arc Raiders, and the only AI ...
CNN

Hegseth orders that all defense personnel review his speech to top military brass on fitness, standards

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed US military leaders to verify that every member of the department watched the speech he delivered at an unusual gathering of senior officers in Quantico, ...
Aclu.org

Protecting Free Speech in the Face of Government Retaliation

The Trump administration is enthusiastically abusing its power to intimidate anyone who criticizes its policies, and to silence those who won't fall in line. Now, using a long-standing government ...
The New York Times

What to Know About ‘Hate Speech’ and the First Amendment

There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington In the wake of the killing of the ...
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 ...
marktechpost

Microsoft Released VibeVoice-1.5B: An Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that can Synthesize up to 90 Minutes of Speech with Four Distinct Speakers

Microsoft’s latest open source release, VibeVoice-1.5B, redefines the boundaries of text-to-speech (TTS) technology—delivering expressive, long-form, multi-speaker generated audio that is MIT licensed ...