Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup

Usage of voice AI in sales, marketing, customer support, and consumer applications has shot up in the last few years. As a ...
IEEE

End-to-End Target Speaker Speech Recognition Using Context-Aware Attention Mechanisms for Challenging Enrollment Scenario

Abstract: This paper presents a novel streaming end-to-end target-speaker speech recognition that addresses two critical limitations in systems: the handling of noisy enrollment utterances and ...
The Washington Post

Trump finally confirms using vulgar slur about several countries in 2018

After years of denials, President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday night that he used the phrase “shithole countries” in 2018 to insult several countries with majority non-White populations, including ...
The Nation

How Trump Is Using Claims of Antisemitism to End Free Speech

Trump’s urge to suppress free speech may be about Israel today, but count on one thing: It will be about something else tomorrow. President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General ...
TechCrunch

Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension

Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice ...
Deadline.com

Eddie Murphy On What Robin Williams Told Him Before Oscars Speech Calling Out Academy For Lack Of Recognition Of Black Actors: “Why Go There?”

Eddie Murphy is recalling his 1988 Oscars speech, in which he called out the Academy for its lack of recognition of Black actors, and what Robin Williams told him before he took the stage. In a new ...
VentureBeat

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 OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...
Windows Report

Set Up Speech Recognition in Windows 11 Step by Step

Speech recognition in Windows 11 lets you control your PC with your voice, making typing and navigation faster and easier. This guide will show you all you need to know to set it up and start using it ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...
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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

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GitHub

[FEATURE] Add Face Recognition Feature Using Python and OpenCV

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm building a Python-based application that needs to identify people using a webcam feed. I'm frustrated that there's no built-in ...