speech
23 stories and discussions about speech, aggregated from every source we track.
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet.
<blockquote> <p>In 2015, Reddit closed several subreddits—foremost among them r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown—due to violations of Reddit’s anti-harassment policy. However, the effectiveness of banning as a moderation approach remains unclear: banning might diminish hateful behavior, or it may relocate such behavior to different parts of the site. We study the ban of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown in terms of its effect on both participating users and affected subreddits. Working from over 100M Reddit posts and comments, we generate hate speech lexicons to examine variations in hate speech usage via causal inference methods. We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreased their hate speech usage—by at least 80%. Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown “migrants,” those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage. In other words, other subreddits did not inherit the problem. We conclude by reflecting on the apparent success of the ban, discussing implications for online moderation, Reddit and internet communities more broadly.</p> </blockquote>
Israeli PM attacks critics and calls New York mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘antisemitic’ in inflammatory address
Trump jumpstarts new growth in Slovenia’s ccTLD. The country code domain for Slovenia, .si, has seen a surge in registrations over the past ten days. During a United Nations speech on September 22, Donald Trump…
Learn how researchers found that dogs’ brains use consonants to pick out patterns in speech, and what that could mean for the way your dog hears you.
open-source speech AI platform for organizations that cannot send sensitive conversations to a third party - nanosamurai/nanosamurai
Oído: open-vocabulary speech recognition that fits in a $5 ESP32-S3. 3.7% LibriSpeech WER, no cloud, no NPU. - lokutor-ai/oido
See major speech-to-text engines tested on identical LibriSpeech and Earnings-22 audio with one scorer and paired-bootstrap confidence intervals.
Learn how to pronounce words using Amazon's Polly text-to-speech service and how Cuttlesoft Engineer, Katie, built an app for converting IPA notations to speech.
Learn how to pronounce words using Amazon's Polly text-to-speech service and how Cuttlesoft Engineer, Katie, built an app for converting IPA notations to speech.
The U.S.’s unique position on hate speech regulation stems from more than 100 years of history.
Clarity 1 removes background noise and every other voice from live calls in real time, so voice bots understand callers. Primary speaker extraction for voice agents.
Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo: more emotional nuance, faster responses, stronger voice cloning. Live now in ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and API.
With AssemblyAI's industry-leading Speech AI models, transcribe speech to text and extract insights from your voice data.
Type a phrase and see every other way the same sounds can be cut into English words: kiss the sky → kiss this guy.
AI sovereignty for the world's most trusted runtime. - qxoticai/qxotic
System-wide AI dictation for Mac. Tap fn, speak naturally, and paste clean text or structured prompts into Claude Code, Cursor, Mail, and any app. Mix Chinese and English. Free 8,000 words/week.
Set is a fully offline notes app that keeps every page as a Markdown file on your own disk. It also has local dictation as an opt-in feature. The speech reco…
AI sovereignty for the world's most trusted runtime. - qxoticai/qxotic
A small language-binding bug let questions, negations, and quoted text trigger an AI agent's actions. The repair replaced substring matching with a finite authored grammar and a whole-response fail-closed check.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) | Getty Images On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this morning, NPR reports , marking an escalation in the administration's war on the First Amendment. Politico tried to get to the bottom of it, asking why now ? It reports that "many senior [White House] staff were surprised by the directive" (what's new?), and that it was done "while chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town." Apparently he's been talked down from this kind of sweeping mov … Read the full story at The Verge.