Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...

This challenge calls for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems to augment speech data for the downstream task, personalized speech enhancement (PSE), as part of the Generative Data Augmentation ...

What if you could replicate any voice, yes, any voice—with just a few audio samples? In this overview, Sam Witteveen explores how the Qwen 3 TTS AI model has shattered barriers in voice cloning and ...

Neurological diseases, including stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson’s disease, often cause dysarthria, which is a debilitating motor-speech disorder that disrupts neuromuscular ...

While recent large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) models have achieved significant progress, they still fall shorts in speech quality, similarity, and prosody. Considering that speech intricately ...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — and even criminalize — what their critics have to say. By ...

Alibaba researchers have unveiled Marco-Voice, a new text-to-speech (TTS) system that brings together voice cloning and emotional speech synthesis in a single framework. With Marco-Voice, Alibaba aims ...

On August 26, 2025, Microsoft released VibeVoice, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model built for long-form, multi-speaker audio — think scripted podcasts, training modules, and dialogue-heavy ...

President Trump signed an executive order aimed at prosecuting flag burning, despite existing Supreme Court precedent protecting it as free speech. The Supreme Court's 1989 ruling in Texas v. Johnson ...

Confronting an authoritarian strongman about his war crimes, Mon Mothma’s address to the Galactic Senate sees the future leader of the Rebel Alliance throw down the gauntlet against Emperor Palpatine.

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