AI-powered text-to-speech (TTS) has evolved far beyond the robotic voices many people associate with early GPS devices or screen readers. Modern AI voices sound fluid, expressive, and surprisingly ...

To help you keep tabs on when and where all of the newest events will air, here’s a look at the full week two schedule for the 2026 Olympics, from Monday, February 9 to Sunday, February 15. (For week ...

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A powerful, easy-to-use React Native library for real-time speech-to-text conversion. Built with the New Architecture (Turbo Modules) for optimal performance on both iOS and Android.

PDFgear announces the launch of TextaVoice ( TextaVoice.com ), a completely free text-to-speech tool that turns text into ...

Small and fast: only 123M parameters. High-quality voice cloning: state-of-the-art performance in speaker similarity, intelligibility, and naturalness. Multi-lingual: support Chinese and English.

Abstract: Semantic communications have been utilized to execute numerous intelligent tasks by transmitting task-related semantic information instead of bits. In this article, we propose a ...

In late 2025, Google released MedASR, an open-weight, medical-focused speech-to-text model, as part of its Health AI Developer Foundations program. Unlike general-purpose automatic speech recognition ...