Fact Check: Palestine is not seeking 2 trillion pounds in reparations from the UK, contrary to claims

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas released a statement welcoming the U.K.'s recognition of Palestine. It didn't ...
IEEE

Bridging the Auditory Gap: AR Smart Glasses for Real-Time Speech-To-Text and Directional Audio Visualization for the Hearing-Impaired

Abstract: Sign language and hearing aids are among the most widely used communication support methods for individuals with hearing impairments. However, these methods present certain limitations: sign ...
Foreign Policy

Trump Warns Iran to Make Peace or Risk Further U.S. Strikes

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TechCrunch

Roblox announces short-form video feed for gameplay clips, new AI tools for creators, and more

Online gaming platform Roblox is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed for sharing gameplay moments, the company unveiled on Friday at the Roblox Developers Conference. The company also ...
Scottish National Party

First Minister John Swinney addresses the nation about Scotland’s right to decide – Full Speech

I hope you have all had a great summer and made the most of the outstanding weather. I was lucky enough to get from one end of Scotland to the other. Of course if there’s one place in ...
IEEE

Bypassing Audio reCAPTCHA with Automatic Speech Recognition Models

Abstract: CAPTCHAs are challenges designed to distinguish humans from automated bots. However, with the growing capabilities of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models, these challenges are ...
The Press and Journal

Mum’s emotional tribute to 36-year-old Elgin mother-of-three Hollie Porter

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Android Police

Google Docs on Android might soon uses Gemini for text-to-speech narration

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...
GitHub

VoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild

VoiceCraft is a token infilling neural codec language model, that achieves state-of-the-art performance on both speech editing and zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) on in-the-wild data including ...
Wired

Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), sent a scathing letter to a number of ...
The Press and Journal

What can we expect from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch in Aberdeen?

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GitHub

An Optimized Speech-to-Text Pipeline for the Whisper Model Supporting Multiple Inference Engine!

WhisperS2T is an optimized lightning-fast open-sourced Speech-to-Text (ASR) pipeline. It is tailored for the whisper model to provide faster whisper transcription. It's designed to be exceptionally ...