I was carrying something when I received a Slack notification from my boss. I tried to reply while walking, but the message ...

Abstract: LLMs (Large-scale Language Models), such as ChatGPT, have been widely used for a variety of purposes. The current sophisticated LLMs have a voice mode, which allows a user to input and ...

Abstract: In recent years, speech diffusion models have advanced rapidly. Alongside the widely used U-Net architecture, transformer-based models such as the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) have also ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - One of the more prominent conservative voices in the United States was shot and killed on Wednesday afternoon. Activist Charlie Kirk died after he was shot in the neck at an ...

Five years ago, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen devoted her first State of the European Union address to her plans to use the Covid pandemic as a catalyst for positive change. Now she says, ...

The software company ElevenLabs has launched an AI text-to-speech app for audiobooks, enabling writers to sell audiobooks directly to readers. ElevenReader offers authors 60% of every sale, with "no ...

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 ...

The gaming giant announced on Wednesday, Sept. 3, that it will expand age estimation technology to all users who access communication features by year’s end. Chief Safety Officer Matt Kaufman said the ...

Roblox is rolling out biometric age estimation, provided by Persona, for all users who want to access its communication features. An announcement from the social gaming platform, which has been ...

Roblox has temporarily disabled its in-game voice and text chat features in both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, following mounting regional and global scrutiny over child safety. The move, ...

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 ...