The global speech and voice recognition market is projected to grow from $20 billion in 2023 to over $53 billion by 2030. That number sounds impressive until you look at how the industry is actually ...

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IBM has released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact 1-billion-parameter multilingual speech model that ranks first on OpenASR with a 5.52 Word Error Rate.

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 ...

Speechmatics today launched its new Arabic–English bilingual model, a single production-ready model that handles Arabic dialects and English simultaneously. It can be deployed on-premises and ...

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A former NPR radio host has sued Google and its parent company Alphabet, alleging that the tech giant used his voice for its NotebookLM AI product. David Greene, former host of NPR's Morning Edition ...

An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is considering launching the feature ‘during a dynamic political environment.’ An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...