Speechify’s Windows app uses local models for transcription and dictation

Speechify just launched a native Windows app that employs locally stored models to enable dictation and transcription across ...
Interesting Engineering

4-foot-tall robot that can read gestures, facial expressions turned into tourism guide

German computer science and business informatics students put humanoid robotics to the test in the city of Bremerhaven.
GitHub

OpenedAI Speech (Piper-only)

An OpenAI API compatible text to speech server. Compatible with the OpenAI audio/speech endpoint Not affiliated with OpenAI in any way, does not require an OpenAI API Key A free, private, ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims

An adjunct professor at a university in the eastern U.S. who studies online harms to children has left the country because they are not an American citizen and fear being denied a visa or deported. At ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
Reuters

Not all computer code protected as speech, US appeals court finds in ghost gun case

Court rules not all computer code is protected under First Amendment's free speech shield Gun website loses bid to revive lawsuit over ghost gun code Lawsuit followed New Jersey crackdown on ghost ...
VentureBeat

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more ...
USA Today

Bad Bunny blasts ICE during Grammy Awards speech

Bad Bunny gave a powerful speech about the Latino community at the Grammy Awards. The reggaeton superstar used his first acceptance speech of the night to address U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
24/7 Wall St

Microsoft Directed Engineers to Use Claude Code. Is This Another Hit to OpenAI?

Microsoft has committed to invest up to $5B in Anthropic as it diversifies AI bets. Some software stocks have declined as AI coding tools like Claude Code threaten SaaS pricing power. Are you ahead, ...
TWCN Tech News

How to use VibeVoice Text to Speech AI from Microsoft?

In this post, we will show you how to use VibeVoice Text to Speech AI from Microsoft. VibeVoice is a next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) AI framework that converts written text into natural, ...
The New York Times

This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...