VALL-E 2 is the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), achieving human parity for the first time. Building upon the ...

Abstract: Deep learning has significantly advanced speech enhancement (SE) by exploiting hierarchical representations to model complex speech patterns. However, deploying these models on ...

Built-in screen readers improve the accessibility of texts and can help students achieve success in building higher-level ...

A simple yet powerful Laravel package for integrating Microsoft Edge Text-to-Speech (TTS) into your applications. It features audio streaming, caching, abstraction, and security controls. This package ...

Microsoft's new gpt-realtime-mini and gpt-4o-mini models in Azure AI Foundry offer 70% lower costs and 50% better accuracy, targeting enterprise voice agents.

Speech-to-speech translation is driving industry innovation as AI, edge, and cloud platforms enable real-time, privacy-aware ...

We present MELLE, a novel continuous-valued tokens based language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). MELLE autoregressively generates continuous mel-spectrogram frames directly from ...

Kokoro Web is powered by hexgrad/Kokoro-82M, an open-weight 82 million parameter Text-to-Speech model available on Hugging Face. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to ...

Abstract: Speech emotion recognition (SER) has broad applications, from aiding individuals who struggle to express emotions to supporting mental health assessments. Detecting negative emotions, such ...

A long-running malware operation known as "ShadyPanda" has amassed over 4.3 million installations of seemingly legitimate Chrome and Edge browser extensions that evolved into malware. The operation, ...