The launch of Grok 4.3 represents a calculated bet by xAI that the market wants specialized brilliance and extreme cost ...

As voice AI becomes more embedded in everyday products, a new category of technology is quietly replacing traditional speech systems. Known as conversational speech recognition (CSR), this approach is ...

Big name standardized assessments—like the SAT, ACT, and many state exams—give test takers the opportunity to listen to a ...

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

More than 1,000 full-time journalists and support staff at the news group were ordered to return to work by March 23 and to resume broadcasting. By Minho Kim Minho Kim has reported on President ...

In an unexpected twist, humans have taken some jobs back from AI. Embark Studios' CEO Patrick Söderlund recently told GamesIndustry.biz that the studio "re-recorded" some of the AI-generated voice ...

Since World War I, mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts have transmitted strings of numbers, strange melodies, and robotic voices across the globe. At the height of the Cold War, listeners heard ...

Last week, the White House's X account shared an unsettling video splicing together footage and audio from Call of Duty with the real-world images of missile strikes. The next day, it posted a video ...

A venerable IRS program called Free File allows 70% of taxpayers to file their taxes for free, just as the name implies. Only 2% of taxpayers used the service in 2024. That is the finding of a ...

Apple CarPlay is quite useful for techie drivers who want to use their iPhones for navigation, entertainment, and other tasks while driving. But even though this car interface is designed to reduce ...

Voice-to-text on Android is really good if you’re using a Pixel, and pretty hit or miss everywhere else. But the new “Wispr Flow” app promises some big improvements to voice-to-text on Android, all ...