Crime is down. Migrant workers and customers are staying home. As part of our video series on Trump’s second term, The Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Hackman takes us inside the aftermath. Photo ...

In this paper we describe two families of algorithms for hands-free speech recognition using microphone arrays. Enhancement-based approaches use a cascade of independent processing blocks to perform ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Face recognition is a dragnet surveillance technology and its expansion within law enforcement over the last 20 years has been marred by systematic invasions of privacy, inaccuracies, unreliable ...

Speech recognition in Windows 11 lets you control your PC with your voice, making typing and navigation faster and easier. This guide will show you all you need to know to set it up and start using it ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

Google Colab, also known as Colaboratory, is a free online tool from Google that lets you write and run Python code directly in your browser. It works like Jupyter Notebook but without the hassle of ...

When U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened prosecution of “hate speech” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, many on the political right responded with disbelief. Conservatives and ...

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In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...