What's happening today with Microsoft and AI, then? For once, it's not Copilot being stuffed into something, instead, an interesting new open-source project called VibeVoice. VibeVoice is an entirely ...

Motivation: Scene text editing is a challenging task that aims to modify or add text in images while maintaining the fidelity of newly generated text and visual coherence with the background. The main ...

An iPhone update coming in September is raising alarms among Republicans who say it will disproportionately block conservative fundraising and voter outreach efforts, echoing past Big Tech ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke at a news conference Monday afternoon, addressing reports President Trump is planning to send the military to Chicago. Here is the full text of his remarks. I want ...

Rate cut to “stimulate” jobs? Powell: “while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results from a marked slowing in both the supply of and demand for workers.

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

Surgically implanted devices that allow paralyzed people to speak can also eavesdrop on their inner monologue. That's the conclusion of a study of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in the journal Cell.

Auditory input preference for learning is a very real thing, and that is one of the main reasons why Google's NotebookLM-powered Audio Overviews have slowly become a game-changer for absorbing complex ...

Voice-to-text tools powered by artificial intelligence can make life easier for academics by replacing the keyboard with dictation and transcription. Zhicheng Lin is an Investigator in psychology and ...

American officials are waging a multifront attack on Europe’s approach to free speech. This month, a congressional delegation traveled to Dublin, Brussels, and London to probe and decry European ...

As previewed earlier this year, Gemini in Google Docs will now let you “create audio versions of your documents.” On the web, go to the Tools menu for a new “Audio” option in-between Voice typing and ...