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Mistral updates its transcription and speech generation models and introduces new tools for building multilingual voice ...

When dogs hear their owners speak, they are listening for consonants in words rather than vowels, a new study suggests, apparently mimicking a similar human bias that is found across many languages.

AssemblyAI published a JavaScript tutorial for a browser voice assistant using its Voice Agent API, WebSocket tokens and AudioWorklet audio handling.

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans' ...

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