IBM has released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact 1-billion-parameter multilingual speech model that ranks first on OpenASR with a 5.52 Word Error Rate.

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...

As Cabinet members snarl at representatives and senators, and social media fills with semiliterate trolling and insults by public officials, we need to remember that rhetoric—the art of persuasive ...

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is developing plans to incorporate facial recognition technology into the smart glasses it produces with Ray Ban and Oakley. The new feature, dubbed Name Tag, would ...

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Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication ...

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United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the ...

Margarita Vladimirova used to work for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. A seemingly minor decision handed down last week by the Administrative Review Tribunal may open the door ...

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel collaborative dysarthric speech recognition system designed to convert dysarthric speech into non-dysarthric speech to enhance the robustness of automatic speech ...