Google unveils Beam, an AI-powered 3D video communication platform that creates lifelike remote connections, featuring volumetric video, speech translation, and enterprise partnerships for seamless global collaboration.
Google I/O 2025 unveils Android XR glasses integrating Gemini AI assistant, enabling hands-free help with messaging, translation, navigation, and photo capture by understanding your context through shared vision and audio.
Google introduces NotebookLM, a mobile app that enables users to explore complex topics through offline Audio Overviews, interactive Q&A with AI hosts, and seamless content sharing, revolutionizing on-the-go knowledge acquisition for iOS 17+ and Android 10+ devices.
Project Euphonia is a Google Research initiative working to make speech recognition software more accessible for people with non-standard speech, leveraging open-source research and partnerships to build tailored solutions and empower individuals with communication challenges.
Hedra, an AI video platform startup, raised $32 million to build omnimodal foundation models like Character-3 that generate lifelike character videos from text, audio, and image inputs, empowering creators and marketers to produce narrative-driven content at scale.
Google unveils Gemini AI, enhancing Android accessibility with image descriptions and question answering via TalkBack integration, introducing Expressive Captions with duration to capture audio emphasis, and improving speech recognition with Project Euphonia resources and African language support.
Over 400 music icons including Elton John, Dua Lipa, and Coldplay rallied for UK copyright reform to protect creators' rights, urging transparency and licensing regimes for AI developers using copyrighted material, arguing creative copyright is vital for the industry.
ACE-Step, a groundbreaking open-source music AI, redefines generation capabilities by integrating diffusion, compression, and transformer models, enabling rapid convergence, superior coherence, and advanced control over diverse styles, genres, vocals, and instrumental tracks.
Voice technology's remarkable journey spans from rudimentary speech recognition to cutting-edge AI models that personalize voices, detect fraud, and translate speech with remarkable accuracy, paving the way for human-like virtual assistants and widespread industry integration.
Discover the cutting-edge world of open source automatic speech recognition (ASR) with the dynamic ASR Leaderboard, a Hugging Face Space that ranks and showcases the latest advancements in this rapidly evolving field.