Speech recognition and synthesis, music and audio.
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are…
Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but…
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been…
Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems from the conversational data it has.
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one…
The Amazon Polly Generative engine gets a major upgrade: more expressive, more accurate speech with low latency, plus 14 new voices across 9 locales and general availability of Hindi and Finnish. This drop-in upgrade requires no code changes and is now…
Voice agents often wait for an agent's full response before starting speech synthesis, adding latency users feel directly. This post shows how to stream each sentence to a Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI as the agent produces it, and…
Teams deploying custom text-to-speech models on Amazon SageMaker AI often guess at autoscaling thresholds, and a wrong guess either wastes GPU spend or breaches a latency SLO. This post deploys Kokoro-82M as a custom container and derives a measured…
At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models and running on their own infrastructure. Revolut is…
Governments need modern solutions to serve the public while keeping sensitive information under their control. Open models provide a path forward, letting governments evaluate them, adapt them to local languages and public services, run them on infrastructure…
