Machine Learning Research
An update of OpenAI’s speech-to-speech model lets developers tune the tradeoff between speed and reasoning.
Machine Learning Research
Alibaba’s latest open-weights system raises the bar for multimodal tasks in a relatively small model.
Machine Learning Research
Researchers updated the highly responsive Moshi voice-to-voice model to discuss visual input.
Machine Learning Research
Microsoft debuted its first official large language model that responds to spoken input.
Tech & Society
Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.
Machine Learning Research
Even cutting-edge, end-to-end, speech-to-speech systems like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode tend to get interrupted by interjections like “I see” and “uh-huh” that keep human conversations going. Researchers built an open alternative that’s designed to go with the flow of overlapping speech.
Business
Hate talking to customer service? An AI-powered tool may soon do it for you. Joshua Browder, chief executive of the consumer advocacy organization DoNotPay, demonstrated a system that autonomously navigates phone menus and converses...
Tech & Society
Amazon published a series of web pages designed to help people use AI responsibly. Amazon Web Services introduced so-called AI service cards that describe the uses and limitations of some models it serves.
Tech & Society
Most speech-to-speech translation systems use text as an intermediate mode. So how do you build an automated translator for a language that has no standard written form? A new approach trained neural networks to translate a primarily oral language.
Machine Learning Research
In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.
Tech & Society
Even if we manage to stop robots from taking over the world, they may still have the last laugh. Researchers at Kyoto University developed a series of neural networks that enable a robot engaged in spoken conversation to chortle along with its human interlocutor.
Business
A startup that automatically translates video voice overs into different languages is ready for its big break. London-based Papercup offers a voice translation service that combines algorithmic translation and voice synthesis with human-in-the-loop quality control.