Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

You can pick a custom keyboard shortcut, and you can decide to simply press that shortcut instead of pressing and holding it.
The New York Times

This visualization tool worked for a 14-year NBA veteran. You can try it, too

Harrison Barnes used a visualization tool to help him improve. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Logan Riely / NBAE / Getty Images Editor’s note: This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s ...
New York Post

Impressive new visualization tool is the ‘Google Maps’ for Ancient Rome, according to researchers

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...
InfoQ

Voices Enables Fast Text-to-Speech for Java Applications

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
The Conversation

Stethoscope, meet AI – helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease

Valentina Dargam receives funding from Florida Heart Research Foundation and National Institute of Health. Joshua Hutcheson receives funding from the Florida Heart Research Foundation, the American ...
News Medical

Evaluating the link between sound quality, speech recognition and cochlear implant-related quality of life outcomes

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated through speech recognition tests, and despite how widespread they are, CI ...
The New York Times

Listen to the Sounds of Climate Change

For the Climate Forward live event, we gathered recordings of a melting glacier, the Amazon jungle and the underwater Arctic, all soundscapes that are rapidly changing. By Evan Roberts Climate change ...
Foreign Policy

Trump to U.N.: ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’

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CNN

Trump’s ‘your countries are going to hell’ speech, annotated

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In a just-about hourlong address to the UN General Assembly, US President Donald ...
PC World

Microsoft’s Copilot AI text-to-speech gets new, cleaner ‘scripted mode’

Microsoft’s AI Manager Mustafa Suleyman recently unveiled in a social media post a new feature called “Scripted Mode” in Copilot Labs for turning written scripts into text-to-speech. Copilot Labs is ...
Cosmopolitan

When and Where You’ll Be Able to Watch Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s New Movie ‘The History of Sound’

Since its premiere at Cannes Film Festival back in May of this year, The History of Sound has generated more buzz than your average wartime melodrama, largely due to its star casting. With Paul Mescal ...
Inc

OpenAI Just Announced GPT-Realtime, Its Most Advanced Voice AI Model Yet

OpenAI launched the Realtime API in beta in October 2024. The API, which uses the same technology as ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode, enables software developers to create voice-based AI assistants that ...