About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which ...

The best audio processing library built on Apple's MLX framework, providing fast and efficient text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT), and speech-to-speech (STS) on Apple Silicon. Kokoro Fast, ...

Abstract: Sound source localization in reverberant environments remains a challenging problem, particularly when precise position estimation is required. Existing DOA estimation methods, while ...

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Lego's controversial wave of tech-enhanced 'Star Wars' sets are getting into people's hands, and showing the premium being paid isn't quite worth it. Reading time 3 minutes Ever since they were ...

Bizarre, newly revealed photos show then-Prince Andrew playing with an infant — using a ball made to look like a woman’s breast. The photos show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2011, when he was still a ...

Abstract: With the emergence of audio-language models, constructing large-scale paired audio-language datasets has become essential yet challenging for model development, primarily due to the ...