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AI text-to-speech gives Manx a digital voice as speakers fall to 2,200

With only 2,200 people still speaking the Manx language, Chris Bartley is using AI text-to-speech systems to protect and showcase the heritage of endangered languages. Bartley, a School of Computer ...
Futurism

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...
Santa Clara University

Examining the Ethics of Facial Recognition

Xiomara Quinonez ’24 graduated from Santa Clara University with a major in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in Technical Innovation, Design, & Entrepreneurship. Quinonez was a 2023-24 ...
The New York Times

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...
IEEE

Towards Domain-Specific Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition Approach

Abstract: Cross-corpus speech emotion recognition (SER) poses a challenge due to feature distribution mismatch between the training and testing speech samples, potentially degrading the performance of ...
IEEE

MC-Whisper: Extending Speech Foundation Models to Multichannel Distant Speech Recognition

Abstract: Distant Automatic Speech Recognition (DASR) stands as a crucial aspect in the realm of speech and audio processing. Recent advancements have spotlighted the efficacy of pre-trained speech ...