As Windows Turns 40, It’s ‘Evolving’ Into a Bloated AI Slop Machine

Microsoft’s bread-and-butter operating system, Windows, is turning the ripe age of 40 on Nov. 20. Like many folk who are busy ...

5 Free Apps You Should Install As Soon As You Upgrade To Windows 11

We could write a book about all the apps worth downloading on Windows 11, but we'll restrain ourselves and keep it limited to ...

Did Microsoft's Copilot ad just prove AI isn't ready for your PC settings?

Gaffe: The new Microsoft Copilot ad for Win 11 shows the AI assistant suggesting an already-selected setting and failing to find the proper text-size option.

Paulatuk, N.W.T., wants to fix drafty homes as part of its net-zero goal

The Paulatuk Energy Working Group has a goal of becoming carbon neutral. But everyone – from residents to those leading the ...

Microsoft announces Project Gecko to make AI more inclusive and culturally aware

Microsoft announces Project Gecko, a new initiative to build inclusive AI systems that understand local languages and ...
IEEE

Improving Accented Speech Recognition Using Data Augmentation Based on Unsupervised Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Abstract: This paper investigates the use of unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) as a data augmentation method to improve accented speech recognition. TTS systems are trained with a small ...
GitHub

trisun-pdf-to-text-offline-installer-for-windows

TriSun PDF to Text software for Windows 10 11, Download TriSun PDF to Text for Windows 11, TriSun PDF to Text alternative to Microsoft Word, TriSun PDF to Text direct download link, TriSun PDF to Text ...
appuals.com

How to Fix Blurry or Distorted Text on Windows?

Windows uses a feature called DPI scaling to adjust how text and interface elements appear on screens with different pixel densities. When this scaling is not applied correctly, such as when certain ...
IEEE

Joint End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding and Automatic Speech Recognition Training Based on Unified Speech-to-Text Pre-Training

Abstract: Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) approaches optimize the system in an end-to-end (E2E) manner. This approach offers two key advantages. Firstly ...
The Straits Times

S’pore-developed app helps deaf people take and make calls using speech-to-text technology

SINGAPORE – For most of his life, 46-year-old Alfred Yeo has ignored all calls made to his phone. As he has been deaf since the age of five, even straightforward interactions with most people, such as ...
Lawton Constitution

Text of Ten Bear's speech

"My heart is filled with joy when I see you here, as the brooks fill with water when the snows melt in the spring; and I feel glad, as the ponies do when the fresh grass starts in the beginning of the ...