People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?

Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and ...

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em-dashes. “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes ...
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 ...
IEEE

Description-Based Controllable Text-to-Speech With Cross-Lingual Voice Control

Abstract: We propose a novel description-based controllable text-to-speech (TTS) method with cross-lingual control capability. To address the lack of audio-description paired data in the target ...
The Independent

Mike Waltz cut off in middle of UN speech: ‘This is the UN General Assembly, it is not a Signal chat’

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz was interrupted during a speech this week and called out for his involvement in a leaked Signal group chat. Waltz spoke to the United Nations General ...
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 ...
Politico Europe

Europe to Zelenskyy: Come to mama

EU LEADERS EMBRACE ZELENSKYY AFTER TOUGH TRUMP MEETING: European leaders are rallying around Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a disappointing encounter with Donald Trump in the White House. The Ukrainian ...