Baidu unveils proprietary ERNIE 5 beating GPT-5 performance on charts, document understanding and more

While Baidu did not release full benchmark details or raw scores publicly, its performance positioning suggests a deliberate ...

Gemini Live’s new voice tricks make your AI chats sound more human

Google is rolling out new model updates for Gemini Live on Android and iOS, giving its voice assistant more natural speech, ...

Murf AI Launches Falcon, the Text-to-Speech API That Outperforms ElevenLabs with 55ms Model Latency Across 35+ Languages

Murf Falcon text-to-speech API enables developers to seamlessly integrate high-quality AI voices into applications, voice agents, and automated systems, while Murf Studio and Murf Dubbing empower ...

Google’s new ‘Ask’ tool lets you talk with Photos and YouTube videos

Google’s new “Ask” feature brings Gemini AI into everyday apps like Photos and YouTube, letting you chat with your own ...

Google's Private AI Compute promises good-as-local privacy in the Gemini cloud

Move AI functionality back to the cloud, while maintaining the privacy of on-device processing. Can Google have it both ways?
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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 ...

Google’s New AI Studio Vibe Coding Push : Create Full-Stack Apps in a Weekend

Build full-stack AI apps faster in Google AI Studio, with React templates, Gemini image and speech, plus monitoring tools.