Kokoro 82M is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that beats many TTS APIs while running locally on CPUs, including ...

Former President Joe Biden stood before a South Carolina crowd on Friday and took aim at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

Neurological diseases, including stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson’s disease, often cause dysarthria, which is a debilitating motor-speech disorder that disrupts neuromuscular ...

In a curious historical twist, the “Twelve days of Christmas” are actually the days of revelry that followed the 25th. The preceding period, Advent, was traditionally a fast, not unlike Lent. When and ...

Paradromics Inc., a brain implant company and rival to Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp., has gained US approval to begin its first clinical trial, a key step toward making its technology available to ...

Free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Global Free Speech Summit. There was disagreement among some speakers over the ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s opaque threat to target “hate speech” following the assassination of conservative crusader Charlie Kirk would, if carried out, run up against a litany of Supreme Court ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi pledges to go after "hate speech," saying there's no place for it after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. But that isn't U.S. law under the First Amendment, and Kirk himself ...

Alibaba researchers have unveiled Marco-Voice, a new text-to-speech (TTS) system that brings together voice cloning and emotional speech synthesis in a single framework. With Marco-Voice, Alibaba aims ...

The book publishing industry is undergoing a subtle yet strong transformation. Printed books and digital text are still the core, but spoken words are emerging as an integral part of the experience ...