Meta’s Omnilingual ASR Covers 1,600 Languages, Including Rare Indian Dialects

Meta’s FAIR team unveiled Omnilingual ASR—an open-weight automatic speech recognition suite that supports over 1,600 languages, including 500 low-resource languages and a raft of long-tail Indian ...

Coders paired with bot buddies work fast, but take too many shortcuts

Pair programming is a common practice in developer circles, though it did not become a formal "pattern" until the turn of this century. The practice is credited with producing better quality code, ...
IEEE

AVE Speech: A Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset for Speech Recognition Integrating Audio, Visual, and Electromyographic Signals

Abstract: The global aging population faces considerable challenges, particularly in communication, due to the prevalence of hearing and speech impairments. To address these, we introduce the AVE ...
Jewish Insider

Harmeet Dhillon says DOJ will fight antisemitism through law, not speech codes

In an interview with JI, the senior DOJ official said that while combating antisemitism is a priority, the Justice Department is focused on the Trump administration’s battle with DEI When Harmeet ...
Slator

NVIDIA, Microsoft, ElevenLabs Top New Automatic Speech Recognition Leaderboard

Hugging Face has teamed up with NVIDIA, Mistral AI, and the University of Cambridge to launch the Open ASR Leaderboard, a public benchmark for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The researchers noted ...
IEEE

Speech Few-Shot Learning for Language Learners’ Speech Recognition

Abstract: This paper reports how speech recognition accuracy can be improved using the speech few-shot in-context learning capabilities of a multimodal foundation model when applied to the speech of ...