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Speech generation, voice agents, speech-to-text, and real-time audio models.
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Private Scribe offers 100% offline voice dictation using Whisper AI technology on Windows. This tool enables voice-to-text conversion without internet connectivity.
A Hacker News discussion highlights experiences and challenges in developing voice agents for regulated loan servicing environments. The conversation focuses on practical learnings from implementation.
Samuel is a speech model introduced and discussed on Hacker News, though with minimal engagement so far. It appears to focus on generating playful or silly speech outputs.
A new tool discussed on Hacker News aims to remove the distinctive AI voice from AI-generated texts. The discussion includes community feedback with 8 points and 14 comments.
S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y is a speech-to-text AI assistant hosted on Serf, discussed on Hacker News with limited engagement. The project is available on GitHub for exploration and use.
Modern vehicles, with advanced AI voice and autonomous navigation features, extend beyond traditional driving but, like any autonomous system, can potentially make mistakes or behave in ways unexpected by users. Although providing real-time explanations can a...
FastThaiG2P provides sub-millisecond Thai grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for text-to-speech pipelines (International Phonetic Alphabet and Kokoro-TTS conventions) using a PyThaiNLP-tokenized, extensible dictionary and normalization rules for common Central Th...
Speech-to-speech (S2S) voice agents are increasingly used in enterprise customer care and as daily companions due to their conversational ease. Current benchmarks inadequately evaluate these agents by focusing mainly on tool-calling against databases, missing key performance aspects.
NVIDIA Magpie TTS offers open weights and full deployment control for building low-latency multilingual voice agents. This allows developers to create responsive and customizable voice applications across multiple languages.
A natural field experiment with 70,000 job applicants compared AI voice agent interviews to human recruiter interviews, with humans making final hiring decisions in both cases. The study examines whether AI can reduce variance in information collection and improve organizational outcomes.
New research shows that AI voice synthesis and large language models can automate voice phishing attacks, removing the need for human operators. A large-scale study assessed U.S.
Speech generation, voice agents, speech-to-text, and real-time audio models.