How the auditory cortex syncs with behavior to help the brain become a better listener

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...
Radio World

Audio Processing From a Musician’s Perspective

Musicians and recording engineers spend months, sometimes years and a ton of cash producing a record that not only accurately ...
Slator

Uni and Startup Explore How to Preserve Voice, Emotion in AI Speech Translation

HKUST and Soul AI researchers unveil a system that preserves the speaker’s voice, tone, and emotion in AI live speech ...
Tech Digest

AI-generated videos: what to know before using OpenAI’s Sora or Meta’s Vibes

Cybernews' Jurgita Lapienytė explains how to spot a deepfake on the latest AI-video platforms, such as OpenAI's ...
IEEE

Module-Based End-to-End Distant Speech Processing: A case study of far-field automatic speech recognition

Abstract: Distant speech processing is a critical downstream application in speech and audio signal processing. Traditionally, researchers have addressed this challenge by breaking it down into ...
Medical Xpress

AI chatbots often outperform doctors in diagnosis, but need safeguards to avoid overprescribing

If you've been to a medical appointment recently, you may have already interacted with AI. As you describe your symptoms to the doctor, they may ask your permission to use an "AI scribe" to convert ...
Times of San Diego

Chula Vista receives $8.6 million to convert Palomar Motel into low-income housing

Palomar Motel in Chula Vista, which is being converted to low-income housing. (Photo courtesy of Google Street View) Chula Vista has been awarded $8.61 million in Homekey+ funding from the California ...
blockclubchicago

Plan To Convert Pittsfield Building Offices Into Apartments Gets City Council OK

The Pittsfield Building, 55 E. Washington St., is a Loop landmark known for its art deco design. Credit: Wikimedia Commons DOWNTOWN — Another project that’s converting office space into residences is ...
Fox2Now St. Louis

Investor plans to convert the Armory into data center

ST. LOUIS – A real estate investor plans to convert the Armory complex in Midtown into a data center. According to our partners at the Post Dispatch, Rod Thomas of Creve Coeur-based Tri-Star ...
eeworldonline

What are attention mechanisms, and how do they work in speech and audio processing?

Attention mechanisms are very useful innovations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) for processing sequential data, especially in speech and audio applications. This FAQ talks about how ...
The Motley Fool

Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta Just Delivered Half a Trillion Dollars Worth of Great News for Nvidia Investors

Prior to the launch of ChatGPT, big tech's capital expenditures were around $100 billion annually. That figure is expected to rise to almost $500 billion by 2026 as the rapid buildout of data center ...
Variety

ABC News Hopes True-Crime Stories Will Arrest Audio Fans

ABC News is digging deeper into true-crime stories to keep fans listening to its audio offerings. Two new offerings show the new lean toward tales of law and order. ABC News correspondent John ...