Face recognition is a dragnet surveillance technology and its expansion within law enforcement over the last 20 years has been marred by systematic invasions of privacy, inaccuracies, unreliable ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

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 ...

In today’s voice-first world, it’s not enough for systems to simply hear what users say. They need to understand it with precision. In high-stakes environments like healthcare, finance, or enterprise ...

Public recognition, though meant to motivate, often creates anxiety and pressure for employees, feeling like a burden rather than a reward. This "paradox of recognition" can harm performance and ...

Speech-to-text used to be regarded as very niche, specifically just used for busy people who needed dictation software, or else had accessibility needs. However, speech-to-text is ...

Trevis Williams is eight inches taller than a man accused of flashing a woman in Union Square in February. The police arrested him anyway. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times Supported by ...

17:00 – 17:40 40 min Huck Semantic Context and Speech–Language Modeling 17:40 – 18:10 30 min Kyu Contextual Biasing and Methods for Leveraging Extended Semantic Context in Speech Systems Arora, ...

What if the race to perfect AI speech recognition wasn’t just about accuracy but also speed and usability? In a world where audio-to-text transcription powers everything from virtual meetings to ...

ABSTRACT: Anomaly detection in complex crowd scenes is a challenging task due to the inherent variability in crowd behaviors, interactions, and scales. This paper proposes a novel hybrid model that ...