An AI-generated Michael Caine is narrating Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ now

Voice generation company ElevenLabs released a roughly 13-hour audiobook of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ narrated by an AI replica of ...

I wanted Google's secret AI dictation app to replace Wispr Flow, but it couldn't

Google's AI Edge Eloquent offers free offline voice dictation, but after testing it, I found it wasn't reliable enough to replace Wispr Flow.
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Nextcloud CEO: Open source moves from 'a nerdy audience' to the geopolitical stage Frank Karlitschek, head of the German software vendor, talked about the company’s decision to help develop the ...
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ESP32 Speech-To-Text (No API Key Required)

An ESP32 client that captures audio over I2S and posts WAV to a server. A lightweight Flask/Gunicorn server that returns JSON transcriptions via speech_recognition. Designed for deterministic embedded ...
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AI Translation’s Key Benchmark Takes Aim at Low-Resource Languages

The Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT26) has moved into its active evaluation phase, with test data releases and submission windows now opening across several of the conference’s shared ...