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ElevenLabs has released the forced alignment model Cue, which can pinpoint the exact time point for each character in audio and has already been used in the Scribe speech-to-text model family. Cue covers more than 90 benchmark languages, processes recordings of any length in a single pass, and takes about half a second to align 1 hour of audio on production GPUs; on benchmarks across 29 languages, its accuracy is higher than all alignment tools tested by ElevenLabs. The model is also available s

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Nvidia has released the free open-weight model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, which can transcribe audio in up to 40 languages, and simultaneously launched version 2 of the open speech dataset Granary. The model supports translation between 31 languages and English, processes recordings up to one hour long, and distinguishes up to 8 speakers; Nvidia claims it outperforms competing products on benchmarks such as the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. The model has 30 billion parameters and can run on J

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The research group of MIT Professor Paris Smaragdis is working to give machines hearing capabilities that surpass those of humans, for use in scenarios such as speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring. Their research covers machine learning for sound source separation, intelligent devices that can enhance human auditory environments, and tools that help people understand, manipulate, analyze, and create music. Smaragdis joined MIT in 2025 and holds appointments in th

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Apple is expanding language support for Siri AI in iOS, iPadOS and macOS 27.2, adding French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean; by the end of the year it will also support Norwegian, Turkish, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese, with German not arriving until 2027 at the earliest. Siri AI is still labeled as Beta; version 27.2 will support remembering previous conversations, deeper use of personal data, and integration of photos, calendar invitations and voicemail in iMessage. Siri AI rem

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Astropad Workbench 1.4 is released, adding a built-in terminal that lets users switch between the remote desktop and the terminal without reconnecting, with terminal sessions persisting across devices and supporting voice input for commands. This version also natively supports iPhone Duo and supports drag-and-drop of files between Macs within terminal sessions. Workbench is free for 20 minutes of use per day, with unlimited access at $14.99/month or $79.99/year, and requires macOS 15, iOS 26, or

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iOS 27.2 is officially rolling out after six weeks of testing, bringing multiple new features to iPhone. Siri AI adds the ability to recall past conversations, pull information from more sources such as photos and voicemails in Messages, Excluded Apps access controls, and granular text selection; FaceTime's Dual Capture dual-camera mode supports Group FaceTime for the first time, requiring iPhone 17 or later models. The TV app supports Multiview on iPhone for the first time, allowing users to wa

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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, leading in four of the 9 evaluations: HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench-Science, AA-Omniscience, and AutomationBench-AA. On the Coding Agent Index, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) paired with the Antigravity CLI scores 59, trailing Claude Code paired with Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 62 points) by 3 points. The model has a 1M-token context window, supports text, image, video, and speech input, and is priced at a

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15 Google Student Ambassadors shared the Gemini features they use most, including Study notebooks, which turn course materials into personalized short lessons; Gemini Live, for practicing interviews by voice; Guided Learning, for guided study; and generating study guides and custom quizzes. The student plan offers unlimited uploads of class materials, study notes, and images, and Audio Overviews can turn documents and slides into podcast-style conversations, making it easy to review on the way a

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Google.org is providing $2.5 million in support to the World Bank Group to scale digital public infrastructure for agriculture, with the goal of helping 1 million farmers access key services that improve their livelihoods by the end of 2027. Following the success of a pilot in India, the World Bank Group will build the AI-driven Open Network for Agriculture (ONA) in multiple countries across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, enabling farmers to access digital farmer IDs, cre

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Content creator Kazike has found that his catchphrase of four years, "frankly speaking," now gets underlined and questioned by readers the moment he writes it—"too much AI flavor," "obviously AI at a glance." Over the past two months he has used these four characters less and less, and when he sees them during voice input he subconsciously deletes them. He believes that AI learned language from humans, and now it is humans' turn to modify their own expressions to prove they are human, and he men

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Tesla Vice President Ashok Elluswamy confirmed on the earnings call that Tesla is developing its own AI-based map navigation system, which will launch with FSD v15, integrating data collected by the fleet, personalized route planning, and support for FSD voice control. He called it an entirely new architecture rather than another version of maps; the fleet will automatically collect street information and annotate data such as travel speeds, stop signs, traffic lights, and parking lots, to solve

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Baidu Health announced the upgrade of Wenxin Health Assistant and the launch of the Haoyi Matrix and Health Camera; its AI services have reached over 50 million monthly active users. The Haoyi Matrix includes Haoyi Q&A, Haoyi Appointment, Haoyi Talk, Haoyi Rankings, and Haoyi Reviews. Haoyi Q&A has onboarded over 150,000 real doctors from top-tier hospitals nationwide to provide 24/7 online services, while Haoyi Appointment already covers more than 80% of public top-tier hospitals, offering over

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Several Big Tech employees told Dingjiao One that after their companies included AI usage rate in performance assessments, they began to "perform" AI efficiency gains: some turned a half-hour meeting recording into text and wrote it up as "building a structured voice information workflow," which was rated an excellent case; others padded their weekly reports with AI content, stretching ten minutes of work into half an hour. A company in Shenzhen stipulates that an AI usage rate below 70% incurs

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CNBC interviews show that Kaylee Harris, a customer service representative at a credit card company, can focus more on customers because AI takes over record-keeping and disclosure work, but Shannon, a customer service representative at a Welsh telecom company, says AI-generated ticket records are frequently wrong and can only be rewritten by herself. PolyAI CEO Nikola Mrkšić believes AI voice agents can share the pressure of customer service; Virgin Media O2 launched AI voice agents in Septembe

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AI solutions engineer Yogen Ghodke developed ListenToMe, which uses OCR to extract text from documents and then generates audio via text-to-speech, helping visually impaired students turn study materials into listenable content. The app supports about 30 languages; in the three to four weeks since its public launch, it has gained about 1,600 registered users and about 1,000 people submitting documents, with about 200 new users per day. The free version currently processes a maximum of 250 pages

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Italy's largest real estate platform Immobiliare.it, based on ElevenAgents, scaled from a single conversational agent to an interconnected agent network, increasing lead qualification conversion rate by 3.3x, raising the likelihood of users leaving a phone number for follow-up by 74%, and about 80% of users rated the feature positively. The first agent was deployed on listing pages, responding 24/7 in the local language and summarizing each interaction; subsequently it expanded to agents for pri

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OpenAI's FDE team was established in early 2025, with the goal of filling the deployment gap between model capabilities and customers' real-world constraints; the approach is to first get results into production, then consolidate customized solutions into reusable products. In the early days, every use case required extensive customized integration; after Codex became stronger, the team rebuilt the application on Codex, turning customized applications into plugins and skills based on Codex primi

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