VentureBeat

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more ...
Microsoft

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

According to the 2025 Microsoft AI Diffusion Report approximately one in six people globally had used a generative AI product. Yet for billions of people, the promise of voice interaction still falls ...
Forbes

The FBI Is Using Facial Recognition To Identify ICE Protestors In Social Media Videos

The FBI has charged multiple people with crimes like vandalism after determining their identities using the controversial technology, according to court records. ICE protesters are being monitored by ...
Geeky Gadgets

5 Best Free Speech-to-Text APIs in 2025 Compared & Tested

What if you could transform hours of audio into precise, actionable text with just a few lines of code? In 2025, this is no longer a futuristic dream but a reality powered by innovative speech-to-text ...
Aclu.org

Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell

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 ...
TechRepublic

Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages

Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. C’mon in. Meta has unveiled Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), an AI system that can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource ...
VentureBeat

Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

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 ...
Windows Report

Set Up Speech Recognition in Windows 11 Step by Step

Speech recognition in Windows 11 lets you control your PC with your voice, making typing and navigation faster and easier. This guide will show you all you need to know to set it up and start using it ...
IEEE

FPGA Implementation of PoolFormer Network Using Python-Driven High-Level Synthesis Framework for Edge-AIoT Speech Recognition

Abstract: This brief presents an edge-AIoT speech recognition system, which is based on a new spiking feature extraction (SFE) method and a PoolFormer (PF) neural network optimized for implementation ...
Business Wire

Deepgram Launches Flux - The World’s First Conversational Speech Recognition Model

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VapiCon 2025 – Deepgram, the world’s most realistic and real-time Voice AI platform, today announced from VapiCon 2025 the launch of Flux, the world’s first ...
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Netanyahu attacks Palestinian recognition as dozens walk out of UN speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the recognition of a Palestinian State by multiple Western countries during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu labelled the ...