Text-to-speech technology has evolved far beyond robotic voices, offering natural prosody, multi-language support, and real-time streaming. With so many platforms in 2026, picking the wrong one can ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic principle that lies at the base of large language models such as ChatGPT.

In the last weeks, Prosody version 13.0.1 was released with a few breaking changes. Lua 5.1 is not supported anymore, for example. I've built luarocks for Lua 5.3, openssl 3.0 and libexpat on my own, ...

Teams from Gallaudet and the Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID) were recently awarded a collaborative EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research ...

Nonverbal messages in speech - emotion, emphasis, conversation action - are encoded by prosody, providing “operating instructions” for words and contextual information. Despite its importance, the ...

From an innovative (and subsequently controversial) opening ceremony to shattered world records across the sports spectrum, the Paris Olympics have marked a celebratory return to the Games we knew and ...

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...

Any time a rebellious cop plays by their own rules, a victim trips while running from a killer, or the hero finds a henchman who wears the exact same size as them, that’s a movie trope. Understanding ...

The publics surveyed are largely skeptical that democracy in the U.S., at least in its current form, is a good example for other countries to follow. A median of four-in-ten across the 34 nations ...

Many processed foods have nutritional value and are safe to eat on a regular basis, unlike ultraprocessed foods. A dietitian shares how to tell the difference. Much of the food we eat has been ...