Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is now widely deployed, but commercial APIs rarely expose reliable confidence scores. We study a simple entropy-based confidence measure for a ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

In late 2025, Google released MedASR, an open-weight, medical-focused speech-to-text model, as part of its Health AI Developer Foundations program. Unlike general-purpose automatic speech recognition ...

Creating audio content for your business doesn’t mean you have to invest in expensive production tools or hire voice actors. For businesses with an occasional need for audio, free text-to-speech ...

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

The SpeechBrain project aims to build a novel speech toolkit fully based on PyTorch. With SpeechBrain users can easily create speech processing systems, ranging from speech recognition (both HMM/DNN ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

With speech-to-text software, you don't need to use your fingers to create digital text. The top dictation software is fast, accessible, and helpful for anyone who struggles with typing. Justin has ...

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 ...

How do you build a single speech recognition system that can understand 1,000’s of languages including many that never had working ASR (automatic speech recognition) models before? Meta AI has ...