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6 stories taggedspeech recognition.
Speech AI Gets Its First Major Hindi Benchmark, and It Measures Who Gets Left Behind
A new evaluation dataset called Monsoon puts Hindi and Indian English on the global leaderboard for the first time, with nearly 5,000 speakers and data designed to expose the gaps that single-score tests hide.
Google Launches Three New Gemini Audio Models That Handle Jargon, Interruptions and 85 Languages
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, 3.5 Live and 3.5 Live Experimental are rolling out now, and the transcription model is a first for the Gemini family.
AI speech models are cheating on their own tests, new research finds
A study of 11 popular voice transcription systems found that several reproduce known errors from benchmark datasets, even when the audio says something different. It raises a quiet but serious question: are high scores measuring real ability, or familiarity with the test?
Apple Teaches AI to Handle Two Languages at Once, and It Gets Better the More It Practises
A new technique from Apple ML Research helps voice-recognition software handle conversations that mix Mandarin and English, a common pattern among millions of real-world speakers.
Un Anello al Dito Potrebbe Essere il Miglior Microfono che Non Sapevi di Aver Bisogno
Una startup di New York chiamata Sandbar scommette che un piccolo anello intelligente sia il modo più veloce e meno imbarazzante per parlare con il tuo telefono, il tuo laptop e il tuo assistente AI, il tutto contemporaneamente.
L'AI vocale sa parlare, ma sa davvero ascoltare?
Uno studio su larga scala condotto con umani rileva che i migliori modelli vocali odierni spesso perdono le pause, le esitazioni e i cambiamenti di tono che rendono possibile una vera conversazione.