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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.
Apple AI Research Finds a Cheap Way to Teach AI More Languages
A new technique from Apple ML Research helps AI understand low-resource languages without needing mountains of translated text, and it could matter for hundreds of millions of people whose languages get left behind.
AI That Thinks in Your Language: Big Study Shows Non-English Reasoning Nearly Matches English
Researchers trained AI reasoning models in French, Arabic, Chinese and more, and the results were surprisingly close to English. Here is what that means for the billions of people who do not use AI in their first language.
NVIDIA's Free, Open Voice AI Now Speaks 12 Languages and Responds in Under a Tenth of a Second
A new version of NVIDIA's Magpie text-to-speech model adds Arabic, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese, and runs fast enough on your own hardware to keep voice assistants feeling natural.
Claude Gets a Voice Upgrade: Pick Your Model, Connect Your Apps
Anthropic has updated Claude's voice mode so it can use smarter AI models and reach into Gmail, Slack and Notion, going further than OpenAI's voice feature currently does.
A $400 Million Nonprofit Wants to Build the Public Internet of AI
Current AI is handing out grants, shipping offline devices, and fighting to keep AI from becoming a private club. Here is what it is building, who is paying for it, and why a farmer in rural India is the whole point.
Apple Rewrote Its Music Search Engine to Understand What You Actually Mean
A new AI model buried inside Apple Music can now match your misspelled, foreign-language, or phonetically typed song searches to the right track. Here is how it works and why it matters.