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 ...
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 ...
Slator

NVIDIA, Microsoft, ElevenLabs Top New Automatic Speech Recognition Leaderboard

Hugging Face has teamed up with NVIDIA, Mistral AI, and the University of Cambridge to launch the Open ASR Leaderboard, a public benchmark for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The researchers noted ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Slator

Alibaba’s New Speech Recognition Model Pushes Accuracy But Keeps Weights Closed

On September 8, 2025, Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen3-ASR Flash, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system covering 11 languages — as well as multiple dialects and accents — and a range of ...
marktechpost

Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-ASR: A New Speech Recognition Model Built Upon Qwen3-Omni Achieving Robust Speech Recogition Performance

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen3-ASR Flash, an all-in-one automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (available as API service) built upon the strong intelligence of Qwen3-Omni that simplifies ...
Microsoft

Understand your customers better with constrained speech recognition

In today’s voice-first world, it’s not enough for systems to simply hear what users say. They need to understand it with precision. In high-stakes environments like healthcare, finance, or enterprise ...
The New York Times

How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail

Trevis Williams is eight inches taller than a man accused of flashing a woman in Union Square in February. The police arrested him anyway. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times Supported by ...