Why Developers Are Dropping Cloud APIs for This Tiny 82M Speech Model

Kokoro 82M is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that beats many TTS APIs while running locally on CPUs, including ...
IEEE

Safeguarding the Integrity of Online Social Networks (OSN): Leveraging the Efficacy of Conv-LSTM-Based Siamese Network to Predict Hate Speech in Low Resource Hindi-English Code ...

Abstract: In the era of free speech and rapid internet expansion, curbing the dissemination of offensive content on social media has become a pressing concern for linguists and regulatory bodies. Hate ...
IEEE

Dots to Dialogue: Enhancing Accessibility through Braille Image-to-Speech Conversion

Abstract: Braille script serves as a fundamental medium of communication for individuals with visual impairments. However, its interpretation by non-experts poses a significant challenge, hindering ...
TechCrunch

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...
GitHub

Fast and High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Flow Matching

Small and fast: only 123M parameters. High-quality voice cloning: state-of-the-art performance in speaker similarity, intelligibility, and naturalness. Multi-lingual: support Chinese and English.
Richmond

In State of the City address, Avula touts rezoning, vape shop closures, new ballpark

“We’d be very happy to never have another January in Richmond again,” a laughing Mayor Danny Avula said Wednesday night.