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 ...
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 ...
Windows Report

Set Up Speech Recognition in Windows 11 Step by Step

Speech recognition in Windows 11 lets you control your PC with your voice, making typing and navigation faster and easier. This guide will show you all you need to know to set it up and start using it ...
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 ...
Business Wire

Deepgram Launches Flux - The World’s First Conversational Speech Recognition Model

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VapiCon 2025 – Deepgram, the world’s most realistic and real-time Voice AI platform, today announced from VapiCon 2025 the launch of Flux, the world’s first ...
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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

Building a Speech Enhancement and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Pipeline in Python Using SpeechBrain

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Enhanced AI Speech Recognition of African American English (AAE)

Howard University and Google Research recently released data which can be used by artificial intelligence developers to improve the experience of Black people using automatic speech recognition (ASR) ...