Seminar Talks on Applications for Research and Teaching with Artificial Intelligence (START AI). START AI is a talk series ...

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents ...

Celeste Rodriguez Louro receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Google, including for the research in this article. Ben Hutchinson is employed by Google. Glenys Dale Collard receives ...

Voice AI company Wispr’s dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of usage, an average user writes more than 50% of their characters through the ...

The Best Speech-to-Text Apps and Tools for 2026 With speech-to-text software, you don't need to use your fingers to create digital text. The top dictation software is fast, accessible, and helpful for ...

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 ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies at a Senate subcommittee hearing on June 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/TNS) Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi pledges to go after "hate speech," saying there's no place for it after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. But that isn't U.S. law under the First Amendment, and Kirk himself ...

17:00 – 17:40 40 min Huck Semantic Context and Speech–Language Modeling 17:40 – 18:10 30 min Kyu Contextual Biasing and Methods for Leveraging Extended Semantic Context in Speech Systems Arora, ...