A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts — and one of ...

Open source TTS models Kokoro, Orpheus, and Piper are tested on symbols, abbreviations, and prosody with CER and MOS results.

Tencent Holdings Ltd. released new AI services that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, the latest in a series of products to emerge from big tech firms since DeepSeek galvanized Chinese ...

I type a lot. Between drafting my articles, writing emails, taking notes, and endless back-and-forth WhatsApp and Slack messages, my keyboard gets a serious workout. After owning a Windows laptop for ...

Microsoft open-sources Harrier embeddings model to boost AI agent grounding, accuracy, and multilingual performance for the ...

Miller Reynolds is a Journalist and Writer with a strong passion for gaming and writing news. Awarded the Excellence in Writing and Production Award while attending Loyalist College, Miller is ...

It allows developers to treat text as a fluid substance that can be recalculated every single frame without dropping a beat.

In an interview at CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box,’ Alexandr Wang, founder, and CEO of Scale AI, shared his insights on the ongoing AI competition between the U.S. and China, and emphasized its critical ...

Numbers are the language of science—yet in research articles, they are often buried within the text and difficult to analyze.

Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...

Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ...