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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Feb 26, 2025
Apple's text-to-speech tool seems to beleive the words "racist" and "Trump" are similar. Users across social media have recently shared videos from their iPhones, which show the word “racist” being transcribed as "Trump". It didn't happen...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Nov 22, 2024
WhatsApp just received a long overdue messaging transcript feature. Incidentally, Apple introduced a similar feature along with iOS 17 during last year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, so it's nice to see WhatsApp close the gap.
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Oct 18, 2016
“Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you.” That is likely Microsoft’s mantra, as its research wizards have reached a milestone in speech recognition, with a word error rate (WER) of just 5.9 percent. That...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 24, 2015
Visual voicemail is a wonderful thing...in theory. The idea of being able to read our voicemails in text form is both convenient and awesome, though in practice, it's not usual to stare at a jumble of words trying to figure out if the...
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