Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The author is director of The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education: ...

President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy. He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer. “I think she steams them,” he offered at one point ...

Abstract: Given the widespread dissemination of digital audio and the advancements in speech synthesis technologies, protecting audio copyright has become a critical issue. Although watermarks play an ...

Abstract: In recent years, Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology has advanced, with research focusing on multi-speaker TTS capable of voice cloning. In 2023, Wang et al. introduced Vall-E, a ...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this research is to develop a speech synthesis model tailored towards Nigerian languages by leveraging natural language processing tool such as FastSpeech 2 and meta-tts for ...

The new Texas A&M University System, which requires professors to obtain approval from the school president to discuss certain race and gender topics, has been met with opposition from faculty and ...

The University of Missouri is investigating the use of the phrase "From the river to the sea" by Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine as a potential Title VI violation. The student group is ...

Speech synthesis has been around since roughly the middle of the 20th century. Once upon a time, it took remarkably advanced hardware just to even choke out a few words. But as [atomic14] shows with ...

The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. is a news writer who ...

Google announced a major update to voice search that uses AI to make it faster and more accurate, calling it a new era. Google announced an update to its voice search, which changes how voice search ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A U.S. district court judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday that prevents the University of Texas System from enforcing policies that a coalition of students claim restrict ...

A federal judge’s ruling Tuesday temporarily blocks the University of Texas System from implementing parts of a new state law that limits where and when students can engage in expressive activities on ...