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VITA-Audio: Making AI Voice Assistants Actually Feel Instant

VITA-Audio: Making AI Voice Assistants Actually Feel Instant

Have you ever noticed that frustrating pause when you ask your voice assistant a question? You speak, there's a beat of silence, and then it finally starts responding. That delay might seem minor, but it breaks the natural flow of conversation and reminds you that you're

FastLongSpeech: 30x Compression That Doesn't Murder Your Context

FastLongSpeech: 30x Compression That Doesn't Murder Your Context

Speech models are having a moment and seems like they’re here to stay. They can transcribe your rambling, understand your questions, and even tell when you're being sarcastic. But ask them to process anything longer than a TikTok video and they straight-up collapse. The problem? Speech can

What GenSE Gets Right For LLM-Assisted Speech Enhancement 🎙️

What GenSE Gets Right For LLM-Assisted Speech Enhancement 🎙️

Speech enhancement, the art of cleaning up noisy, muffled, or degraded audio, has traditionally been the domain of signal processing algorithms and convolutional networks. But what if we treated speech cleaning like a language problem instead? That's exactly what researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University and Nanyang Technological University

When Your AI Can't Tell the Difference Between "Fine" and Frustration

When Your AI Can't Tell the Difference Between "Fine" and Frustration

Final Results of SER Accuracy of Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT 4o across the two modalities.

When Your AI Transcription Turns "Tasty Burger" Into "Nasty Murder"

When Your AI Transcription Turns "Tasty Burger" Into "Nasty Murder"

WER vs SNR for Transcription Models