While the Cylons in the original 1978 "Battlestar Galactica" definitely looked like actors in chrome suits, they at least sounded like robots. Cylon Centurions spoke with a low-pitched synthesized ...

The vocoder was never intended to change the music scene. In fact, it wasn’t meant for music at all. Its origins trace back a century, when engineer Homer Dudley at Bell Labs sought a more efficient ...

Los Angeles. 1983. The hip-hop from the East Coast that included Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” and Grandmaster Flash & ...

Sheffield's greatest talent has always been finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, and nothing exemplifies this better ...

Tame Impala have so far released four songs from their upcoming third album, Currents, but they have now finally confirmed a July 17 release date (on new label Interscope) and have released the ...

Noah Britton has been honing his brand of performance punk since 2003 as leader of The Best Thing Ever. He also co-founded the first comedy troupe composed entirely of people with Asperger syndrome ...

Abstract: We present PFluxTTS, a hybrid text-to-speech system addressing three gaps in flow-matching TTS: the stability-naturalness trade-off, weak cross-lingual voice cloning, and limited audio ...

The rise of conversational AI and multimodal streaming applications has led to a significant demand for low-latency Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. This work presents a multilingual low-latency model ...

The remotes that ship with all current-gen Roku streaming players feature voice control, except for the one that comes with ...

This flood is a mixed bag for Apple. The App Store is “not like a typical storefront, where you have shelf space,” said ...

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