Why do present audio AI fashions usually carry out worse after they generate longer reasoning as a substitute of grounding their selections within the precise sound. StepEnjoyable analysis group releases Step-Audio-R1, a brand new audio LLM designed for check time compute scaling, tackle this failure mode by displaying that the accuracy drop with chain of…
How do you construct a single speech recognition system that may perceive 1,000’s of languages together with many who by no means had working ASR (computerized speech recognition) fashions earlier than? Meta AI has launched Omnilingual ASR, an open supply speech recognition suite that scales to greater than 1,600 languages and could be prolonged to…
Can a speech enhancer educated solely on actual noisy recordings cleanly separate speech and noise—with out ever seeing paired information? A crew of researchers from Brno University of Technology and Johns Hopkins University proposes Unsupervised Speech Enhancement utilizing Data-defined Priors (USE-DDP), a dual-stream encoder–decoder that separates any noisy enter into two waveforms—estimated clear speech and…
Neuphonic has launched NeuTTS Air, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) speech language mannequin designed to run regionally in actual time on CPUs. The Hugging Face model card lists 748M parameters (Qwen2 structure) and ships in GGUF quantizations (This fall/Q8), enabling inference by way of llama.cpp/llama-cpp-python with out cloud dependencies. It is licensed underneath Apache-2.0 and features…
Liquid AI has launched LFM2-Audio-1.5B, a compact audio–language basis mannequin that each understands and generates speech and textual content via a single end-to-end stack. It positions itself for low-latency, real-time assistants on resource-constrained units, extending the LFM2 household into audio whereas retaining a small footprint. https://www.liquid.ai/weblog/lfm2-audio-an-end-to-end-audio-foundation-model But what’s really new? a unified spine with disentangled…
Xiaomi’s MiMo crew launched MiMo-Audio, a 7-billion-parameter audio-language mannequin that runs a single next-token goal over interleaved textual content and discretized speech, scaling pretraining past 100 million hours of audio. What’s really new? Instead of relying on task-specific heads or lossy acoustic tokens, MiMo-Audio makes use of a bespoke RVQ (residual vector quantization) tokenizer that…
Qwen has launched Qwen3-ASR-Toolkit, an MIT-licensed Python CLI that programmatically bypasses the Qwen3-ASR-Flash API’s 3-minute/10 MB per-request restrict by performing VAD-aware chunking, parallel API calls, and computerized resampling/format normalization by way of FFmpeg. The result’s steady, hour-scale transcription pipelines with configurable concurrency, context injection, and clear textual content post-processing. Python ≥3.8 prerequisite, Install with: Copy…
TwinMind, a California-based Voice AI startup, unveiled Ear-3 speech-recognition mannequin, claiming state-of-the-art efficiency on a number of key metrics and expanded multilingual help. The launch positions Ear-3 as a aggressive providing towards present ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) options from suppliers like Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Eleven Labs, Otter, Speechmatics, and OpenAI. Key Metrics Metric TwinMind Ear-3 Result…
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen workforce unveiled Qwen3-ASR Flash, an all-in-one automated speech recognition (ASR) mannequin (obtainable as API service) constructed upon the sturdy intelligence of Qwen3-Omni that simplifies multilingual, noisy, and domain-specific transcription with out juggling a number of techniques. Key Capabilities Multilingual recognition: Supports automated detection and transcription throughout 11 languages together with English and…
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has launched OLMoASR, a set of open automated speech recognition (ASR) fashions that rival closed-source programs comparable to OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond simply releasing mannequin weights, AI2 has revealed coaching information identifiers, filtering steps, coaching recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually clear transfer in the ASR area. This makes OLMoASR one…