XDA Developers

I found a speech recognition model hiding inside VS Code, and it never sends a word to the cloud

I eventually shifted to FreeFlow, which is an open-source tool that I can connect to my local LLM. Now, seeing that VS Code ...

OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time

OpenAI has launched a version of its latest real-time full-duplex voice model as an API, allowing software developers to ...
Slator

OpenAI’s Astra No Superhuman Translator Despite AGI Claims

Third-party evaluators, however, have now run the model through translation tests and found that while Astra is mostly ahead ...

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with smarter speech-to-text and 85+ language support

Google is pushing speech AI beyond basic dictation, with new capabilities designed to handle natural conversations, specialised vocabulary and multiple speakers while making transcripts more useful ...
Ars Technica

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

While we wait (possibly in vain) for Gemini 3.5 Pro to launch, Google is releasing a different model in the 3.5 branch. The company has announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, an AI model designed to ...
Hosted on MSN

Massachusetts mayor seen using translator during court appearance

Massachusetts mayor, Brian DePena, seen using translator during court appearance. At 19, I was forced to marry a stranger and was sexually assaulted every month for 12 years Putin rocked by a 'palace ...
SiliconANGLE

Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI

Wispr AI Inc., the developer of a cross-platform, AI-powered dictation platform, today announced it has raised $280 million in a Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation. Menlo Ventures led the ...
Interesting Engineering

Google’s new sign-language model lets users sign to search instead of typing

Google's SL2T model translates sign-language gestures into text on a smartphone.Google DeepMind Google has developed a sign-language translation model that can convert complex body movements into text ...
Mashable

Google brings ASL-to-text translation to Pixel 11

Talking to your phone has long been a convenient alternative to typing. With the Pixel 11, Google is extending that option to people who communicate through American Sign Language (ASL). Ahead of its ...
Android Authority

Google built a portable AI translator that works offline, and you can build one too

A team of Google engineers used Gemma 4 E4B running on a Raspberry Pi 5 to build an AI translator that works offline. It comes with a touchscreen display, a push-to-talk button, and a knob to change ...
thenextweb.com

Google built an AI translator that runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi

Google and Antigravity built an offline AI translator prototype on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Gemma 4 E2B. No internet needed. Open source on GitHub. Not a product announcement. Google and its ...
Washington Post

The best translation tool while traveling? Your photo app.

At a supermarket in northern Spain, I blinked at the screen in the self-checkout lane, unsure of what the machine was asking me to do. Then, in a snap, I understood. “Skip,” I read on my phone’s photo ...