Abstract: The paper presents a new pathological text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis system that has the ability to control speech severity using latent interpolations. Recognising the difficulty of this ...

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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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at having the U.S. military more quickly acquire new technology.

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 ...

A U.S. district court temporarily halted the University of Texas System’s enforcement of a new free speech law, siding with students who say its limits are overly broad and restrictive. The decision, ...

An emotional speech from a grieving father led LIV Golf star Phil Mickelson to call out the justice system. Mickelson saw the testimony by Stephen Federico at a House Judiciary Subcommittee meeting ...