On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ...

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ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, is making its Reader app available across the world with support for 32 languages. The app, first released in ...

In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T, that can translate and transcribe close to 100 languages across text and speech ...

They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now. Meta has built AI models that can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages—a tenfold increase on what’s ...

Machine learning is bringing us closer to a Babel-fish-style universal translation device. Meta has released a new AI model that can translate speech from 101 different languages. It represents a step ...