Meta has created an AI language model that (in a refreshing change of pace) isn’t a ChatGPT clone. The company’s Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project can recognize over 4,000 spoken languages ...

Some people struggle with or physically can't read text on a screen. Others might want their computer to read something to them aloud while they do something else. There are plenty of reasons to use a ...

Meta's latest AI output is a major advancement for real-time text and speech translation. On Tuesday, the company released SeamlessM4T: a multimodal model that translates text to speech and vice versa ...

Not so long ago, generative AI could only communicate with human users via text. Now it's increasingly being given the power of speech -- and this ability is improving by the day. On Thursday, AI ...

Using online apps that offer text-to-speech features comes with significant upside — when used in travel, they may be able to facilitate better understanding between two people who speak different ...

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, ...

Typing isn't easy or even possible for everyone, which is why many prefer to simply talk. Speech-to-text software, also sometimes called dictation software, can help ...

New research shows models can be directly edited to hide selected voices, even when users specifically ask for them. A technique known as “machine unlearning” could teach AI models to forget specific ...

Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways." ...