Abstract: In spite of the fact that Braille is an important channel of communication for the visually impaired, conventional systems require specialized training and expensive devices that are hard to ...

Pocket TTS delivers high-quality text-to-speech on standard CPUs. No GPU, no cloud APIs. It is the first local TTS with voice ...

Google on Sunday announced a new open standard called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference. The standard, developed ...

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...

Even as a hardcore Apple fan, I can appreciate a brilliant product like Google Lens. It's such a simple idea and fantastically executed concept that you wonder how people ever searched before — and ...

Abstract: Most existing translation studies have concentrated on text-to-text or speech-to-text tasks, whereas text-to-speech translation (T2ST) remains relatively underexplored despite its crucial ...

In the arena of digital accessibility tools, the embedded screen reader—also known as a text-to-speech (TTS) tool—is among the most commonly used features in secondary education. While this feature ...

Google brought its Gemini AI models to Google Translate in August to improve the translation experience for users, but also to add new features to the app, including support for real-time translation ...

In Star Trek, it took until the year 2151 for a functional universal translator to come into existence, but Google is leveraging Gemini to accelerate that timeline. The company is offering real-time ...

Google is rolling out new Gemini-assisted functionality to Search and its Translate app. It says its AI can now provide more natural and accurate text translations for phrases that have more "nuanced ...

Google Translate is rolling out new features that leverage Gemini, including live translation with headphones. Google Translate is now leveraging “advanced Gemini capabilities” to “improve ...