Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter, this production by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) tackles the slippery ...

Apple appears to have modified the audio of this week's WWDC 2026 keynote video whenever "Siri" was mentioned, apparently in an effort to prevent viewers' nearby devices from waking inadvertently ...

Andy Lee of Brandsmiths explains how firm secured a win for Peppa Pig over rival children’s character Wolfoo, in a case that centred on copied audio clips The England and Wales High Court handed a ...

High Court finds Wolfoo videos copied Peppa Pig sound recordings across billions of YouTube views.

In 1997, NOAA recorded a mysterious sound heard across the Pacific, sparking sea monster theories before scientists traced it ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that cockpit voice recordings circulating online from the 2025 UPS Flight 2976 crash were reconstructed using artificial intelligence – not ...

An engineer has shown why Apple’s presenters don’t set of Siri on your iPhone during events.

Background Congenital aortic stenosis (ConAoS) accounts for approximately 4%–8% of all congenital heart diseases. Chronic ...

Recent speech-aware large language models (Speech-LLMs) rely on a pre-trained speech encoder to convert audio into semantic-rich representations consumable by LLM. In this work, instead, we explore: ...

Editor’s Note: There's a lot to look forward to in spring, including the welcomed hullabaloo of birdsong. The sheer volume of songs and calls can often feel overwhelming for birders, but these sounds ...

Abstract: Ultra-low-bitrate speech coding is pivotal for bandwidth-constrained communication and deep compression, yet maintaining naturalness and speaker identity at such extreme bit budgets remains ...

Abstract: Recent advancements in the domain of computer vision have enabled the analysis of audio spectrograms. In this paper, we present a novel approach that leverages spectrogram representations ...