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Meta’s FAIR team unveiled Omnilingual ASR—an open-weight automatic speech recognition suite that supports over 1,600 languages, including 500 low-resource languages and a raft of long-tail Indian ...

Last week, while I was brushing my teeth before bed, my phone flashed up with a voice note sent by a close friend. "Rachel!" my friend yelled down the phone with some urgency. "The days of the dick ...

Hands up if you correctly guessed the reference Taylor Swift is making on the cover of her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. “Thank you for appreciating that the album cover is a reference to the ...

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