A new Linux desktop application called Speed of Sound is making voice typing more practical. It uses modern speech recognition to convert spoken words into text across applications with a focus on speed, privacy, and offline usability. The tool is built around OpenAI Whisper, a speech-to-text system designed to transcribe audio into text with strong […] The post “Speed of Sound” Linux App Brings …
Microsoft Research unveils Paza, a human-centered speech pipeline, and PazaBench, the first leaderboard for low-resource languages. It covers 39 African languages and 52 models and is tested with communities in real settings. The post Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages appeared first on Microsoft Research .
