Why We Don’t Talk Like Computers: Scientists Finally Have an Answer

Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience. Human languages are remarkably complex systems. About 7,000 languages are ...
GitHub

Japanese device names are displayed as garbled text (UTF-8 encoding issue)

On Japanese Windows, audio device names (such as スピーカー, マイク) are shown as unreadable, garbled text in the FlexASIO GUI. This is caused by incorrect handling of UTF-8 encoded strings from the PortAudio ...
IEEE

Advancing Text-to-Speech Systems for Low-Resource Languages: Challenges, Innovations, and Future Directions

Abstract: Speech synthesis, the technology that converts text into spoken words, has advanced significantly for high-resource languages like English, Spanish, and Mandarin. However, many languages ...
IEEE

TIRE 2025 challenge on Text to Image Generation Model Quality Assessment

Abstract: This paper reports on the NTIRE 2025 challenge on Text to Image (T2I) generation model quality assessment, which will be held in conjunction with the New Trends in Image Restoration and ...
Reuters

US judge rejects business group's challenge to Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee

Dec 23 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a challenge by the largest U.S. business lobby group to President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign ...
Reuters

Lawsuit challenges Trump administration's ending of protections for South Sudanese migrants

BOSTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Immigrant rights advocates have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision last month to end the temporary protections from deportation granted to more ...