Abstract: Discrete audio representation, aka audio tokenization, has seen renewed interest driven by its potential to facilitate the application of text language modeling approaches in audio domain.

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: ...

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

Abstract: Deep learning models such as CNNs and Transformers have achieved impressive performance for end-to-end audio tagging. Recent works have shown that despite stacking multiple layers, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is replacing traditional nighttime callback surveys with autonomous recording units, or ...

Classification of audio with variable length using a CNN + LSTM architecture on the UrbanSound8K dataset.