'Talk to Me, Goose': Pittsburgh man creates app to preserve his voice amid ALS battle

The app's name is a nod to the "Top Gun" film: "It's what he says when he needs a little dose of courage, and I thought I'm ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Local Whisper transcribes hour-long meetings in minutes without sending a single word to any server

Modern hardware makes local AI surprisingly practical.
Young and the Invested on MSN

The shopping shrink ray: 16 shocking shrinkflation offenders

This article looks at the biggest offenders in the shrinkflation game.

RecCloud Expands Complimentary Access to AI Speech-to-Text with New No-Login Transcription Feature

March 8, 2026) - RecCloud announced an update to its AI speech-to-text platform, expanding complimentary access and launching a new login-free transcription feature this month, allowing users to start ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Human brain and AI speech recognition decode speech in similar step-by-step stages, study finds

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...

7 surprisingly useful ways to use ChatGPT's voice mode, from a former skeptic

Voice Mode fabricated answers the last time I used it, but I tested it again to see if it's actually useful now.
Nature

AI can 'same-ify' human expression — can some brains resist its pull?

At the heart of today’s artificial-intelligence models are vast bodies of training data — text, videos and images created by real people and used to teach models how to recognize patterns and generate ...