Greek artist Nikos Floros created a breathtaking, three-meter tall sculpture of gold and bronze from Maria Callas’ voice echogram. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain A monumental sculpture of ...

What if the programming language you rely on most is on the brink of a transformation? For millions of developers worldwide, Python is not just a tool, it’s a cornerstone of their craft, powering ...

I've been digging into the audio preprocessing in transformers.js and noticed an issue: There are currently no unit tests for the audio_utils module in the JS implementation. The output of spectrogram ...

Abstract: In this work, we propose CleanMel, a single-channel Mel-spectrogram denoising and dereverberation network for improving both speech quality and automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance ...

TL;DR: Musician and acoustic scientist Benn Jordan achieved a potential world first by encoding data onto a live European starling. Using a spectral synthesizer, he transformed an image into sound, ...

Until recently, the Andean bear—the only species of bear in South America, easily recognized by the light-colored markings that frame its face like glasses—was thought to be almost mute; there were ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Now this is the sort of application of AI that really intrigues me. Researchers have developed DolphinGemma, the first large language model (LLM) for understanding dolphin language. It could help us ...

The Australian EEZ provides habitat for ten species of mysticete whales seasonally supporting critical life functions ranging from feeding to breeding. All of these species produce downsweeping calls, ...

Maja Mielke has received funding from FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek). The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the ...