Generative AI: ElevenLabs unveils v3 (alpha), its most expressive TTS model to date, supporting 70+ languages, emotional cues, dialogue mode, and next-level speech realism.

Sonos adds AI Speech Enhancement option to the Arc Ultra It's Sonos' first AI sound feature, with four levels of speech boost It's been developed with a hearing charity to help people with hearing ...

What is “natural” sound?’ The inside story on how Sonos developed its new AI speech enhancer in partnership with a major hearing loss charity Features By Matt Bolton published 12 May 2025 ...

Abstract Speech in noise listening correlates identified in resting state and DTI MRI images This study presents an examination of the neural connectivity associated with processing speech in noisy ...

As they age, some people find it harder to understand speech in noisy environments. Now, UB researchers have identified the area in the brain, called the insula, that shows significant changes in ...

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association says dB levels at 70 or below are safe for any duration of time, but if the volume spikes up to 91 dB, the safe listening time drops to two hours.

Instead of generating semantic tokens (high-level speech representations) and acoustic details (fine-grained audio features) in two separate stages, Sesame's CSM integrates into a single-stage ...

Hume claims Octave is the first text-to-speech system powered by a large language model (LLM) trained not only on text but on speech and emotion tokens, enabling it to understand words in context ...

The EEA also asserted that noise pollution can lead to anxiety in children under 18 and called for reductions in homes and at schools. "Over 20% of the EU's population, including children, live in ...

A speech-to-print approach begins by connecting spoken sounds (phonemes) to their corresponding letters (graphemes), building from sound to written representations of that sound, and a print-to-speech ...