As technology increasingly integrates complex soundscapes into virtual spaces, understanding how humans perceive directional audio becomes vital. This need is bolstered by the rise of immersive media, ...

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

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 ...