SAA decides whether speech was meant for a device before it reaches the voice AI stack, so agents respond only when ...

Home Assistant 2026.7 simplifies automation with new intuitive triggers, an activity timeline, grouped updates, and many integrations.

Microsoft is reportedly preparing thousands of job cuts as AI spending rises, with sales, consulting, and Xbox among the areas expected to be affected. If you can only read one tech story a day, this ...

Deep learning based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have been evolving rapidly with advances in model architectures, training methodologies, and generalization across speakers and languages. However, ...

A real-time conversational system: speak to it, and a photoreal avatar speaks back (lip-synced audio + video). Multi-turn, streaming end-to-end. speech → STT → LLM → TTS → lip-sync avatar → ...