Surveillance footage released this week shows a man prying bronze dedication plaques from the outside walls of several San Diego County libraries, leaving blank spots where community history once hung ...

The federal government shutdown, which begins today, will have cascading effects across the nation and our economy. For one, it will pause federal programs and slow support for services that many ...

EmoCtrl-TTS utilizes embeddings that represent emotion and non-verbal vocalizations to condition the flow-matching-based zero-shot TTS. In order to generate high-quality emotional speech, EmoCtrl-TTS ...

On August 26, 2025, Microsoft released VibeVoice, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model built for long-form, multi-speaker audio — think scripted podcasts, training modules, and dialogue-heavy ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — What started out as a quirky Portland experiment has now turned into a phenomenon that spans from Japan to England. Local artist Mike Bennett has sparked a movement of keychain ...

This week, Portland City Council considered a resolution to use $21 million in unspent funds to help people struggling to afford rent, focused on preventing homelessness. The unspent money from within ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Last month, I was debugging a particularly nasty data processing script that was taking 4 hours to run. Four. Hours ...

PRATTSVILLE — Thank you to our law enforcement officers, medical professionals, all public and utility employees, and those who make our lives easier and have to work out in this heat and humidity.

Kyutai’s voice cloning technology uses pre-made embeddings to replicate voice characteristics with precision. While this approach limits customization, it ensures controlled and ethical use of the ...