Bing Chat desktop supports asking questions by voice
Bing Chat can now be queried by voice via the Edge browser. Questions are also answered in a natural voice, in addition to text.
Microsoft is expanding its generative AI-based Bing Chat with new functionality. The most recent feature released in preview allows users to query the chatbot on a des... Read more
Google releases several updates for its Search engine
Google announced several improvements to its core search engine, focusing on the deployment of AI to help users. With these improvements, the search engine will better answer questions with specific answers or those with very broad scopes.
The company also announced a new algorithm that will han... Read more
Microsoft adds APIs to its Azure Cognitive Services for developers
Microsoft is including more Cognitive Services APIs to its Azure cloud platform in a bid to widen its array of Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.
Azure Cognitive Services is used by developers to add Artificial Intelligence cpabilities such as speech understanding, image identification and ... Read more
Text-to-Speech from Google Cloud gets new languages and voices
The Text-to-Speech service on Google Cloud will be expanded with a number of new languages and new voice sounds. The expansion should make the service attractive to more customers, from more parts of the world.
The app simply works by entering written text, which the service then converts into sp... Read more
New text-to-speech engine from AWS sounds like newsreader
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a number of new neural text-to-speech models. One of those models has a style that has to imitate the way the newsreader sounds.
AWS states that speech quality is important, but that more can be done to make a synthetic voice sound more realistic, says TechCrun... Read more
Google Cloud expands text-to-speech products with more languages
Google Cloud has announced that it is updating its text-to-speech products with more votes and more languages. It also improves the quality of its transcription tools and makes some of these functions widely available.
For Text-to-Speech, Google has almost doubled the number of votes available sinc... Read more