While LLMs excel at semantic interpretation, their ability to interpret complex spatial and visual recognition differences is limited. Gaps in these two areas are why jailbreak attacks launched with ASCII art succeed.
Streaming Speech-to-Text makes it easier than ever to transcribe live audio and videos, now with customizable end-of-utterance detection at a lower cost.
We propose a personalization framework to adapt compact models to test time environments and improve their speech enhancement performance in noisy and reverberant conditions. The use-cases are when the end-user device encounters only one or a few speakers and noise types that tend to reoccur in the…
Microsoft launches Face Check facial recognition for Entra Verified ID to enable secure, privacy-protecting identity verification for enterprise customers.
New legislation that seeks to curb copyright infringement by requiring domain-name registrars to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials raises serious free-speech concerns, a civil liberties group said Tuesday.
Motion sensing technologies like Microsoft Kinect won't be limited to PCs and video game consoles, Microsoft's chief research and strategy office Craig Mundie said in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday.
The FBI today said it's made a long-awaited switch from its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to an upgraded, faster one the FBI calls Advanced Fingerprint Information Technology (AFIT). The AFIT replacement prepares the way for going beyond fingerprint identification to other biometrics, including latent palm prints and facial recognition, the next step in the FBI's multiyear effort called the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system.
Apple could be preparing to enhance the iPhone's image search and video calling capabilities, or even add face authentication to the iPhone, say analysts and software usability experts.
Government-funded researchers in Taiwan have developed a vending machine that recommends purchases based on people's faces, one of the inventors said on Friday.
A top microblog in China has blocked searches for the Chinese words for "Hillary Clinton" and "Hillary", just a day after the U.S. Secretary of State gave a speech urging governments to end Internet censorship.
A recent Apple patent filing reveals an invention for hand-writing recognition for pen-based computers. The news sparked a new wave of speculation about Apple’s possible mobile tablet plans. Meanwhile, Microsoft may be getting new respect as details leak about Courier, a small, folding tablet that blends pen and gestures.
Two conservative organizations, a physicians' group and a social policy think tank, are suing the Obama administration for privacy and free speech violations over a recent attempt to get people to e-mail the White House about any "fishy" misinformation they hear regarding health-care reform.
IBM researchers said today they have developed software that uses optical character recognition and screen scraping to identify and cover up confidential data.
Chinese president Hu Jintao has opened a microblog, adopting the technology despite his government's work to stifle free speech by microblog users in China.
Future ultrabook laptops will have touchscreens, voice recognition, longer battery life and lower prices, an Intel executive said Monday, as he also took a swipe at tablets during a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Attending IT360 last week didn't guarantee you a seat at Michael Calce's keynote with Craig Silverman. The conference room reached full capacity and left a crowd of onlookers spilling into the hall outside the doors.
The wunderkinds at MIT's Media Lab (Fluid Interfaces Group) have developed a gesture-controlled wearable computing device that feeds you relevant information and turns any surface into an interactive display. Called the Sixth Sense, the gadget relies on certain gestures and on object recognition to call up virtual gadgets and Web-based information, in a way that conjures up the movie Minority Report.
Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner.
The Technology Academy of Finland announced Thursday that Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds is one of two laureates for the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, in recognition of his contributions to the open-source software world.