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Solving Roblox Forsaken's newest cipher reveals a twisted love story

A hidden Vigenère cipher, a spectrogram buried in audio files, and a tragic falling-out between two friends all point to the ...
Microsoft

LLM can Read Spectrogram: Encoder-free Speech-Language Modeling

Recent speech-aware large language models (Speech-LLMs) rely on a pre-trained speech encoder to convert audio into semantic-rich representations consumable by LLM. In this work, instead, we explore: ...
NPR

The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. AI is making that harder

WASHINGTON — What began as an inquiry into a mysterious sound in the background of an airplane cockpit voice recording escalated into an unexpected challenge for the nation's top safety investigators.
Engadget

People used AI to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a plane crash

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has pulled its docket system offline after people used information uploaded to it to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a plane crash with AI. As ...
TechCrunch

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed in a UPS ...
CNN

A PDF let the internet hear the final words in the cockpit of a UPS plane as it crashed. The NTSB now wants it taken down

New technology allowing audio of plane crashes to be extracted from still images has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to take a rare step of pausing the public release of nearly all ...
Ars Technica

US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices

Pilots’ voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and AI tools. The spread of reconstructed audio recordings has prompted a US ...
IFLScience

"I Saved A PNG Image To A Bird": YouTuber Stores 176KB Drawing Of A Bird Inside A Bird's Song

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
IEEE

CleanMel: Mel-Spectrogram Enhancement for Improving Both Speech Quality and ASR

Abstract: In this work, we propose CleanMel, a single-channel Mel-spectrogram denoising and dereverberation network for improving both speech quality and automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance ...