From Sound to Text: How Speech Recognition Works

by Tabish alam — Part 19 of the NLP Series

Medium·3h ago

The Eye Patch Triage: Why Conversational AI Mistook an Acute Ischemic Stroke for Bell’s Palsy

by Maya Lin — When an autoregressive intake chatbot evaluates unilateral facial drooping through free-text de-escalation, a patient loses the critical…

Python in Plain English·8h ago

Jev AI: Why Not Every AI Call Needs an LLM

by SHIVAM JINDAL — Jev from TypeSafe AI returns decisions, not text. Here’s why most AI calls in your app were never really a job for an LLM

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English·12h ago

Dessa AI Voice Model: Block’s Speech AI That Hears Emotion

Trained on speech, not text: the Dessa AI voice model from Block listens while it talks. Here is what it does, what it runs on and who gets access. The post Dessa AI Voice Model: Block’s Speech AI...

AIMiracle.ai·16h ago

vLLM Semantic Router Releases d3-ultra: A 27B Open Multimodal Decision Model

vLLM Semantic Router released d3-ultra, a 27B open-weight multimodal decision model. It reads text, images and video once, then returns probabilities for every answer, scoring 87.2 on the team’s...

Marktechpost·20h ago

Block Rebuilt Voice AI From Scratch. Dessa Learned to Talk Without Ever Reading.

by Vinay Bhaskarla — Trained only on human conversation, it laughs mid-sentence, hears the emotion text throws away, and runs on a MacBook Pro.

Medium·1d ago

Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models

Liquid AI released LFM3, 6 open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, audio, omni and decisions. LFM3-1.7B uses a tri-hybrid backbone, a 256K context window and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit. The...

Marktechpost·5h ago

From Vanilla Transformers to Modern LLMs: The Evolution of Transformer Architecture — Part 3…

by Naimish Baranwal — From Vanilla Transformers to Modern LLMs: The Evolution of Transformer Architecture — Part 3: Attention Optimization (MHA, MQA, GQA, MLA)TL;DRThe problem. When an LLM generates text, each new token...

Towards AI·11h ago

How much has GPT-6.1 Terra improved over the previous Terra? Comparing the half-price Sol model using Codex

On October 26, 2026, OpenAI released a new model, GPT-6.1 Terra. It is a "fast and efficient" model strong in image reading, operating apps by looking at the screen (Computer Use), and writing text,...

note·15h ago

GPT-6.1 Terra: How OpenAI Is Making AI Agents Faster, More Efficient, and More Practical

by Sumit Verma — Artificial intelligence is moving beyond answering questions and generating text. Modern AI models are increasingly expected to understand…

Medium·18h ago

When AI Writes Your Image Alt Text, What Should You Keep?

by Smart Choice Lab — Imagine publishing an article about choosing a laptop for remote work.

Medium·23h ago

Crisis Text Classification: Teaching AI to Tell a Real Emergency from Noise

by Deval Patel — How a simple NLP pipeline can turn thousands of messy messages into a prioritized list for rescue teams.

Medium·1d ago

MiniCPM OCR Turns Scans Into Text And Flags Its Own Mistakes

by Fathom News — Open-source AI lab OpenBMB has released MiniCPM OCR, a free tool that turns scans, phone photos and PDFs into text and marks the spots it…

Medium·7h ago

Your Phone Can See Every Word in a Picture, So Why Can’t You Copy Them?

by Muhammad ahmad — The surprising difference between seeing text in an image and actually being able to use it.

Medium·12h ago

Text to Vector vs. Image to Vector: How AI Is Changing Graphic Design

by LinkFilm.AI — From creating vector artwork with a simple text prompt to converting existing images into scalable SVGs, AI is giving designers new ways…

Medium·15h ago

Text to image or image to image? Picking the right starting point for six common jobs

by Kling4 AI — Most AI image tools offer two doors: start from words, or start from a picture.

Medium·20h ago

Collapse of creativity and inverse AI alignment

by Oleksandr Savsunenko — No AI was used to write this text

Medium·1d ago

The voice-to-text AI tool that's popular with coders almost ruined my life when I tried it

Business Insider·1d ago