Fork-tailed drongos in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert can produce up to 51 distinct mimicked alarm calls and deploy them selectively against whichever neighboring species holds the most food.

Editor’s Note: There's a lot to look forward to in spring, including the welcomed hullabaloo of birdsong. The sheer volume of songs and calls can often feel overwhelming for birders, but these sounds ...

An engineer has shown why Apple’s presenters don’t set of Siri on your iPhone during events.

Sleep is one of the most widely studied states of consciousness, known to play a role in physical recovery, the processing of memories and the regulation of immune functions. During sleep, the brain ...

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: ...

Apple appears to have modified the audio of this week's WWDC 2026 keynote video whenever "Siri" was mentioned, apparently in an effort to prevent viewers' nearby devices from waking inadvertently ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that cockpit voice recordings circulating online from the 2025 UPS Flight 2976 crash were reconstructed using artificial intelligence – not ...

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 ...

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access ...

Abstract: In this letter, we present a novel feature extraction method for sound event classification, based on the visual signature extracted from the sound's time-frequency representation. The ...