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 ...

Abstract: Recent advancements in the domain of computer vision have enabled the analysis of audio spectrograms. In this paper, we present a novel approach that leverages spectrogram representations ...

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: ...

Abstract: Ultra-low-bitrate speech coding is pivotal for bandwidth-constrained communication and deep compression, yet maintaining naturalness and speaker identity at such extreme bit budgets remains ...

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 ...