New software tool Pixasonics turns biomedical images into sound

Modern biomedicine increasingly relies on enormous amounts of image data. Although computers can do part of the analysis work, biologists often still need to look through the images themselves. This ...
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.
Jalopnik

Crashed UPS Plane's Flight Crew's Final Words Extracted From A PDF And Made Public

The National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate the UPS cargo plane crash shortly after takeoff last year in Louisville, Kentucky. During a recent hearing, the National ...
Mashable

Travel authority pulls public records used to create AI audio of deceased pilots

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is pausing the release of previously public information related to its investigations, after individuals used AI to recreate the last words of deceased ...
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 ...
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 ...