New Text to 911 service allows you to reach help without cell reception. Here's how it works

Text to 911 lets users contact emergency services from areas with no cell signal using satellite-enabled phones. Here's how ...
IEEE

Improving Accented Speech Recognition Using Data Augmentation Based on Unsupervised Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Abstract: This paper investigates the use of unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) as a data augmentation method to improve accented speech recognition. TTS systems are trained with a small ...
Walker

Fraud, phone scams, text messages on the rise in Cass County

Recently, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office has received numerous reports of fraud and scam phone calls and text messages in which the scammer has posed as a member of the Cass County Sheriff’s Office.
Slate

I Thought I Had My Daughter’s Phone Use Under Control. Then She Started Using a Certain App.

I just read The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt’s book about how bad social media is for kids. I’ve already made mistakes with my daughter and smartphones that I wish I could take back. Now I’m ...
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‘I felt betrayed’: Couple killed man’s former lover after discovering text messages on phone

A Southern California couple who lured the man’s former lover from a bar and killed her in a jealous rage will spend decades in prison, authorities said. Margarita Jimenez, 34, of Oxnard, and Jorge ...
IEEE

Multilingual Braille-to-Text Conversion and Text-to-Speech System using Raspberry Pi

Abstract: In spite of the fact that Braille is an important channel of communication for the visually impaired, conventional systems require specialized training and expensive devices that are hard to ...