Coders paired with bot buddies work fast, but take too many shortcuts

Pair programming is a common practice in developer circles, though it did not become a formal "pattern" until the turn of this century. The practice is credited with producing better quality code, ...
GitHub

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear ...
GitHub

PutergenAI: Python SDK for Puter.js

PutergenAI is a lightweight, robust Python SDK for interacting with the Puter.js API, an open-source cloud operating system focused on privacy and AI capabilities. This SDK provides a clean interface ...
IEEE

VoiceIDE: Real-Time Code Editing Through Speech Recognition

Abstract: In this work, we present a voice-controlled code editor developed using lightweight web technologies. Our architecture is significantly simpler than traditional voice programming systems, ...
marktechpost

Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...
IEEE

Module-Based End-to-End Distant Speech Processing: A case study of far-field automatic speech recognition

Abstract: Distant speech processing is a critical downstream application in speech and audio signal processing. Traditionally, researchers have addressed this challenge by breaking it down into ...
Task & Purpose

Long-dismissed ‘Gulf War Illness’ finally recognized with international medical code

Veterans who have long sought recognition for a medical condition linked to their service in the Gulf War earned a major victory last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently ...