How to use ChatGPT: A beginner's guide to mastering OpenAI's chatbot in 2026

When you're ready to start your first chat, click or tap New chat, type your prompt in the composer, and press Enter or tap ...

This AI voice-to-text app turns rambling into polished writing for $40

TL;DR: VoiceType AI turns speech into polished text with real-time transcription, automatic formatting, grammar cleanup, and ...

Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?

I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with ...

The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. AI is making that harder

The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to ...

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

Now some authors tell me they’ve embraced AI as a “writing tool,” no different from spell-check or a laptop. The phrase is ...
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MaskVCT: Masked Voice Codec Transformer for Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Increased Controllability via Multiple Guidances

Abstract: We introduce MaskVCT, a zero-shot voice conversion (VC) model that offers multi-factor controllability through multiple classifier-free guidances (CFGs). While previous VC models rely on a ...
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Expressive-VC: Highly Expressive Voice Conversion with Attention Fusion of Bottleneck and Perturbation Features

Abstract: Voice conversion for highly expressive speech is challenging. Current approaches struggle with the balance between speaker similarity, intelligibility, and expressiveness. To address this ...