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EdgeSpeak officially launched, a local-first, privacy-preserving accurate transcription tool, supporting semantic segmentation and timestamps, compatible with OpenAI Audio API, etc. It will later add speaker labeling and speech generation features.
Microsoft open-sourced the VibeVoice speech AI framework, which supports one-shot transcription of 60-minute long audio, multi-speaker diarization and timestamp labeling, and also provides multi-role TTS synthesis capabilities. It is based on Qwen2.5 and comes with a 0.5B lightweight real-time version. It has received 24.8k stars on GitHub.
MUSCAT is a new multilingual, scientific conversation benchmark dataset for evaluating ASR systems on challenging multilingual scenarios including code-switching, domain-specific vocabulary, and mixed language input. The dataset consists of bilingual discussions on scientific papers between speakers using different languages, with results showing current state-of-the-art systems struggle with these multilingual challenges.