FOI changes would make Ontario the country’s most secretive government, advocates say

To be clear, all FOI laws across the country lay out a broad range of exemptions for cabinet confidence, personal information ...

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in ...

Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation

Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.
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RESON8 Raises EUR 5M to Build Europe-Centric Speech AI Platform

Reson8 has raised EUR 5m in pre-seed funding for a customizable, adaptive speech-to-text platform focused on European ...
InfoWorld

A GitHub tinkerer teaches Claude to talk less, and that may matter more than it seems

The tweak via the markdown file could be effective to a degree in helping enterprises taming costs around AI as they move to ...
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How to extract Text from Images with Snipping Tool in Windows 11

Microsoft has introduced an option to extract text from images with Snipping Tool. The feature will be available to all soon. The tool now ships with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology ...