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The Best Tiny Desk Concerts of 2025

Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on ...

How animals have been used for espionage from Hvaldimir the roving Russian whale to American 'bat bombs' and a 'spy squirrel' unit caught behind enemy lines

The first time animals are believed to have been used was after German pharmacist Julius Neubronner developed the pigeon ...
IEEE

Bridging Ears and Eyes: Analyzing Audio and Visual Large Language Models to Humans in Visible Sound Recognition and Reducing Their Sensory Gap via Cross-Modal Distillation

Abstract: Audio large language models (LLMs) are considered experts at recognizing sound objects, yet their performance relative to LLMs in other sensory modalities, such as visual or audio-visual ...

Chatbots find their voice as audio assistants rise

Siri, Alexa and other virtual assistants are turning from clunky robots into smart agents, while $500 bln OpenAI may be ...

Justin's House Party - Justin's House Christmas Party

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the Justin’s House Christmas party!
IEEE

A Sound Source Localization Method Based on the Active Perception of Mobile Robot

Abstract: This paper applies human's active perception mechanism of external sound information to a mobile robot auditory system, an active sensing strategy based on dual microphones is proposed with ...