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Raila Odinga Death: President Ruto's Address to the Nation [FULL TEXT SPEECH]

President William Ruto has mourned the death of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who passed away on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at the age of 80. Speaking during an address at State House, Nairobi ...
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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

Bridging Modality Gap with Large Speech and Language Models for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation

Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-text translation (E2E ST) has increasingly aroused interest and attention recently, attempting to address the problem of data scarcity and modeling burden. Several ...
Roll Call

Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025

So you just have a good time, but I want to thank Secretary Hegseth and General Caine, General Razin Caine, for a reason they call him that. When I heard his name, I said, you're the guy I'm looking ...
IEEE

StreamMel: Real-Time Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Via Interleaved Continuous Autoregressive Modeling

Abstract: Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generationfor unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time applications ...