Bird songs share surprising similarities with human music and speech, according to a large-scale study comparing vocalizations across hundreds of bird species and dozens of human languages.
The findings in Science suggest that these similarities may arise partly from shared biological mechanisms, rather than vocal learning ability alone.
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A few upgrades to the Claude mobile apps this week:
On iPad and iPhone Duo: what Claude makes now opens beside the chat instead of over it, and goes full screen when you want a closer look.
On Chromebooks, Googlebooks, and foldables, Claude on Android now works like a laptop app, with a resizable sidebar, trackpad and right-click, and the same keyboard shortcuts as Claude Desktop.
On web, desktop, iOS, and Android: the app is now available in 24 more languages, 33 in all, including Bengali, Danish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like
Introducing 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹: our new generation of Liquid Foundation Models. With a new tri-hybrid architecture and new multimodal encoders, the LFM3 family is the ideal model suite for specialized intelligence.
> 6 model instances, across text, audio, vision, and omni modalities, generative and decision models.
> 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝟷.𝟽𝙱: text, 256k context window.
> 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝚅𝙻-𝟸𝙱: vision-language model with video-input support for spatial understanding
> 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝙰𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘-𝟸𝙱: tool calls, voice chat, reasoning in 18 languages.
> 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝙾𝚖𝚗𝚒-𝟸𝙱: an omni model combines vision, audio, and language.
> 𝚍𝟷-𝟸𝙱 and 𝚍𝟷-𝙾𝚖𝚗𝚒-𝟸𝙱: decision models with typed outputs and calibrated probabilities in a single pass. Omni adds audio input.
> fine-tune on 1 GPU.
> a new tri-hybrid architecture
> architecture optimized for 14 processor classes across GPUs, CPUs, and NPUs.
> 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝚅𝙻-𝟸𝙱 is a beast. It performs competitively with Gemma 4 12B (6x larger), and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, and GPT-5.6 Luna, with 1.9B parameters.
> 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝟷.𝟽𝙱 is #1 on the Pareto frontier of device intelligence 𝚙𝚒𝚙𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎.𝚕𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚍.𝚊𝚒
Every modality for specialized intelligence. Pick the one that fits your use case, customize it, and run it on-device.
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Meet NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 🎙️
An open-weight, promptable 30B MoE model with ~4B active parameters that brings transcription in 40 languages, speaker attribution, translation, contextual prompting and audio understanding into one checkpoint.
Watch it keep track of who said what when everyone’s talking at once.
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What linguists think everyone should know about language, according to a 2025 survey:
1) How and why do languages change? (61)
2) How do children acquire language? (58)
3) How many languages are there in the world? (51)
4) What are the benefits of learning foreign languages? (45)
5) What is language? (45)
6) What are the functions of language? (44)
7) What is the difference between spoken and written language? (43)
8) Does language influence thought? (42)
9) What is the difference between a language and a dialect? (41)
10) What differentiates human language from animal communication? (36)
11) What is linguistics? (34)
12) Are some languages better than others? (32)
13) Are sign languages real languages? (30)
14) How common is multilingualism in the world? (29)
15) What are the different parts of speech? (28)
16) What are the basic components of language? (28)
17) What is the relation between language and culture? (26)
18) What other languages are related to your first language(s)? (26)
19) What does it mean to know a language? (23)
20) What is the difference between learning first and subsequent languages? (21)
21) Is language change equal to language decay? (21)
22) In what ways do languages differ? (21)
23) What features are shared by (almost) all human languages? (21)
24) What does it mean to speak “correctly”? (20)
25) What is syntax? (20)
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📵 Don’t watch the news
❤️ Emotional intelligence
🧘 How to manage stress
🚗 Basic car maintenance
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🎯 How to influence people
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🌟 Building others up, not tearing them down
🧩 Problem-solving over memorization
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🔄 How to adapt, not conform
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What more would you add?
The Bible:
· 0 errors
· 66 books
· 40+ authors
· 0 contradictions
· 3 different languages
· 3 different continents
· 63K+ cross-references
· written over 1500 years
· all telling the same story
I am speechless --> get it. Now I
can use Cartesia's Managed Agents to turn any simple prompt into a working voice agent in minutes!
You choose the instructions, pick an LLM and a voice, and connect the tools your agent needs.
Cartesia takes care of the voice infrastructure behind the scenes and they're so good at it!
You can build agents that answer questions, search knowledge bases, book appointments, and interact with people over the phone.
A few things that stand out:
• Supports 44+ languages
• Handles interruptions naturally
• Connects with your own tools and knowledge bases
• Works through a browser or phone call
The exciting part is not just making an AI talk.
It is giving it a useful job and letting it get things done through a conversation.
I am curious to see what developers build with this.
What would your first voice agent do?
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Hon. Speaker Adv. Mudenda expressed concern over the quality of local radio and television content, describing it as unpalatable, disrespectful to listeners, and damaging to indigenous languages. Emphasizing that language is fundamental to identity and dignity, he warned that Shona, Tonga, and Kalanga risk being eroded into "Chiraparapa" if left unprotected, and called on the relevant ministries to intervene immediately to preserve local languages.
Introducing Audio8-TTS-Realistic, @Edge0_AI’s new open-weight speech model: realistic, zero-shot voice cloning in just 0.6B parameters.
• Human-like prosody and expressive delivery
• Clones a voice from one short clip, in 23 languages
• 601M params: small enough to fine-tune and serve affordably
Currently #1 on the Hugging Face TTS Arena, where people vote blind on which voice sounds more human.
Open weights are available now on @huggingface. Try it free.
