Raspberry Pi 5 Local AI Assistant Gains Offline Vision, Voice & Image Generation

A Raspberry Pi 5 offline local AI projects has bee nupdated with offline vision and image generation using CR3VL is a 2B-parameter model, expanding local AI skills without cloud services ...
Electronics Weekly

Q2 launch for Arduino’s Ventuno Q

With VENTUNO Q, AI can finally move from the cloud into the physical world. This platform makes it possible to build machines that perceive, decide, and act — all on a single ...
The Fast Mode

Arduino, Qualcomm Team Up for Powerful Edge AI with VENTUNO Q

VENTUNO Q eliminates multi-device complexity because it delivers synchronized perception, decision, and action on a single board. The main processor runs Ubuntu and Linux Debian with upstream support, ...

Arduino VENTUNO Q with Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 for edge AI and autonomous robotics announced

Qualcomm’s Arduino has announced the upcoming launch of Arduino VENTUNO Q, a platform designed for edge AI, robotics, and actuation. The board is powered by the Dragonwing IQ8 Series, providing ...
VentureBeat

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more ...
Microsoft

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

According to the 2025 Microsoft AI Diffusion Report approximately one in six people globally had used a generative AI product. Yet for billions of people, the promise of voice interaction still falls ...
Forbes

The FBI Is Using Facial Recognition To Identify ICE Protestors In Social Media Videos

The FBI has charged multiple people with crimes like vandalism after determining their identities using the controversial technology, according to court records. ICE protesters are being monitored by ...
GitHub

openFrameworks addon for real-time speech-to-text using sherpa-onnx.

ofxSherpaOnnx brings high-quality, real-time, offline speech recognition into the openFrameworks ecosystem. It acts as a C++ wrapper for the sherpa-onnx library, allowing for easy integration of voice ...
GitHub

LFYG/vosk-api-23-04-29

Vosk is an offline open source speech recognition toolkit. It enables speech recognition for 20+ languages and dialects - English, Indian English, German, French ...
Aclu.org

Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell

Face recognition is a dragnet surveillance technology and its expansion within law enforcement over the last 20 years has been marred by systematic invasions of privacy, inaccuracies, unreliable ...
TechRepublic

Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages

Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. C’mon in. Meta has unveiled Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), an AI system that can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource ...