The Punch

Consistency, sacrifice played major roles in my academic excellence – Landmark first-class graduate

Daniella Abolarin, a Landmark University first-class graduate, shares her journey from a 2:2 to achieving academic excellence ...
IEEE

Automated Data Augmentation for Audio Classification

Abstract: Audio classification is a challenging task that requires categorizing audio data based on its content or characteristics. Existing approaches for audio classification rely either on ...
ecoustics

Cambridge Audio’s MXW70 is So Compact It Might Just Start a Class D Rebellion in Your Sock Drawer: The Cabin Audiophiler

The MXW70 shoves 70-watts of Class D power into a half-width amplifier. No screen, no ego, just clean sound for folks who know gear isn’t the story, the music is. At some point, even die-hard ...
ecoustics

Class D Haters, Sit Down: Orchard Audio’s New Starkrimson 25 Mono Premium GaN Amp Is Here to Wreck Your Bias

Orchard Audio’s Starkrimson 25 Mono Premium delivers clean, efficient Class D power with precision and upgrade options for existing owners—no gimmicks, just performance. Still clinging to the myth ...
marktechpost

Step by Step Guide on Converting Text to High-Quality Audio Using an Open Source TTS Model on Hugging Face: Including Detailed Audio File Analysis and Diagnostic Tools in Python

In this tutorial, we demonstrate a complete end-to-end solution to convert text into audio using an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model available on Hugging Face. Leveraging the capabilities of the ...
ManchesterWorld on MSN

Celebrate the Spring Equinox with Carole Vegan

Acclaimed Manchester-based playwright Tim Foley has released a short audio comedy, in the best traditions of Spike Milligan ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: January Windows security updates break audio playback

Microsoft has confirmed that the January 2025 Windows security updates are breaking audio playback on some systems with external DACs (digital-to-analog converters). DACs are commonly used at home, in ...
Frontiers

Classification of arteriovenous fistula sounds using a convolutional block attention module and long short-term memory neural network

1 School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China 2 Department of Nephrology, People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China The assessment of vascular ...
Reuters

Amazon slams authors’ class action over audiobook distribution

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Amazon.com has asked a U.S. judge to dismiss what it called a “far-fetched” lawsuit by independent authors accusing the e-commerce giant of monopolizing the retail market for ...
Microsoft

Multi-label audio classification with a noisy zero-shot teacher

We propose a novel training scheme using self-label correction and data augmentation methods designed to deal with noisy labels and improve real-world accuracy on a polyphonic audio content detection ...