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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). A 2020 U.S.

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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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The company’s portfolio of vehicles includes Cora, a two-person air taxi and Flyer, a vehicle for personalized flight. Sebastian Thrun, Kitty Hawk’s CEO, was the founder of X (previously Google X), where he led the development of the self-driving car, Google Glass, and other projects.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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Connect with Engineers Worldwide Through the IEEE App

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All the app’s personalized features require permission from users to share their information. The app provides the name of the event, its duration, and location, as well as whether the meeting is in person, virtual, or a combination of in person and online. You can download the IEEE app from Apple’s App Store or Google Play.

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Peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace RelayRides acquires Wheelz

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DriveBox allows renters to reserve, find, and unlock a car in minutes all from a smartphone, without having to meet with the owner in person. Wheelz first introduced its service on college and university campuses throughout California before expanding to the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles.