Business, General, News Britain’s largest water utility placed under special measures as it grapples with $19.7 billion debt pile July 11, 2024 Regulators gave Thames Water permission to raise customer bills by an average £99 annually over the next five years, nearly half of what it asked for.
China’s top financial officials set to speak at Hong Kong summit Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and several top financial policymakers are expected to speak at the third Global Financial Leaders…
IBM AI Releases Granite 4.0 1B Speech as a Compact Multilingual Speech Model for Edge AI and Translation Pipelines IBM has released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact speech-language model designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional…
Efficient and Adaptable Speech Enhancement via Pre-trained Generative Audioencoders and Vocoders Recent advances in speech enhancement (SE) have moved beyond traditional mask or signal prediction methods, turning instead to pre-trained audio…