AssemblyAI published a JavaScript tutorial for a browser voice assistant using its Voice Agent API, WebSocket tokens and AudioWorklet audio handling.

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As one of Britain’s leading asset managers, Aberdeen has had a torrid decade. The £11billion merger and joint leadership cooked up by adventurous boss Martin Gilbert and Standard Life’s technocratic ...

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When dogs hear their owners speak, they are listening for consonants in words rather than vowels, a new study suggests, apparently mimicking a similar human bias that is found across many languages.

Amazon MGM Studios’ adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller “Counting Miracles” has found its writer/director in “The Peanut Butter Falcon” co-filmmaker Tyler Nilson. Starring Alan Ritchson, ...

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is proposing to stop counting immigrants without permanent residency status in the census, which is conducted to determine state representation in Congress and ...

Political commentators have hit out at Donald Trump. They claimed that the president had a “disgusting vowel movement” on live television. Critics have alleged that he used the moment to dodge a ...

FiveThirtyEight is coming back from the dead — sort of. Just ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, Crooked Media inked a deal to acquire and revive the “FiveThirtyEight Politics” podcast hosted by Nate ...