‘Harry Potter’ Audiobook: Iwan Rheon and Blake Harrison on Finding Lupin’s Werewolf Howl, Pettigrew’s Mouse Voice and Almost Playing Dobby

Iwan Rheon (“Game of Thrones”) and Blake Harrison (“The Inbetweeners”) are the new Moony and Wormtail in Audible ‘s “ Harry ...

A Lip Reader Just Decoded a Scene With No Audio from 'Heated Rivalry'

According to everyone's favorite TikTok lip reader, Shane says "you're a fucking pussy, go home" before adding "aren't you 45 ...
IEEE

Enhancing XR Theatre with Remote Scent Delivery Using Audio Speech Recognition and Convolutional Neural Network-Based Scene Detection

Abstract: This paper presents a multi-sensory solution designed to enhance the immersive experience of remote audiences for theatrical plays. Using the Macbettu play as a case study, the approach ...
GitHub

CMDAR: A Chinese Multi-scene Dynamic Audio Reasoning Benchmark with Diverse Challenges

We introduce CMDAR, a chinese benchmark for evaluating models on complex, multi-scene, and dynamically evolving audio reasoning tasks. CMDAR comprises 3,000 carefully curated question–answer pairs ...
IEEE

Seeing Speech and Sound: Distinguishing and Locating Audio Sources in Visual Scenes

Abstract: We present a unified model capable of simultaneously grounding both spoken language and non-speech sounds within a visual scene, addressing key limitations in current audio-visual grounding ...
Forbes

Does ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Have A Post-Credits Scene? Here’s If You Should Stay Seated

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. ForbesWhen Will ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Be Streaming? Why Fans ...