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On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech, speech-to-text, ...

A universal translator akin to the Babel Fish from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” might soon be possible. It’s all thanks to Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research ...

Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable of seamlessly integrating text and speech inputs and outputs.