In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

Overview: AI-generated music often sounds too perfect, with a steady pitch, a rigid rhythm, and a lack of human flaws.Repetitive loops, odd textures, and unnatu ...

Opera has always lived at the crossroads of emotion and discipline. A single performance can shape a singer’s future, opening ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

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The ESC-50 dataset is a labeled collection of 2000 environmental audio recordings suitable for benchmarking methods of environmental sound classification. The dataset consists of 5-second-long ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an audio spectrogram transformer (AST) for sequential inference and evaluate its real- time performance. ASTs are pre-trained in a self-supervised manner, such as ...

In the December 15 episode, the music trio Dek of Hearts became one of the two final artists that would perform in the finale. Team Reba: Aubrey Nicole Aubrey Nicole clinched her place in the finale ...

“The Voice” has crowned the winner of Season 28. After a season full of emotional ballads and powerful anthems, “The Voice” concluded its 28th season with a holiday-themed finale on Tuesday, Dec. 16, ...

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from The Voice Season 28 finale, which aired on Tuesday, December 16. Another winner of The Voice was crowned as Season 28 came to a close on NBC. The ...