At the Volcano Engine AI Innovation Roadshow in Shanghai on August 21, 2024, Volcano Engine showcased a comprehensive upgrade of the Doubao Large Model. This includes the Doubao Text-to-Image Model, which has improved text and image matching capabilities for long texts, the Doubao Speech Recognition Model, which reduced error rates by up to 40% across multiple public test sets, and upgrades to the Doubao Speech Synthesis Model, enhancing streaming speech synthesis abilities for real-time responses and accurate punctuation. Volcano Engine also released a real-time interactive solution for Conversational AI, integrating the Doubao Large Model with real-time audio and video technology, providing end-to-end capabilities.

The Seed-ASR engine launched by ByteDance achieves high-precision recognition of Mandarin, 13 Chinese dialects, and 7 foreign languages through massive training data, significantly enhancing the convenience of cross-language communication. Its key advantage lies in its excellent contextual awareness, accurately recognizing proper nouns, place names, and keywords by incorporating historical information, especially performing exceptionally well in specific scenarios, thereby improving recognition accuracy. Whether in daily conversations, complex meetings, or interactions among multiple people in noisy environments, Seed-ASR can transcribe accurately. It can also recognize various professional terms.

Israeli AI company aiOla has released an open source speech recognition model named Whisper Medusa, which is based on an improved architecture design that incorporates multi-head attention mechanisms, allowing it to process speech 50% faster than OpenAI's Whisper model. Whisper Medusa makes parallel predictions of ten tokens instead of the traditional one at a time, significantly enhancing speech recognition speed while maintaining performance. Its innovative training method employs weak supervision, freezing the backbone system and utilizing...

Israeli AI startup aiOla has launched an open-source speech recognition model called Whisper-Medusa, which is 50% faster than OpenAI's Whisper. The model is built on Whisper, utilizing an innovative 'multi-head attention' architecture that allows for the prediction of more tokens at once, resulting in a significant speed increase while maintaining accuracy. Whisper-Medusa has been released on Hugging Face under the MIT License, permitting both research and commercial use.