Two women killed in Cork crash named as weekend roads death toll rises to five – The Irish Times

The two women killed in a road traffic collision in north Cork on Sunday have been named. Mary Coughlan (64) from Kings Square, Mitchelstown and Susan O’Sullivan (41) of Beechwood Drive, Mallow were both pronounced dead at the scene of the two-vehicle crash on the main Mallow-Killarney road. Ms O’Sullivan was travelling east towards Mallow … Read more

French court bars far-right leader Le Pen from public office | The Far Right News

A French court has imposed a jail sentence on far-right leader Marine Le Pen and barred her from seeking public office after it found her guilty of embezzling European Union funds. The Paris court ruled on Monday that Le Pen used more than 3 million euros ($3.3m) of European Parliament funds to pay members of … Read more

Kucherov leads 3 Stars of the Week

FIRST STAR – NIKITA KUCHEROV, RW, TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING Kucherov paced the NHL with 3-8—11 in three games to overtake Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon (30-79—109 in 74 GP) for the lead in the Art Ross Trophy race and lift the Lightning (43-25-5, 91 points) into second place in the Atlantic Division via a perfect … Read more

New AI voice screening method improves detection of anxiety and depression

Scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP) were authors of a research paper published in the Journal of Acoustical Society of America Express Letters that demonstrates improved, automated screening methods for anxiety and major depressive disorders. In the project titled, “Automated acoustic voice screening techniques for comorbid depression … Read more

OpenAI Introduces New Speech Models for Transcription and Voice Generation

OpenAI has introduced new speech-to-text and text-to-speech models in its API, focusing on improving transcription accuracy and offering more control over AI-generated voices. These updates aim to enhance automated speech applications, making them more adaptable to different environments and use cases. The new gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe models improve word error rate (WER), outperforming previous versions, … Read more

VONST Babylijkje & Cemetery Coffin Mysteries

Archyde Infant‘s Body Found in West Virginia Cemetery; Police Investigate Table of Contents 1. Infant’s Body Found in West Virginia Cemetery; Police Investigate 2. Grim Discovery in Quiet cemetery 3. Investigation and Community Response 4. Legal and Ethical Considerations 5. A Community Mourns 6. Given the article’s focus on Safe Haven laws, infant abandonment, and … Read more