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Open Azure Speech makes multilingual streaming refinement generally available · Ronald

Azure Speech makes multilingual streaming refinement generally available

Azure Speech has made multilingual post-stream refinement generally available with an LLM-based streaming engine, open-range language detection, phrase lists and support for 61 locales. The service can recognise language switching without locale preselection while producing faster refined final transcripts for analytics, search, summaries and downstream automation.

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Open Cohere research pushes reasoning into the user’s own language · Ronald

Cohere research pushes reasoning into the user’s own language

Cohere Labs researchers say carefully mixed training data can make a reasoning model think in the user’s language rather than translating internally through English. Tiny Aya L2-Thinker reportedly achieves more than a 93 per cent in-language reasoning rate across 60 languages. The open model, dataset and paper offer a useful basis for replication and cultural-bias testing.

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