Abstract: Expressive speech synthesis requires vibrant prosody and well-timed pauses. We propose an effective strategy to augment a small dataset to train an expressive end-to-end Text-to-Speech model ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday evening, after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency withdrew from consideration Tuesday evening, after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators ...

The wildly popular online game Roblox is facing a new criminal investigation in Florida, where the state’s attorney general accused the platform of being a “breeding ground for child predators.” ...

Major services were having issues, including WhatsApp, the official website for the British government and the payment app Venmo. By Joel Petterson Hundreds of websites and apps were reporting outages ...

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Britain announced a national plan on Sunday to train and recruit hundreds of thousands of workers for industrial jobs amid growing demand in the clean energy sector. The ...

NBA star Anthony Edwards has a message for ESPN Insider Shams Charania. “If I’m going to get traded, you better f***ing text me,” the Minnesota Timberwolves star said in an interview with Charania via ...

The fallout over leaked texts sent from Democrats’ Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones is putting Abigail Spanberger, the party’s Virginia gubernatorial nominee, in a difficult position ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela and told his special envoy Richard Grenell to stop all outreach, a ...

Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens pointing out examples. To the Editor: Re “Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again,” by Bret Stephens (column, Sept. 24): It is true that a number of ...

Shortly before taping began at the BAM Opera House, October 2. Photo: Brian Finke Shortly before taping began at the BAM Opera House, October 2. Photo: Brian Finke Inside, a DJ spun Motown oldies for ...

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are ...