Best Music of 2025: Staff Picks

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AP Exclusive: China threatens detention in Xinjiang over banned Uyghur songs

Authorities in China's Xinjiang region are threatening to detain residents over downloading, listening to and sharing ...

Takeaways from AP's report on banned Uyghur songs

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of ...

Scientists are learning how noise affects Bay Area wildlife as they work to conserve wetland birds amid a roaring urban soundscape

The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...

Sierra Hull Lost Her Voice Right Before a TV Taping. Her Mandolin Sang for Her

Sierra Hull has the courage to voice what every artist is thinking. “I’d be lying to say that it wouldn’t be a dream to win a ...

What does 6-7 mean? Las Vegas kids, teachers look back at 2025’s biggest trend

Two simple numbers have become the soundtrack of classrooms across the country as students embrace a viral chanting trend ...

John Lennon played it on repeat. Frank Sinatra called it the best song of the 1970s. How a simple C9 chord inspired a timeless top-10 hit

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IEEE

Curriculum Learning aided Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with Arbitrary Speaker Number

Abstract: Recently, audio-visual speech recognition has attracted increasing attention. However, most existing works only focused on scenarios with two speakers. In this work, we study the effect of ...