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speech
Business India Now Fastest Growing Major Economy, PM Modi Says in Independence Day Speech
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India has become the world's fastest growing major economy in the last 12 years, moving from the 'Fragile Five' to a major economy. He set a 2047 goal of developed nation status during his 13th Independence Day address at Red Fort. No fiscal data or policy details were included.
NVMOS: Novel AI Model Predicts Perceptual Quality of Non-Verbal Vocalizations in Speech
A new paper on arXiv introduces NVMOS, the first model purpose-built to assess the perceptual quality of non-verbal vocalizations (NVs) such as laughter, sighs, and coughs in speech. The model was trained on a newly constructed NV-MOS dataset with expert ratings and achieves expert-level agreement with human Mean Opinion Scores. Tests on multimodal LLMs like Gemini showed clear inconsistencies, highlighting the need for specialized NV quality assessment.