Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-text translation (E2E ST) has increasingly aroused interest and attention recently, attempting to address the problem of data scarcity and modeling burden. Several ...

In May, when I conceived the Courier’s First Amendment special edition, I envisioned a primer for our readers, sort of a guide to possible things to watch for. But things have changed. In the ...

I am a free-speech absolutist. My conviction has only grown stronger over the last decade, even as the idea appears to have fallen out of favor on the left and right. To echo the famous line often ...

"I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz," the comedian-turned-Senator Al Franken once quipped. "And I hate Ted Cruz." As a liberal Democrat, I've also done my fair share ...

America was founded on principles embraced by those who had lived and suffered under governments that treated people as servants of little value. In England and across Europe, monarchies enriched the ...

“Free speech is at the lowest ebb it has been in Britain since the eighteenth century,” the U.K. Free Speech Union’s founder and president Toby Young, recently ennobled, told me over lunch at the ...

Recent threats by Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute "hate speech" and by Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr to penalize ABC affiliates over Jimmy Kimmel's comments have thrust the ...

In 1977, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Party of America applied for a permit to march through Skokie, Illinois, a predominantly Jewish, Chicago suburb. They wanted to wear brown ...

ABC announced that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was "indefinitely" suspended after he callously milked Charlie Kirk’s murder by claiming President Donald Trump fans were desperate to avoid the "fact" ...

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The national discussion surrounding free speech that was reignited following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has made me realize how dire the situation has truly gotten on ...

Democrats are decrying what they say is President Donald Trump‘s wholesale attack on free speech in America after a series of actions in recent weeks, from the attempted cancellation of comedian Jimmy ...