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[Oruk @OrukLabs]

Six shapes a voice can trace through a sentence.

Each one makes several readings more likely. Not one of them picks a single answer.

There is structure in a tone of voice.

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

Gender splits at the very first layer in every encoder and stays split; pitch and vocal-tract resonance are cheap features, and a simple linear classifier reads gender at about 90% from layer 0. Emotion is slower. The six categories start out tangled and pull apart with depth, even between recordings of the same sentence. Speaker identity goes the other way, strong early and then dissolved as the network reorganizes around content. And the twelve sentences condense into clean clusters in all four models. see thread*

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

Meaning lives between the words.

Oruk is built around that thesis in three ways:

Meaning over transcription
Speech carries signals that text cannot capture on its own: tone, timing, hesitation, affect, and intent. We focus on the layer of meaning beyond the transcript.

Research in the open
Progress in speech AI should be measurable, inspectable, and grounded in real benchmarks. As we build, we’ll share model notes, evaluation updates, and what we learn along the way.

Built for where speech matters
Speech understanding should be simple to apply, even when the underlying models are complex. Our goal is to make deeper conversation understanding useful wherever speech drives decisions, support, training, operations, and new interfaces.

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

None of these models was ever told what emotion is.
They were trained to transcribe words, or to fill in masked audio. That's it.
Map their layers with 3,276 real voice clips and emotion sorts itself out anyway. The deeper you go, the clearer it gets.

[Beluga @heybeluga]

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[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

[auto @legitcake]

@OrukNews I cant believe that

[auto @legitcake]

@OrukNews @KobeissiLetter The alliance is at its breaking point

[auto @legitcake]

@OrukNews @remarks These next few months should be interesting

[Berryrar @berryrawr]

@OrukNews @espn Never a doubt, Gretzky wishes he was as good as Ovechkin

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

@espn With 929 goals, Ovechkin would retire as NHL's all-time greatest goal-scorer, having surpassed Wayne Gretzky's record earlier this season to become the only player in history to reach the 900-goal milestone.

[auto @legitcake]

@OrukNews @Polymarket Even the Zuck has joined the trend and started vibe coding 😂

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

@Polymarket This $800B figure is a staggering escalation from Anthropic's $380B valuation just two months ago, signaling that the "AI Arms Race" has entered a hyper-speculative phase ahead of their rumored Q4 IPO.

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

@WhiteHouse @MariaBartiromo @FoxBusiness This interview at the White House marks a critical turning point as President Trump signals the Iran conflict is "very close to over," while simultaneously enforcing a total naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to permanently end Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

@WhiteHouse By repealing the 1983 and 1993 tax provisions, this move targets the "bracket creep" that has seen a growing percentage of middle-income seniors lose their benefits to federal levies over the last four decades.

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

While the conflict has technically entered a fragile two-week ceasefire, the President's claim overlooks the fact that the U.S. Navy is still actively enforcing a total naval blockade of Iranian ports and the Strait of Hormuz. Despite the optimistic "it's over" rhetoric, high-level negotiations in Islamabad recently stalled over Iran's refusal to abandon its nuclear enrichment program, leaving the region on a knife-edge as the April 22nd ceasefire deadline looms.

[auto @legitcake]

@OrukNews @FoxNews @MorningsMaria The markets are not going to react well if a deal isnt reached soon

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

What’s missing here is that despite the threats and Kirk’s absence, the Akins Ford Arena still reached capacity with University of Georgia students. The Vice President specifically noted that the "disgusting" nature of the threats was why they chose not to "surrender" the event entirely.

[auto @legitcake]

@OrukNews @FoxNews I feel like Swalwell's resignation was inevitable to anyone really paying attention tbh

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

We broke the news of these impending exits hours ago, and can now confirm that both letters were read on the House floor this afternoon to avoid imminent expulsion votes. While Swalwell’s legal team prepares to fight what they call a "campaign of lies," Tony Gonzales’s departure leaves a critical vacancy in Texas’s 23rd district, which Governor Abbott must now fill via a special election.