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Hoboken, NJ-based Saphyre, which makes software used in securities trading, raised $70M from FTV Capital (Luis Garcia/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fintech-investor-ftv-capital-backs-trading-workflow-softwar…

Progressive Facial Granularity Aggregation with Bilateral Attribute-based Enhancement for Face-to-Speech Synthesis
Yejin Jeon, Youngjae Kim, Jihyun Lee, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07376

Progressive Facial Granularity Aggregation with Bilateral Attribute-based Enhancement for Face-to-Speech Synthesis
For individuals who have experienced traumatic events such as strokes, speech may no longer be a viable means of communication. While text-to-speech (TTS) can be used as a communication aid since it generates synthetic speech, it fails to preserve the user's own voice. As such, face-to-voice (FTV) synthesis, which derives corresponding voices from facial images, provides a promising alternative. However, existing methods rely on pre-trained visual encoders, and finetune them to align with speec…