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VC firms aren’t putting as much money into climate tech—but some investors see new opportunity
VC investments in climate tech are down for the third year in a row, but investors say the space is narrowing, not disappearing.

RT-VC: Real-Time Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Speech Articulatory Coding
Yisi Liu, Chenyang Wang, Hanjo Kim, Raniya Khan, Gopala Anumanchipalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10289

RT-VC: Real-Time Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Speech Articulatory Coding
Voice conversion has emerged as a pivotal technology in numerous applications ranging from assistive communication to entertainment. In this paper, we present RT-VC, a zero-shot real-time voice conversion system that delivers ultra-low latency and high-quality performance. Our approach leverages an articulatory feature space to naturally disentangle content and speaker characteristics, facilitating more robust and interpretable voice transformations. Additionally, the integration of differentia…

On the pointwise and sup-norm errors for local regression estimators
J\'er\'emy Bettinger, Fran\c{c}ois Portier, Adrien Saumard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07132

On the pointwise and sup-norm errors for local regression estimators
In this paper, we analyze the behavior of various non-parametric local regression estimators, i.e. estimators that are based on local averaging, for estimating a Lipschitz regression function at a fixed point, or in sup-norm. We first prove some deviation bounds for local estimators that can be indexed by a VC class of sets in the covariates space. We then introduce the general concept of shape-regular local maps, corresponding to the situation where the local averaging is done on sets which,…