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How to use Google’s free transcription tools

The Verge

Video and audio recordings are all well and good, but a text version of your meeting can be a lot easier to search if you’re looking for that one specific bit of data inside of an hour’s worth of conversation. There are a number of third-party apps out there that provide AI transcribing for recorded audio, such as Rev and Otter.ai.

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Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 review: Apple's first earbuds with heart-rate tracking

Engadget

Given its been nearly six years since the original, there are understandably substantial improvements to audio quality and battery life, as well as the addition of active noise cancellation (ANC). That component assists with everything from heart-rate monitoring to Spatial Audio and ANC.

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Papercup, the UK startup using AI for realistic-sounding voice translation, raises £8M funding

TechCrunch

based AI startup that has developed speech technology that translates people’s voices into other languages and is already being used in the video and television industry, has raised £8 million in funding. It is pitched as a much more scalable and therefore lower-cost alternative to pure human dubbing. Papercup , the U.K.-based

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AVFormer: Injecting vision into frozen speech models for zero-shot AV-ASR

Google Research AI blog

While the challenges for this technology are centered around noisy audio inputs, the visual stream in multimodal videos (e.g., In contrast, the models themselves are typically large and consist of both visual and audio encoders, and so they tend to overfit on these small datasets. LibriSpeech ).

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An Accessibility & Inclusion Checklist for Virtual Events

Forum One

For example, can you live stream the sessions, can you make sure participants joining by phone have a positive audio-only experience? Use plain language. Use inclusive language. Reference APA Style: Bias-Free Language. Include alternative text for images. What other options could you offer? Define specialty terms.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Making the world more accessible with web design

Candid

It’s the idea that anyone in the world, regardless of location, language, disability, or platform, can participate or engage with something. Web accessibility is the idea that everyone can use all internet content, regardless of location, device, language, or ability. Accessibility by itself refers to the “ability to access.”