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Universal Speech Model (USM): State-of-the-art speech AI for 100+ languages

Google Research AI blog

USM is a family of state-of-the-art speech models with 2B parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text, spanning 300+ languages. A sample of the languages that USM supports. For en-US, USM has a 6% relative lower WER compared to the current internal state-of-the-art model.

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NVIDIA NIM Microservices Now Available to Streamline Agentic Workflows on RTX AI PCs and Workstations

NVIDIA AI Blog

Announced at the CES trade show in January, NVIDIA NIM provides prepackaged, state-of-the-art AI models optimized for the NVIDIA RTX platform, including the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series and, now, the new NVIDIA Blackwell RTX PRO GPUs. The microservices are easy to download and run. G-Assist was built for community-driven expansion.

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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop's archive is now available to sample

Engadget

In addition to developing those signature sounds, members' work also laid early foundations for creating electronic music and sampling. Now, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop library is being offered to today's creators to sample through a collaboration between Spitfire Audio and BBC Studios.

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The Art of Retweet Birthday Party: Enlist the Help of Your Top Retweeters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. What have you learned about the art of retweet? It's my 53rd birthday on Monday and here's my birthday party plans.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2) Master the Art of Prompting Prompting is the language we use to communicate with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Results may not always be perfect, and it can be disheartening when outputs don’t meet expectations. Some individuals might try ChatGPT, encounter a subpar output, and give up. This brings us to our next point.

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Training on your new database

Robert Weiner

It's an art. Train end users on a sample database, not production data. The sample database should be configured with your own codes, menus, security settings, and any customizations. I discussed training at a high level on page 13 of this chapter from CASE's Handbook of Institutional Advancement. Not everyone can train.

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Community Building begins with Community Organizing

Amy Sample Ward

If you know your followers are into LBS, then be in that community and reward their activity in unique ways, such as check in 3 times and get an unique BK Art Star Badge. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Being active in the community leads to organizational engagement, creates community, builds followers.

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