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SwoonMe uses avatars and audio for its ‘less superficial’ dating app

TechCrunch

Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe’s idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone’s personality, not their appearance. To use the app, you take a selfie which SwoonMe converts into an avatar. This is what others will see when they come to your profile.

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Neosapience gets $21.5M to use AI-powered synthetic avatars for creators 

TechCrunch

Last month, it added an AI-powered video (avatar) feature that looks like a real person. Most of its users are primarily creators and enterprise clients that use the tool for creating a video or audio content for their business or personal channels like vlogs and games, Kim told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Neosapience. raises $1.5M

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. Trottr : Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. Favstar.fm : Favstar.fm allows you to see the most favorited tweets across Twitter at any given time.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Dipity :: dipity.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter. WeePlaces :: weeplaces.com.

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Twitter to start testing voice DMs

The Verge

After rolling out audio tweets for iOS in June, Twitter is now experimenting with the idea of letting people record and send voice messages through direct messages. Similar to voice tweets, voice messages have a bare-bones, simple interface: there’s just a play / pause button, and the sender’s avatar pulsates as the message plays.

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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., AVATAR ), which investigates the contribution of entire visual frames, and not just the mouth region. Building audiovisual datasets for training AV-ASR models, however, is challenging. LibriSpeech ).

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