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Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins

Ars Technica

The WDP creates video and audio recordings of dolphins, along with correlating notes on their behaviors. One of the WDP's main goals is to analyze the way dolphins vocalize and how that can affect their social interactions.

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New Tech Bends Sound Through Space So It Reaches Only Your Ear in a Crowd

Singularity Hub

The ability to send sound that becomes audible only at a specific location could transform entertainment, communication, and spatial audio experiences. Certain audio technologies, such as parametric array loudspeakers , can create focused sound beams aimed in a specific direction. What Is Sound? How did we do this?

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One Foot in Two Worlds—Expert Advice on Hybrid Events, Podcasts, and AV Tech

.orgSource

Over the last 25 years, Laird’s company, Ian Ryan Interactive, has been my go-to for audio-visual success. Laird Crawford has straddled the virtual and in-person worlds for some time now. He edits the mumbles out of podcasts and makes people look better on video than they do in person. You can probably guess that in […].

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Instreamatic, which inserts interactive voice ads into audio streams, raises $6.1M Series A round

TechCrunch

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers. Need help sleeping?”

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Apple AirPods 4 have never been cheaper ahead of Amazons Big Spring Sale

Mashable Tech

SEE ALSO: 200+ of the best Amazon deals live ahead of its Big Spring Sale, hand-picked by Mashable's team of experts The AirPods 4 earbuds are powered by the H2 chip which provides crisp audio quality for a better listening experience. They also feature Personalized Spatial Audio so you can feel completely immersed in sound all around you.

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AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot

TechCrunch

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice.

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Visual Blocks for ML: Accelerating machine learning prototyping with interactive tools

Google Research AI blog

We demonstrate how this platform enables a better model evaluation experience through interactive characterization and visualization of ML model performance and interactive data augmentation and comparison. Study participants included seven computer vision researchers, audio ML researchers, and engineers across three ML teams.