TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The company is already pushing into new demographics — Roblox announced that it would foster mature content for 17+ users earlier this year — and a new animated video calling product launching later this […]

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Companies that help businesses integrate voice and video communication into their apps and services have proliferated in recent years, with services such as Twilio and Diagflow, an NLP platform developed by Google, burgeoning. million so far to do similar things, and is now launching the beta version of its Avatar product.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

And it’s against that backdrop that a fledgling startup called Tavus is looking to make its mark by enabling companies to create “unique” videos tailored to a specific individual, but based entirely on a single initial recording. Then, the user records a template for each campaign they want to create.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. You need a good avatar. Social media is not free!

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The 44-second clip Meta shared on Instagram over the weekend shows misshapen avatar characters sitting in a circle of chairs while discussing their breakups (because of Valentine's Day, apparently?) Will one of the tech reporters following me please investigate how this Meta Horizon promo video happened.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Generative AI is coming for videos. A new website, QuickVid , combines several generative AI systems into a single tool for automatically creating short-form YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat videos. Going after video. First, a user enters a prompt describing the subject matter of the video they want to create.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Over time and through implementing the best practices listed below and those yet to come, you will find your Google+ voice. A unique, authentic Google+ voice.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In an increasingly post-literate world , companies continue to turn to video to communicate with key stakeholders, and two of this years business services honorees help enterprises produce streamable content more efficiently.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Dipity :: dipity.com. It is a must download! oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Over time and through implementing the best practices listed below and those yet to come, you will find your Google+ voice. A unique, authentic Google+ voice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Synthesia , an AI video generation platform, is looking to make video content creation as simple and efficient as possible, and FirstMark is taking a bet on it making the world better, and not worse. Think training videos and company- or department-wide video updates. The company has just announced the close of a $12.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

WellSaid came out of the Allen Institute for AI incubator in 2019 , and its goal was to make synthetic voices that didn’t sound so robotic for common business purposes like training and marketing content. It achieved that first by basing its solution on Tacotron, a speech engine developed by Google and academic researchers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When it comes to integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the nonprofit sector, there’s an emerging trend that organizations need to be mindful of – the use of humanoid AI avatars. As these avatars become more human-like, people’s positive responses towards them tend to increase.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. It’s easier and more powerful to use Twitter’s mobile app to upload and archive photos and videos to Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As our working world sees more shifts to the metaverse, Pesto , formerly known as Pragli, is jumping in with its avatar approach to making remote work a little less lonely. We founded Pesto because we were tired of being stuck between text chat tools and video conferencing,” Safreno added. “We

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

That proved to be too ambitious, so instead, the Rephrase team developed an AI system that creates avatars of human actors by mapping their faces, synchronizing their lip movements, and mimicking the tone and tenor of their voices. They can then export that video for use in sales tools. The tech isn’t particularly novel.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Maverick Lab , a business-to-business personalized video messaging startup, aims to help e-commerce entrepreneurs send more personalized messages using deepfakes. In addition, the company decided to go with humans rather than avatars like others are doing. “We Deepfake tech isn’t new. After that, they can set it and forget it.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Posted by Arsha Nagrani and Paul Hongsuck Seo, Research Scientists, Google Research Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a well-established technology that is widely adopted for various applications such as conference calls, streamed video transcription and voice commands.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. It’s simply easier to use Twitter’s mobile app to upload and archive photos and videos to Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. It’s easier and more powerful to use Twitter’s mobile app to upload and archive photos and videos to Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2018, the startup initially focused on conversational AI, aiming to build cutting-edge, top-of-the-line voice recognition and speech synthesis tech. After tapping a camera-equipped device to record a few seconds of video, users upload the footage to MeetKai Reality, which renders the captured space in VR.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The same applies to messages in a If somebody who chose to Ignore an account joins a voice or video chat where that ignored person is present, Discord will show a warning alerting them before they hop into the call. A list of all ignored and blocked accounts is visible within the Content & Social tab of User Settings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While companies like Branch and Gather look like video games with a productivity element, Nooks skips the avatar feel altogether, looking closer to Teamflow or Tandem. The company uses a video API to let each person take up little orbs of space, and adds integrations of platforms like Google Docs, YouTube, Asana or GitHub.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Skittish looks like a very cute version of social spaces in video games like Second Life or VRChat but built specifically to host online events. If you’ve played a game with proximity-based voice chat , it’s a similar concept.) Here's a little tour of our work in progress. They weren’t social in any meaningful way.”

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But with extra features—links, attachments, video, social media follow buttons—the opportunity for mistakes also becomes greater. Even native English speakers get tripped up on where apostrophes live in plural words, when to properly use pronouns, and how to avoid the passive voice. Let us be honest: English is hard.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The video game industry is no exception to this, and that hardly comes as a surprise. Formerly the CEO of API.ai, a natural language startup that once offered voice assistant software for Android, Gelfenbeyn joined Google following its acquisition of API.ai and its intellectual property.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

It was there that Zuckerberg first appeared through his webcam before donning a headset and teleporting into a chair at the table as his own legless avatar. Up to 16 people in VR can be in a Workroom together, while an additional 34 people can join over video call without wearing a headset. A larger factor is the Quest’s spatial audio.

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TechNode

AUGUST 1, 2024

Each digital human has its own avatar, nickname, and profile, and users can choose according to their interests and hobbies. You can enter the chat interface after clicking on the digital human’s avatar. The digital human will reply in the form of voice and text.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

” It’s worth noting that Soul Machines’ other co-founder, Mark Sagar, has won Academy Awards for his AI engineering efforts creating the characters in the films “Avatar” and “King Kong.” ” She responded by pulling up a YouTube video of “I’ll Stand by You” by The Pretenders.

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