TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence-powered voice and video technologies have been gaining steady popularity in recent years. A Korean startup called Neosapience has developed a synthetic voice and video platform, Typecast , that lets users turn text into a video without recording and editing in a studio. . raises $1.5M

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

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. As they communicate, their avatar will slowly unveil their real photo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Synthesia allows anyone to turn text or a slide deck presentation into a video, complete with a talking avatar. Customers can leverage existing avatars, created from the performance of actors, or create their own in minutes by uploading some video. ” Since raising a $12.5 Riparbelli cited Ernst & Young as an example customer.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AI speech synthesis is quick, easy, and uncannily good Cloning your voice using artificial intelligence is simultaneously tedious and simple: hallmarks of a technology that’s just about mature and ready to go public. Voice clones aren’t perfect, but they’re improving fast. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

At its annual developer’s conference, Roblox detailed its near-future plans to expand beyond its identity as a game platform for kids.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Synthesia One of the leading AI video creation platforms, Synthesia , allows users to generate professional training videos using AI-generated avatars. Key Benefits of AI Video Tools : AI avatars simplify video production. is an AI voiceover platform that transforms text into speech using human-like voices. Similarly, Murf.ai

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Find your Facebook voice. Find your Twitter voice. Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts. Experiment with social media dashboards. Purchase a digital camera.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Another honoree, HeyGen , launched a streaming avatar that enhances real-time interactions, creating more useful chatbots and tutors. As part of its ongoing efforts to infuse its products with AI-powered capabilities, Adobe released a new tool that transforms still images into video in less than two minutes, guided only by text prompts.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

On October 21, Radio Krakow announced that it was revamping its OFF station, introducing three AI-created voice hosts representing Generation Z.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Now, once you have completed the verification process via text or voice, you will land on page where you can complete the process of setting up your Google Profile: 3. Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Set up your Google Profile.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Amazon is building a new large language model akin to OpenAI’s GPT-4 to power its Alexa voice assistant. Almost every aspect of the experience can be customized, from the avatars and their animations to Moemate’s synthetic voices and responses. And so they’re being remade. GPT-4 versus Claude).

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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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Heather will like, follow, and subscribe to all your communities and analyze the quality of content being posted and the “voice” behind your nonprofit’s avatar, as well as the design and utilization of the tool set of each site.

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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

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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

You need a good avatar. It’s the number one, first-voiced complaint in every webinar and social media training that I give. The level of frustration ranges from simply voicing that they can not longer keep up with all their job duties to the fact they are eagerly looking for another job.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now, once you have completed the verification process via text or voice, you will land on page where you can complete the process of setting up your Google Profile: 3. Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. That said, you can set your Google+ profile to private. Set up your Google Profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Heather will like, follow, and subscribe to all your communities and analyze the quality of content being posted and the “voice” behind your nonprofit’s avatar, as well as the design and utilization of the tool set of each site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

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. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. writing does not permit.

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Engadget

APRIL 10, 2025

Synthesia creates avatars for corporate videos about topics such as cybersecurity and good communication at work. Typically, Synthesia uses actors to create avatars, paying to use their likeness for three years. " Synthesia stated in a release. " Synthesia stated in a release.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

And then there is London-based Synthesia , backed by a swathe of high-profile investors , which is more about creating digital avatars from text for use in training and how-to videos. Certainly, there’s no shortage of deepfake chicanery examples from across the video and voice spectrum.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji — those cutely grotesque customizable avatars — and painting. Our goal with Bitmoji has always been to be the world’s avatar, to give people a digital version of themselves that represents them and lets them be themselves online,” says Ba Blackstock, co-founder of Bitmoji. It’s Snap Inc.’s

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Capitalizing on the recent tech boom, AI-powered digital companions and digital twin avatars are rapidly emerging as alternatives to human relationships. avatar chatbot platform Ex-human and ex-head of A.I. A 2024 Harvard study found that 21% of U.S. at Replika, tells Fast Company.

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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?) My ex broke up with me via text using emojis," one avatar says in the video while waving his arms around. "I

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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. Zoom fatigue” was real for Doug Safreno and his co-founder, Vivek Nair, who started batting around the idea for a company in 2019 and made it official a year later.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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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. “This is the problem Rephrase aims to solve.” The tech isn’t particularly novel.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Dress up your avatar with some Epic Thanks love at [link]. The event is founded by Epic Change, a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization I love that amplifies the voices and impact of grassroots changemakers who need to be heard. Follow and contribute to the in the EpicThanks interviews on Twitter via #EpicThanks.

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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. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. Upload more photos. Gowalla is out of business.

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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. To round out the new product suite, MeetKai is launching MeetKai Cloud AI, which allows developers to plug a cloud-driven voice assistant into an existing virtual environment.

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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. We also show performances on LibriSpeech which is audio-only.

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NetWits

MARCH 1, 2012

Customize your account by adding an avatar and completely filling out your profile. HSUS is America’s mainstream force against cruelty, exploitation and neglect, as well as the most trusted voice extolling the human-animal bond. Create a products board . A products board should be part of your overall presence on Pinterest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), If your communities are not growing, then something is missing from your social media strategy (good content, right voice, e-newsletter, blogging, etc).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In addition, the company decided to go with humans rather than avatars like others are doing. “We Customers record a 30-second video once, and the company’s technology uses the voice samples to generate thousands of videos that are personalized to each customer using deep learning models and audio/video processing techniques.

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