Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The radical flank effect shows that when radical activists push boundaries, they often make moderate voices in the same movement appear more reasonable. George Ferns is a senior lecturer in business and society at the University of Bath. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

based AI startup that has developed speech technology that translates people’s voices into other languages and is already being used in the video and television industry, has raised £8 million in funding. Our aim is to generate translated voices that sound as close to the original speaker as possible”. Papercup , the U.K.-based

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

When Anada Lakra and Ilya Usorov first moved to the United States, they struggled to find their voices. While Lakra, who just started college at Yale University, was constantly asked to repeat herself. The company tried launching a chatbot in its early days to help users practice conversations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

RedRoute , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. That’s when they realized there was an opportunity to fix the back-end channels of customer service and contact centers. Image Credits: RedRoute.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

With AIs help, you can map out your own universe of awesome. Use your voice: If talking jogs your memory, use conversation mode in ChatGPT , Claude , Googles Gemini , or Microsofts CoPilot. Experimental Advanced, Googles newest model, was an excellent voice partner in analyzing my current reading interests. Limitation: 2.0

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. It debuted Google Voice Search in 2011, then upgraded it to Google Now in 2012; launched Assistant in 2016; and in numerous I/Os since, has foregrounded speech-driven, ambient computing, often with demos of seamless home life orchestrated by Google. Can it be done?

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NetWits

MARCH 26, 2013

And finally, you’ve got your outposts : the places that you neither own nor control, but where your voice might occasionally show up; where other organizations’ voices are being heard; and where people are talking about you and your cause (bulletin boards, community social events, neighborhood association meetings).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

And Favret is quick to stress that while sales and marketing are obvious use-cases for its technology, it isn’t purely about those verticals — it’s seeing uptake from “an eclectic group of users,” including recruiters, university deans, and C-level executives.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Is it possible to build a voice assistant for the call center that can pick up on indirect questions to figure out the best time to hand calls over to a human? Generally speaking, customers don’t look forward to any automated experiences over the phone, which means voice assistants have to go the extra mile to create goodwill.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

EdSights uses AI chatbots to help colleges and universities identify students who might be at risk of dropping out, in part by increasing student engagement. Over the last year, CodeSignal also launched a product called Conversation Practice to help engineers and developers who are newer to the job market improve their soft skills.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Learning a language can be a challenging journey that takes a lot of mental energy, Hartman notes; you’re learning things like how to order food in Spanish, phrases that would be useful to communicate with other speakers, but maybe not the most scintillating conversation material. “So Finding universal names. Keeping the Duo Design.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Why is SMS the perfect conduit for richer and more holistic consumer experiences within mobile universe? Even voice programs and the incorporation of links within texts to drive traffic to a mobile website — all of these features incentivize consumers to further engage with the brand and become more connected across multiple channels.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

We saw the need to start raising our voice a little more, to start organizing ourselves, to see what we could do, how we could make the case visible, how we could raise our voices among so many,” says Baruc. A mural of Wendy Sánchez outside El Gallo restaurant in San Francisco (San Pancho), Nayarit, Mexico. “We

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The dataset is the biggest of its kind ever created, and Facebook partnered with 13 universities around the world to collect the data. The universities, rather than Facebook, were responsible for collecting the data. Facebook helped collect 3,205 hours of first-person footage from around the world.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Avowed is a first-person, open-world RPG from Obsidian and its a spin-off of the studios Pillars of Eternity series, but it introduces an entirely fresh storyline and map, and doesnt require any existing knowledge of that universe. Avowed is full of life and its history was written with a deft hand.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

"Without that sense of connection, employees will never each their full potential," states Stallard. Give their best effort. Align their behavior with organizational goals. Help improve the quality of decisions. Actively contribution to innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Over the past year or so, voice transcription startup Otter.ai “You see a lot of teams that are using Otter in the business and you see a lot of students and universities that are using Otter for accessibility. Otter.ai, however, is not a service meant for highly confidential conversations. CMO Kurt Apen. Plus, Otter.ai

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 11th). But how is Congress responding?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Like its predecessor, the Streaming Avatar can communicate in 175 languages, switching from one to another in mid-conversation.HeyGens 2024 advancements also introduced real-time video translation tools that preserve the speakers voice and style, as well as new integrations like PowerPoint-to-video conversion that streamline content creation.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It was daring and controversial and aimed to destigmatize mental health issues and encourage open conversations. While the campaign generated some controversy, it succeeded in its primary goal of sparking conversations about mental health. The campaign directed viewers to a helpline for those in crisis which saw a huge uplift in calls.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

They have historically been left out of the conversation, but want to give their time and resources to make the biggest social impact possible. Directly asking how they would like to be involved is an effective way to engage young individuals and make their voices heard. Explore networking. A lifelong resident of Wisconsin, Ms.

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Candid

JULY 18, 2023

Whether these megadonors are on your radar, their voices are shaping broader conversations in the philanthropic sector about what and who gets funded, as well as how that funding materializes. That’s potentially a lot of philanthropy.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I was also unaccustomed to having to find all my own resources; I had spent the previous 15 years of my career working in higher education with access to a university research library, enterprise platform subscriptions, and myriad other resources. I’d taken it for granted that these resources were just there.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 18, 2022

Lots of devices don't even have headphone jacks now, so going wireless is becoming the more universal option. Some headphones feature different ANC modes, such as “transparency mode”, which allows certain noises to get through, such as other people’s voices. And we are talking headphones, rather than earbuds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As I joked in a recent conversation with a colleague, human rights activists “are the 1%” but the issues we face are relevant to the 99% of other users. A few years back a fellow activist asked how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could be embedded into Web 2.0 and that phrase still sticks with me. Sam Gregory.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Both Varun and I came from liberal schools and the general concept of a university was a big culture shock. When you have an HR:employee ratio of 1:300, 40% of their time is spent manually tracking, collecting and analyzing feedback and it becomes humanly impossible to give employees the voice they need,” Jain said.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

You can amplify a difficult-to-hear conversation through an earpiece or highlight a hard-to-see detail in your surroundings. Now imagine the same world — but your glasses scan every conversation to personalize a barrage of advertising. You can seamlessly pull up translations for any street sign or instructions for any task.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

We need to normalize those conversations, and then involve our children in acting with us for the climate. It’s important to know a little about the issue and what some good resources are, to help us have those conversations. The parent voice carries acute moral and emotional weight. Start talking about it!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. The company has digital people repping the World Health Organization, Maryville University, Westpac bank, the New Zealand police, and SK-II skincare.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The company was founded in 2017 by a team of six music and audio research scientists, including Han, who completed his PhD in music information retrieval at Seoul National University. “We have to take care about all different frequency ranges, and there are not only voices, but really thousands of sounds out there,” Han said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

And in certain cases, external voices. Although these conversations can sometimes be difficult, companies who are intentional in addressing these issues must do so head-on. Air Force and Accenture, where users enter a simulated real-world environment to practice tough conversations using their own voice.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. How to pick the best tools for your particular collaboration challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. What should governments, universities and companies do? Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. We reflected. We adapted.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The global firms we work with know that having different voices and perspectives is essential to enhancing how teams function. For example, diversity of educational backgrounds means that companies are increasingly recognizing that they need to recruit from a wider range of colleges and universities around the world.

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