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Voice Actor for Aloy in "Horizon" Games Creeped Out by AI Version of Her Character

Futurism

Ashly Burch, the voice actor behind Aloy from the acclaimed PlayStation titles Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Hidden West, has responded to the leaked tech demo showing off a clumsy but uncanny AI imitation of her performance as the character. Nonetheless, it's an upsetting spectacle.

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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

TechCrunch

Voice skins” have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants, to help personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, yet also kind of bland and robotic, speaking voices you get on services like Alexa. Our goal is to be a global leader in providing AI voices that touches people’s hearts and emotions.

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Twitter is now testing its Clubhouse-like voice chat rooms

The Verge

Twitter has begun testing its Spaces feature, the voice-based chat rooms it first announced last month. what up y’all, we're the team behind Spaces––a small experiment focused on the intimacy of the human voice — Spaces (@TwitterSpaces) December 17, 2020. aye we’re live! The Spaces interface for a listener.

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How And Why To Run A Nonprofit Focus Group

Bloomerang

If you’re looking to collect feedback from your constituents, you may want to consider holding a nonprofit focus group. What’s the point of a nonprofit focus group and when should you hold one? Although there are many benefits to holding a nonprofit focus group, the main goal is to collect specific data from a certain group of people.

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How nonprofits can deepen corporate partnerships

Candid

They help amplify the nonprofits’ voice, reach, and resources to advance their mission while strengthening corporate employees’ community engagement and improving their well-being and job satisfaction, according to a Deloitte survey.

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Async replaces work calls with asynchronous voice messages

TechCrunch

Could they be a series of voice messages and quick text replies? While voice messages are increasingly popular in consumer messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, this communication method hasn’t taken off in a business context — or at least, not yet. Alternatively, you can add recipients to your voice message directly in Async.

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10 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Helpen is an interesting fundraising concept that combines voice giving with print. Virtual Quiz Events allows nonprofits to host online quiz event fundraisers for large groups of people. Best for local nonprofits, GroupRaise empowers nonprofits to partner with restaurants for fundraising. Helpen :: helpen.com.