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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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YouTube will stop making most original shows

The Verge

YouTube will scale back a significant portion of YouTube Originals, which produced original content including scripted series, educational videos, and music and celebrity programming. Created in 2016 and led by Susanne Daniels, it began with scripted shows and movies focused on creators, like comedy-thriller series Scare PewDiePie.

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Adthos uses generative AI to completely automate audio ads

TechCrunch

Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. To generate ad scripts, Adthos leverages OpenAI’s recently released GPT-4 text-producing model. “We use real-life voice actors for the training of synthetic voices.

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QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers

TechCrunch

Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library. Image Credits: QuickVid. Or this one: [link].

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AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI

TechCrunch

The platform, geared toward podcasters and videographers unfamiliar with professional-level editing tools, lets users create instant transcriptions of audio and video that can then be cut and paired with music, photos and other content using drag-and-drop tools.

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Want to increase your brand’s relevancy? Partner up with tween YouTube stars

The Next Web

In some cases, scripting the direction of the video can help control the message sent to viewers as long as its inline with the YouTube stars typical voice. For the 2013 Video Music Awards, MTV invited multiple tween influencers from YouTube, Vine and elsewhere to interview celebrities and record their experience on the red carpet.

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Beats Studio Buds review: big ambition, imperfect execution

The Verge

You can customize the long-press to activate a voice assistant instead, but that’s as far as Beats lets you switch things up. The Studio Buds support hands-free “Hey Siri” voice commands. Voice call performance was pretty rough outdoors in busy environments, and callers found it difficult to make out my voice from the background noise.

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