AI-coustics to fight noisy audio with generative AINoisy recordings of interviews and speeches are the bane of audio engineers’ existence.
According to co-founder and CEO Fabian Seipel, AI-coustics’ technology goes beyond standard noise suppression to work across — and with — any device and speaker.
“We’ve been driven by a personal mission to overcome the pervasive challenge of poor audio quality in digital communications,” Seipel said.
But Seipel says AI-coustics has a unique approach to developing the AI mechanisms that do the actual noise reduction work.
“Speech quality and intelligibility still is an annoying problem in nearly every consumer or pro-device as well as in content production or consumption.
The Reddit and Astera Labs IPOs last week ate up a lot of media oxygen.
And with good reason, the two tech IPOs priced well and traded with even more gusto.
After a long dearth for technology offerings, seeing two large, multi-billion dollar offerings in the same week was part of a much-needed win for private-market tech companies, and sigh of relief for the same.
But there was another offering last week that has a tech-angle to it: Trump Media and Technology Group, which is the company behind Truth Social.
More from TechCrunch here, but the gist is that after much back-and-forth, it merged with its chosen SPAC and started to trade.
Spotify has carved out a business for itself in music streaming, podcast entertainment and audiobooks.
Starting with a rollout in the U.K., Spotify is testing the waters for an online education offering of freemium video courses.
Mohit Jitani, the London-based product director for the education business, said in an interview that pricing choices were part of what it’s testing.
Around half of Spotify Premium subscribers have listened to education or self-help themed podcasts, Spotify says.
Offering educational content aimed at running a business, or improving your music production, fits with that.
NBCUniversal’s Peacock will let you watch four live streams at once for 2024 Paris OlympicsToday, during NBCUniversal’s annual technology conference, One24, the company revealed a slew of features coming to its streaming service Peacock ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics in July.
Since up to 40 Olympic events will be happening simultaneously, the unique offering helps viewers determine which four events are the most important.
Peacock’s multiview feature is not only available on the web, but also on smart TVs, streaming devices, and tablets.
The feature lets fans watch highlights of a game to quickly catch up without having to exit out of the main screen.
The company noted that multiview and Live Actions will extend to other live sporting events after the Olympics.
I’m getting hacked, I’m getting hacked bro, I’m getting hacked,” said one of the players allegedly compromised during a live stream of the gameplay.
On Tuesday, Respawn, the studio that develops Apex Legends posted a statement on X (formerly Twitter), addressing the incidents.
Conor Ford, who works on Apex Legends security team, wrote on X that he and his colleagues are working to address the issues.
Or other video game hacking incidents?
Or other video game hacking incidents?
In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media even as tech giants expressed grave concerns about it last year.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT on Wednesday wrote in a gazette notification that it is cementing into law its proposal from last year about making the fact checking unit of Press Information Bureau the dedicated arbiter of truth for New Delhi matters.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcast established the fact checking unit of Press Information Bureau in 2019 with the aim to dispel misinformation about government matters.
The unit, however, has been criticized for falsely labelling information critical to the government as misleading.
Relying on a government agency such as the Press Information Bureau as the sole source to fact-check government business without giving it a clear definition or providing clear checks and balances “may lead to misuse during implementation of the law, which will profoundly infringe on press freedom,” Asia Internet Coalition, an industry group that represents Meta, Amazon, Google and Apple cautioned last year.
Watchworthy will now tell you which streaming services to cancel and which to keepTV recommendation app Watchworthy released two new features to give viewers access to more personalized recommendations, including a new recommendation category for streaming services and a collaborative watchlist to get movie suggestions for your entire friend group.
Watchworthy is best known for its “worthy” score, which tells you the likelihood that a TV show or movie is worth your time.
For instance, if you’re obsessed with home improvement shows, Watchworthy recommends Discovery+ as a top pick, listing it as 95-99% worthy.
As major streaming services continue increasing subscription costs, viewers are having a hard time deciding which subscription is worth investing in.
Watchworthy helps you discover over 200 streaming services, such as Netflix, Max, Disney+ Prime Video, Peacock, Paramount+, Apple TV+, and Hulu, among others.
The biggest content creator on YouTube, MrBeast announced on Monday that he’s filming a game show for Amazon’s Prime Video.
On X, he wrote: “Big news gamers I’m going to be filming the largest game show in history and releasing it on Prime Video!
Over 1,000 contestants, $5,000,000 prize, and many other world records.”Big news gamers I’m going to be filming the largest game show in history and releasing it on Prime Video!
Prime Video has leveraged big name creators to develop new shows in the past.
“It’s going to be the largest game show in history, with the most contestants any game show has ever had, with the largest cash prize in history,” MrBeast said in an interview with YouTubers Colin and Samir.
YouTube is now requiring creators to disclose to viewers when realistic content was made with AI, the company announced on Monday.
YouTube says the new policy doesn’t require creators to disclose content that is clearly unrealistic or animated, such as someone riding a unicorn through a fantastical world.
It also isn’t requiring creators to disclose content that used generative AI for production assistance, like generating scripts or automatic captions.
They will also have to disclose content that alters the footage of real events or places, such as making it seem as though a real building caught on fire.
Creators will also have to disclose when they have generated realistic scenes of fictional major events, like a tornado moving toward a real town.
Two months ago, media giant Fox Corp. partnered with Polygon Labs, the team behind the Ethereum-focused layer-2 blockchain, to tackle deepfake distrust.
Fox and Polygon launched Verify, a protocol that aims to protect their IP while letting consumers verify the authenticity of content.
“When you put that content on chain, you can now validate that content was created by a certain individual or brand,” Blank said.
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