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

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We plan on hiring heavily across all functions, from machine learning, artificial intelligence and product development to marketing and business development. The movie Spiral, the latest film of the Saw Series, features LOVO’s voice in the film, he noted.

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New Series: Creating Media with Machine Learning

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By Vi Iyengar , Keila Fong , Hossein Taghavi , Andy Yao , Kelli Griggs , Boris Chen , Cristina Segalin , Apurva Kansara , Grace Tang , Billur Engin , Amir Ziai , James Ray , Jonathan Solorzano-Hamilton Welcome to the first post in our multi-part series on how Netflix is developing and using machine learning (ML) to help creators make better media?—?from

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Supporting content decision makers with machine learning

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Our catalog of thousands of films and series caters to 195M+ members in over 190 countries who span a broad and diverse range of tastes. The commissioning of a series or film, which we refer to as a title , is a creative decision. as is the uncertainty of the outcome (it is difficult to predict which shows or films will become hits).

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Annotell raises $24M for tech that tests autonomous vehicle perception systems to improve how they work

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The gap in the market that Annotell is looking to fill is a pretty critical one: autonomous systems are built on huge troves of driving data and machine learning used to process that information to “teach” those platforms the basics of driving. We also take that seriously. That’s why we wanted to focus on the problem.”

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Audio Analysis With Machine Learning: Building AI-Fueled Sound Detection App

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Today, we have AI and machine learning to extract insights, inaudible to human beings, from speech, voices, snoring, music, industrial and traffic noise, and other types of acoustic signals. At the same time, keep in mind that neither of those and other audio files can be fed directly to machine learning models.

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VFX artists show that Hollywood can use AI to create, not exploit

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Hollywood may be embroiled in ongoing labor disputes that involve AI, but the technology infiltrated film and TV long, long ago. At SIGGRAPH in LA, algorithmic and generative tools were on display in countless talks and announcements. We may not know where the likes of GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion …

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How DPG Media uses Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Transcribe to enhance video metadata with AI-powered pipelines

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Variability in content volume – They offer a range of content volume, from single-episode films to multi-season series. Tom Lauwers is a machine learning engineer on the video personalization team for DPG Media. Some local shows feature Flemish dialects, which can be difficult for some large language models (LLMs) to understand.

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