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Fury to fight Usyk for undisputed heavyweight crown on February 17
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Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool: Six things we learned from Stamford Bridge cracker
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Marketmind: Dot plots, oil blots and auto strikes
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Spirit Airlines CEO defends JetBlue merger in US antitrust trial
By Nate Raymond BOSTON The CEO of Spirit Airlines on Wednesday defended in court the planned $3.8 billion
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ING announces new buyback programme, Q3 income miss drags shares lower
By Diana Mandia and Matteo Allievi (Reuters) -ING Groep, the largest Dutch bank, on Thursday announced its second share buyback
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Spanish Protests Against Catalan Amnesty Deal Escalate
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Vatican recalls stamp celebrating Portugal's colonial empire after complaints
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Taliban welcomes China's new ambassador to Afghanistan in lavish ceremony
The Taliban has welcomed Zhao Sheng as China's new ambassador to Afghanistan during a lavish ceremony held at the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday.
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Spotify makes AI voice clones of podcasters and uses them to speak other languages
Spotify has cloned the voices of its top podcasters and will use them to translate podcasts into other languages. Presenters including Lex Fridman and Kristen Bell now have podcasts on Spotify in which they interview their guests in Spanish – despite those conversations never actually having happened. Instead, Spotify took those podcasts and used a range of artificial intelligence technologies to create a match of their voice. They then translated the podcasts and used the voice clone to read them back out, giving an interview that is in another language but nonetheless sounds as if it was being spoken by the actual presenters. The company hopes that the technology means that people can listen to natural-sounding podcasts that were originally English – even if they do not speak the language. The technology is available for a limited number of podcasts in Spanish already, and Spotify will collect them in a devoted part of the app, and will also appear as a suggestion when someone starts listening to a relevant podcast. Soon it expects to use the technology for French and German, and will apply it to more podcasts. “By matching the creator’s own voice, Voice Translation gives listeners around the world the power to discover and be inspired by new podcasters in a more authentic way than ever before,” said Ziad Sultan, Spotify’s vice president of personalisation, in a statement. “We believe that a thoughtful approach to AI can help build deeper connections between listeners and creators, a key component of Spotify’s mission to unlock the potential of human creativity.” Spotify has already rolled out a number of other AI-powered features, including its AI DJ, which not only chooses songs but uses an artificial voice to introduce them. Like that AI DJ, the new translation technology is built on tools provided by OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT. It said the current techologies are “just the beginning”. “The creator and audience feedback from the pilot will provide important insights for future expansion, iterations, and innovations,” Spotify said in its announcement, and it said it would “continue exploring new ways to overcome barriers to storytelling”. Read More Tesla robot shown practising yoga Meta plans to develop ‘sassy robot’ chatbot for young users, report says Nasa just delivered a piece of a distant asteroid to Earth
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Homework will 'never be the same' says ChatGPT founder
Artificial intelligence tools will revolutionise education like calculators did, but will not supplant learning, ChatGPT's founder Sam Altman told students in Tokyo on...
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Ryan Phillippe is 'thankful for the freedom that comes with breaking addictions' as he celebrates sobriety milestone
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