The NBA utilizes GenAI technology from WSC Sports to generate automated multilingual voice-over commentary for game highlights, achieving over 75% viewer completion rates in French, Portuguese, and Spanish, with plans to expand to more languages and AI content creation applications.
Krisp, a company known for its noise-cancellation technology, has unveiled an AI tool that can convert a speaker's accent to American English in real-time, supporting over 17 Indian dialects initially and plans to add more accents like Filipino, offering a free 60-minute daily usage or a $15/month unlimited plan.
Otter unveils AI meeting assistants that actively participate through voice interaction, joining meetings, accessing data, scheduling follow-ups, and drafting emails, initially on Zoom with plans to expand to other virtual platforms.
OpenAI unveiled powerful new AI models for speech transcription and text-to-speech generation, offering developers more accurate and customizable voice experiences, but with controlled access due to their large size and complexity, unlike previous open-source releases.
Amazon's integration of Suno's AI song generation into Alexa raises concerns as Suno faces a lawsuit alleging ingestion of copyrighted music, potentially enabling users to generate AI songs that could replace listening to original works and undermining Amazon's own deals with labels.
Zoom unveils an AI assistant capable of scheduling meetings, transcribing conversations, generating documents, creating video clips, recording and summarizing in-person meetings, and providing real-time live meeting notes, with custom avatar options available for a fee.
Amazon's decision to eliminate local processing for Alexa requests on Echo devices, mandating cloud transmission of voice recordings from March 28, has sparked privacy concerns despite enabling enhanced AI capabilities through cloud computing power.
A $50 AI wearable called Bee listens to conversations, summarizing key details and creating searchable transcripts without saving audio, though it struggles to reliably differentiate speakers and fact-check memories.
Sony is revolutionizing gaming experiences by introducing AI-powered versions of iconic PlayStation characters like Aloy, capable of holding lifelike conversations with synthesized voice and facial animations, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like OpenAI's Whisper, GPT-4, and Sony's own Emotional Voice Synthesis.
Amazon unveils Alexa+, a smarter, more conversational AI assistant powered by generative AI that can take action across services and devices, remembering user preferences and knowledge across platforms.