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Astounding AI Guesses What You Look Like Based on Your Voice
Vox Humana A new artificial intelligence created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University pulls off a staggering feat: by analyzing only a short audio clip of a person’s voice, it reconstructs what they might look like in real life. The AI’s results aren’t perfect, but they’re pretty good — a remarkable and somewhat terrifying example of how a sophisticated AI can…
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Wireless LEDs Aren’t A First, But You Can Make Your Own
Wireless LEDs. That’s what [Scotty Allen] found in Japan, and if you find something you just have to replicate it. [Scotty] found these wireless LEDs in a display stand for model makers and gunpla. Because you don’t want to run wires, drill holes, and deal with fiber optics when illuminating plastic models, model companies have come up with wireless LEDs.…
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Hypervoix (2/2) : les enjeux de la voix au-delà de la voix
L’enjeu des assistants vocaux ne se limite pas à leur seule conception sonore et vocale, comme nous le rappelions dans la première partie de ce dossier. A l’occasion de la journée d’étude Hypervoix qui avait lieu le 15 avril à Paris, retour sur les autres enjeux de conception que posent les assistants vocaux en élargissant le champ des questions et…
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Little Lamp To Learn Longer Leaps
Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning where the machine is scored on their performance (“evaluation function”). Over the course of a training session, behavior that improved final score is positively reinforced gradually building towards an optimal solution. [Dheera Venkatraman] thought it would be fun to use reinforcement learning for making a little robot lamp move. But before that…
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Microsoft’s new language learning app uses your phone’s camera and computer vision to teach vocabulary
Eight Microsoft interns have developed a new language learning tool that uses the smartphone camera to help adults improve their English literacy by learning the words for the things around them. The app, Read My World, lets you take a picture with your phone to learn from a library of over 1,500 words. The photo can be of a real-world…
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Driverless Range Rovers Collaborate in Tiny Freeway Model
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have deployed a fleet of 1:24 scale autonomous Range Rovers to explore how cars can communicate and work together. Results are promising, with cooperative driving improving traffic flow by 35% in normal driving operation, and a staggering 45% when driving more aggressively. The experiment takes place on a two-lane simulated freeway marked out on…
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Google announces a new $999 Glass augmented reality headset
Google has announced a new version of its business-focused Glass augmented reality headset, which it’s now designating an official Google product instead of an experiment. The Glass Enterprise Edition 2 costs $999, although, like its predecessor, it’s not being sold directly to consumers. It’s got a new processor, an improved camera, a USB-C port for faster charging, and a variety…
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Google’s Translatotron converts one spoken language to another, no text involved
Every day we creep a little closer to Douglas Adams’ famous and prescient Babel fish. A new research project from Google takes spoken sentences in one language and outputs spoken words in another — but unlike most translation techniques, it uses no intermediate text, working solely with the audio. This makes it quick, but more importantly lets it more easily…
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LiDAR Combined with Voice Assistant for Novel Interface Device
Consider smart home assistants. While useful, their interface methods generally consist of responding to voice commands, and some implement a small touchscreen. Normally, there’s no awareness of the surrounding area to tell where, for instance, you’re standing, or if there is an object on the table next to it. SurfaceSight provides smart assistants with increased contextual awareness. (📷: Gierad Laput) SurfaceSight — a new…
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Louis Vuitton and Royole put two web browsers on a handbag
Of all the companies to embrace flexible displays in 2019, we didn’t think the fashion brand Louis Vuitton would be among them. Yet, that’s exactly what it’s done with its new lineup of handbags featuring 1920 x 1440 resolution flexible AMOLED displays from Royole. Engadget reports that LV plans to produce two variations of the so-called Canvas of the Future…
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