Audible recruits voice actors to train audiobook-generating AI
Audible, Amazon’s audiobook business, on Monday announced that it’ll use AI trained on professional narrators’ voices to generate new audiobook recordings. A select, U.S.-based cohort of audiobook narrators will be invited to train AI on their voices starting this week, Audible said. The trained AI will be used to make
Read moreClimate change was a lot less prominent in this year’s iPhone event
The lack of climate announcement's at Apple's annual event shows just how hard meaningful progress on carbon emissions can be, even for one of the world’s most valuable companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHere’s the full list of 35 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024
In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreiPhone 16, Apple Intelligence and more: Everything revealed at Apple Event 2024
Apple’s biggest event of the year has arrived, and with it, the iPhone 16 lineup and a slew of AI-related updates for iOS 18. Apple Intelligence was the star of the Apple event this year, like it was at WWDC in June, and Apple’s lineup of announcements echoed many of
Read moreApple will make iOS 18 available to all users on September 16
You will get the iOS 18 update if you have an iPhone XR or later, or iPhone SE (second gen) or later. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreApple to release AI-focused macOS Sequoia September 16 in record time
The swift macOS Sequoia release deviates from Apple's usual late September or October timeline for desktop OS updates. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreApple’s Voice Memos app will soon let you layer vocals on top of music
When the upgraded Voice Memos app rolls out, you'll be able to sing over a track you recorded earlier — a guitar track, say — by tapping on a new "layer" button before you hit record. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreChris’ Corner: Open Sniped
Recently Heikki Lotvonen cooked up a very cool idea: what if the colorization of code output on the web could be handled by the font itself. Syntax highlighting, as it were. So rather than accomplish this with a heaping pile of <span>s with classes to colorize the text, the font
Read moreAlpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments
Steve Brotman started Alpha Partners in 2014 with a novel idea at the time: investing alongside early-stage VCs to help preserve their ownership in promising companies as they transition to later funding rounds. Alpha’s first fund was a mere $10 million. But as startups started staying private for longer, the
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Another blow to the Internet Archive’s lending library
The Internet Archive’s online lending library recently suffered a big defeat in court. The organization is best known for operating the Wayback Machine, which stores old versions of web pages, a task that’s felt increasingly important as more of the web disappears. But the Archive also operated a digital lending
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