Truecaller partners with Microsoft to let its AI respond to calls in your own voice
AI has already started replacing voice agents’ jobs. Now, companies are exploring ways to replace the existing computer-generated voice models with synthetic versions of human voices. Truecaller, the widely known caller ID service, is the latest to take this approach with its announcement that it will now allow customers to
Read moreMeta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses now let you share images directly to your Instagram Story
Meta is updating its Ray-Ban smart glasses with new hands-free functionality, the company announced on Wednesday. Most notably, users can now share an image from their smart glasses directly to their Instagram Story without needing to take out their phone. After you take a photo with the smart glasses, you
Read moreWhy Spotify is launching its own font, Spotify Mix
Spotify launched its own font, the company announced on Wednesday. The music streaming service hopes that its new typeface, “Spotify Mix,” will help Spotify distinguish its own unique visual identity. Spotify Mix is a sans-serif typeface designed in partnership with Dinamo Typefaces, a Berlin-based type design studio that has worked
Read moreYoung Software Development Students Advice SA’s Youth
As South Africa grapples with reducing the unemployment rate, young people face a dual challenge: acquiring an employable skill and understanding where to secure sustainable employment. Given the rapid evolution of technology, it’s unsurprising that software development emerges as a career path expected to safeguard young people’s employability both now
Read moreKey Currency Exchange Risks to Consider Before the Elections
On May 29, South Africans will go to the polls in what are widely anticipated to be the country’s most important national and provincial elections since 1994. Failing infrastructure, persistent load shedding, low growth, and high unemployment mean that many are hungry for change, even if there’s significant contestation about
Read moreYou should keep a developer’s journal
A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked.
Read moreUnify helps developers find the best LLM for the job
When developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. There are other considerations such as cost, speed and accuracy and finding ways to balance all of those has been particularly challenging, especially with so many new
Read moreAerodome is sending drones to the scene of the crime
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Read moreGranola debuts an AI notepad for meetings
Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreDeepL, the AI language translation startup, nabs $300M on a $2B valuation to focus on B2B growth
Yet more major funding is being poured into a startup focused on AI. Today, DeepL – the company that builds automated text translation and writing tools that compete against the likes of Google Translate and Grammarly – announced that it’s raised an additional $300 million. It is now valued at
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