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• This startup gives your speech a new ‘human-realistic’ AI voice — for free

  21-06-2023 15:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  From virtual assistants to voiceovers for audiobooks, AI voice generation has emerged as a rapidly growing field — and it’s no wonder that companies are rushing to tap into the technology’s potential. Among them is Valencia-based Voicemod. The startup has developed an AI voice changer and soundboard software that enables instant speech-to-speech conversion. Unlike most of its competitors, the company claims that it transforms voices in real time and with low latency, enabling
  
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• Future-Proof Your Writing With Bear Blog

  21-06-2023 14:30 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  There’s no escaping it: the biggest obstacle writers face is that blank page. Sometimes that white rectangle seems like such a lonely place that we’d do almost anything to avoid it. When you’re a blogger, the number one form of procrastination is “working” on your site.
  
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• A new metaverse network plots an escape from Meta’s ‘walled gardens’

  21-06-2023 13:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Two years after Mark Zuckerberg launched it into orbit, the metaverse is crashing back to Earth. As the hype sparked by Facebook’s rebrand fades amid jaw-dropping losses, risible selfies, and the generative AI boom, reality is setting in — which is when things start getting interesting. Metaverse stalwarts are now fighting for competing visions. On one side are the centralised platforms owned by the likes of Meta and Roblox. Under the control of all-powerful tech giants, t
  
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• New pay transparency regulations could help women negotiate better salaries

  21-06-2023 09:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  The EU’s new pay transparency directive won’t close the gender pay gap by itself. But it will help. After all, if you want to close the gender wage gap you first have to have data. Under the new directive, EU companies will be required to share information about how much they pay men and women for work of equal value and will have to take action if their gender pay gap exceeds 5%. The new directive includes provisions on compensation for victims of pay discrimination and penalties,
  
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