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Yelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providers | TechCrunch
Yelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providers
“As part of its Spring 2025 update, Yelp will test an AI-powered feature that lets restaurants and businesses handle customer calls using virtual agents. This will help businesses operate even when their support staff is busy or unavailable https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1917473898808967498
Early Preview of Yelp’s Upcoming AI-powered Call Answering Services – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OboONaC4WkA
This AI Model Can Scream Hysterically in Terror – Decrypt https://decrypt.co/316008/ai-model-scream-hysterically-terror
“We’re bringing 50+ languages to @NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews, including French, Hindi, Japanese + Portuguese, with more on the way. 🌍 Get podcast conversations based on the sources you give it, even if they are in different languages. Our Audio Overview hosts demonstrate: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1917264004025585933
“Google just announced the expansion of NotebookLM’s podcast-generating Audio Overviews feature It now supports over 50 languages, including Spanish and Hindi, for easy creation of multilingual content https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1917473876600095193
“Spotify just announced ViSMaP on Hugging Face Unsupervised Hour-long Video Summarisation by Meta-Prompting https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1915703054701044209
Australian radio station secretly used an AI host for six months | The Independent https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-radio-host-australia-cada-elevenlabs-b2740033.html
“Two undergrads. One still in the military. Zero funding. One ridiculous goal: build a TTS model that rivals NotebookLM Podcast, ElevenLabs Studio, and Sesame CSM. Somehow… we pulled it off. Here’s how 👇 https://x.com/_doyeob_/status/1914464970764628033
Google’s NotebookLM Audio Overviews adds more than 50 languages https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-audio-overviews-50-languages/
“NEW: You can now use Dia 1.6B SoTA Text-to-Speech model directly on Hugging Face via @FAL 🔥 You can get up-to 25 generations for less than a dollar 🤗 Run it 5 lines of code too: import requests API_URL = “https://router.huggingface. co/fal-ai/fal-ai/dia-tts” headers = { https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1915418386818834792
Duolingo Launches 148 New Language Courses – Duolingo, Inc. https://investors.duolingo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/duolingo-launches-148-new-language-courses
“Moonshot AI launched Kimi-Audio, a new open-source universal audio model —Supports speech recognition, audio-to-text, and speech-to-speech —Pre-trained on >13M hrs of audio data —Exels in 10+ audio benchmarks, including MMAU, VoiceBench, and LibriSpeech https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1916726681462583364
Kimi-Audio/assets/kimia_report.pdf at master · MoonshotAI/Kimi-Audio https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Audio/blob/master/assets/kimia_report.pdf
“v4.5 just dropped for Pro & Premier subscribers 🔥 A wider range of genres, richer vocals, & enhanced prompt understanding for songs that match your vision. What’s New: 🙌 Expanded genres & smarter mashups: More genre options — Blends like midwest emo + neosoul or EDM + folk https://x.com/SunoMusic/status/1917979468699931113
facebookresearch/MILS: Code release for “LLMs can see and hear without any training” https://github.com/facebookresearch/MILS
