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Create Professional-Sounding Audio in a British Accent Using Text-to-Speech Technology

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Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has come a long way in recent years, and it can now be used to create professional-sounding audio with a British accent.

With text-to-speech technology, you can generate realistic-sounding voices perfect for podcasts, videos, radio broadcasts or any other type of audio production.

The best part is that the process is incredibly simple – all you have to do is enter your script into the software’s text box and select the desired British accent from the list of available options. [Read more…] about Create Professional-Sounding Audio in a British Accent Using Text-to-Speech Technology

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Pro Player Settings

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, or CS:GO, is a tactical first-person shooter video game that has become one of the most popular games in the eSports community in the United States and around the world.

Players use a variety of weapons, tactics, and strategies as they compete against each other in game modes such as deathmatch, destruction, and hostage rescue.

As with any game, the key to success lies in the player’s ability to customize game settings and optimize performance. This text will focus on the settings and configurations used by professional CS:GO players to gain an advantage over their opponents. [Read more…] about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Pro Player Settings

Your Car: Essential Tech Upgrades to Make Now

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Present-day vehicles are more than just a mode of transportation. They’re also your office, entertainment center, and mobile device charging station.

It’s essential to have all the necessary tech upgrades to stay connected with friends and family while on the road. These critical upgrades will help you do just that. [Read more…] about Your Car: Essential Tech Upgrades to Make Now

Deep learning networks prefer the human voice – just like we do

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Columbia engineers demonstrate that AI systems might reach higher performance if programmed with sound files of human language rather than with binary data labels. (See video below.)

The digital revolution is built on a foundation of invisible 1s and 0s called bits.

As decades pass, and more and more of the world’s information and knowledge morph into streams of 1s and 0s, the notion that computers prefer to “speak” in binary numbers is rarely questioned.

According to new research from Columbia Engineering, this could be about to change. [Read more…] about Deep learning networks prefer the human voice – just like we do

Math experts use drones to show it’s possible to ‘see’ perfectly using sound

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The discovery’s potential applications include self-driving cars, smartphones that can guide the visually impaired and drones that can help firefighters at night

As the industry for self-driving cars, robots and other unmanned vehicles quickly evolves – and engineers work to overcome the limitations of sensors that use visual, infrared or thermal information – math experts at Purdue University and the Technical University of Munich have proven there’s another, equally viable solution: using sound. 

Mireille “Mimi” Boutin, associate professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and Gregor Kemper, professor of algorithmic algebra at Technical University, found that a drone equipped with four microphones and a loudspeaker can precisely reconstruct the wall configuration of a room by listening to echoes, similar to how bats use echolocation to orient themselves.

Their work is significant because it demonstrates the feasibility of using sound for navigation in unmanned systems, leading to many potential applications such as cars, drones, underwater vehicles or even devices that people can carry, such as a smartphone.  [Read more…] about Math experts use drones to show it’s possible to ‘see’ perfectly using sound

Bosch Engineering opens vehicle acoustics test centre

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Vehicle acoustics are steadily gaining traction as a quality criterion in today’s cars.

When a vehicle is in motion, audible or perceptible vibrations emanating from individual components can cause annoying automotive noise conveyed by the vehicle’s structure and rendered as airborne sound.

Acoustics experts refer to this phenomenon as NVH, which is short for noise, vibration, harshness.

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