"Coqui, a conversational AI startup, on Wednesday (January 3, 2023), announced that it is shutting down its operation ...

[It] specialises in building open source models and applications in the area of quick voice cloning, text-to-voice, etc. The former employees of Mozilla, left the company after it stopped developing their own Speech-to-text engine, DeepSpeech to begin Coqui.”

#KLKrithika, 2024

https://analyticsindiamag.com/industry-insights/ai-startups/conversational-ai-startup-coqui-shuts-down

#translation #MachineTranslation #ASR #TTS #Coqui #Mozilla #DeepSpeech

Conversational AI Startup Coqui Shuts Down

“I can confidently say that we pushed the state-of-the-art for generative speech technology... before it was called "generative" 🙂” writes Josh Meyer. 

^{K L Krithika (Analytics India Magazine)}

Violet's on holiday with a group from school in Titanic by Hannah Webb. But will she sink or swim?

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/titanic-hannah-webb/

And on the @fictionable #podcast Webb explains how the unreality of the #internet doesn't make the experiences it brings any less important:

Image: Patrick Pahlke

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In Be Careful Who Your Friends Are, our scene is set at Lorenzo's, where Scott Jacobs invites us to an unsettling encounter.

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/stories/be-careful-who-your-friends-are-scott-jacobs/

While on the @fictionable #podcast Jacobs reveals that his intriguing short story was drawn from life.

Image: Smithsonian

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Maggie is looking for a partner in Esther Karin Mngodo's story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin. But will her love life ignite?

Swipe right at https://www.fictionable.world/stories/first-date-esther-karin-mngodo-translated-by-jay-boss-rubin

Image: Yaoqi

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Two boys, two bikes and a bag of peas. Judith Vanistendael sets off in advance of the German Blitzkreig in The Small Story.

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-small-story-judith-vanistendael

And on the @fictionable #podcast Vanistendael talks about how a relationship with a refugee has shaped her work.

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A fantastic opportunity. Room for growth. But there's something hovering just out of view in Conference by Daisy Johnson.

Catch it at https://fictionable.world/stories/conference-daisy-johnson

And hear Johnson talk about the fears and uncertainties lurking beneath the surface on the @fictionable #podcast

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The poet Lee Seong-bok explores the gap between words and meaning in this sequence of aphorisms, translated by Anton Hur:

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/lee-seong-bok-poetry-words-meaning-language

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Samantha Harvey's #BookerPrize is just the latest major award picked up by a @fictionable contributor.

Earlier this year, Jenny Erpenbeck took the #InternationalBooker We've published winners of the #PulitzerPrize the #NationalBookAward the #WomensPrize the #GoldsmithsPrize the #BBCNSSA the #DylanThomasPrize and more and more…

And we've published them alongside prizewinning #writers from all over the world and the most exciting new voices. New voices who are now going on to pick up #prizes

Subscribe for £20 and you'll get instant access to 50 of these exclusive #Shortstories and brand new stories for a whole year.

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"When it comes to solving climate change, every word counts. From the pitfalls of metaphors to the multiple meanings of the word "energy" – this is how translators at global climate negotiations navigate the language of global warming."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241108-the-people-cracking-the-worlds-toughest-climate-words

#PublicHealth #climate #environment #ClimateJustice #language #interpretation #translation

The people cracking the world's toughest climate words

The work of translators is often overlooked when world's leaders and negotiators meet to discuss climate action. Their sometimes gruelling work helps keep the talks flowing.

^{Francis Agustin (BBC)}