MobileNews

Speech Services by Google reaches 10 billion Play Store downloads

A core component within Android is now part of an exclusive club as Speech Service by Google has surpassed 10 billion downloads on the Play Store. While not an “app” in the traditional sense, Speech Services by Google was formerly known as “Google Text-to-speech” — which is basically what this newly renamed app offers. As part of your Android system and packaged with Google Mobile…
Read more
Cleantech & EV'sNews

French village increases mobility, cuts carbon with shared EV scheme

A village in southwest France had a problem: too few remaining local shops providing for the needs of its 130 aging and decreasingly mobile residents. To break the resulting isolation, the hamlet set itself up with a solar-recharging Renault Zoe EV that villagers take turns using to run errands in outlying towns, and voilà ­­– affordable, safe, and carbon-free transportation available to…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia launches Modulus, a framework for developing ‘physics-grounded’ AI models

Nvidia today launched Modulus, a framework for developing “physics-grounded” machine learning models in industries that require a high level of physical accuracy. Modulus trains AI systems to use the laws of physics to model the behavior of systems in a range of fields, according to Nvidia, including climate science and protein engineering. “Digital twin” approaches to simulation have…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia’s Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI

At its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia unveiled Riva Custom Voice, a new toolkit that the company claims can enable customers to create custom, “human-like” voices with only 30 minutes of speech recording data. According to Nvidia, businesses can use Riva Custom Voice to develop a virtual assistant with a unique voice, while call centers and developers can leverage it to…
Read more