Mistral Large is on 🔥, Updates from Klarna, Meta, Microsoft, DeepDub, Qualcomm, Alorica and others 🔥

Mistral Large LLM outperforms every model apart from GPT-4.

Top Updates 💪

• Klarna AI assistant handles two-third of customer service chats in its first month.

  

• TTS Arena: Benchmarking Text-to-Speech models in the wild

• DeepDub launches AI dubbing with accents

• The CX Awards 2024: Revealing dazzling finalists!

• Alorica introduces real-time voice translation for 75 Languages

• TTS app Speechify launches Gmail integration and voice cloning

• Qualcomm launched over 75 local AI models to run on-device

• NLX raises $12 Million to grow conversational AI platform

• Meta presents MobileLLM: Optimized LLMs for on-device use cases

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Noteworthy 💪

• AI that speaks many tongues (Politico)

• How AI enhances audio quality for exceptional Customer Experience

• How to identify AI audio deepfakes, a major 2024 election threat

• The potential of AI in breaking down language barriers and improving CX

• AI transforms the telephone call (Microsoft)

• Effective communication with Teams Walkie Talkie: The key to business success

• Voice Recognition: Enhancing customer interaction for local businesses

• Watermarking AI content doesn’t go far enough, researchers warn

• Will AI translation make learning a new language pointless?

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Science and Demo Corner 😎

• How to turn audio to text using OpenAI Whisper

• GenTranslate, a speech and text translator built on Meta’s SeamlessM4T

• Fluently: Speaking copilot for non-native professionals

• Benztown’s AI Listener Voice Generator revolutionizes radio content creation

  

• Translate your audio using Rask AI

  

• Chatter: Master languages with AI on Telegram

• Speakz: Translate your media across languages, keeping voice and ambient sounds

• Text-generation pipeline on Intel® Gaudi® 2 AI Accelerator

• Leveraging modality-specific representations for audio-visual ASR