Women’s voices and votes loom large as pope is to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future

VATICAN CITY — A few years ago, Pope Francis told the head of the main Vatican-backed Catholic women’s organization to be “brave” in pushing for change for women in the Catholic Church. Maria Lia Zervino took his advice and in 2021 wrote Francis a letter, then made it public, saying flat out that the Catholic … Read more

Spotify will use AI to replicate and translate podcasters’ voices

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek joins author and comedian Trevor Noah to discuss the future of storytelling at Spotify Beach in Cannes, France, on June 20, 2023. David M. Benett | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Spotify on Monday announced a new artificial intelligence-powered feature that can translate podcasts into different languages using the host’s … Read more

Colman Domingo Voices Batman for Spotify’s Riddler Podcast

Image: Raúl Romo/DC Comics DC Comics has been in the serialized podcast game for the last few years, and it started in earnest with Batman Unburied back in 2021. The Spotify series was notably headlined by Black Panther’s Winston Duke as the Dark Knight himself, and has featured other celebrities in key roles such as … Read more

Youngster victims are the forgotten voices of Chile throughout the Pinochet dictatorship from 1973 to 1990

SANTIAGO, Chile — Yelena Monroy was 3 years outdated when she was imprisoned for greater than a 12 months alongside together with her youthful sister and her mom, a socialist activist focused by the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet after he got here to energy in Chile in a navy coup in September 1973. “We … Read more

Voicemod AI people let avid gamers modify their voices in actual time

Voicemod has created 20 “AI people,” digital personas that enable avid gamers to talk in voices apart from their very own. Voicemod A synthetic intelligence agency in Spain has unveiled numerous “AI people” that enable folks to change their voices in video video games — in actual time. Voicemod, which is predicated in Valencia, on … Read more

Meta unveils Voicebox AI to duplicate the voices of your mates and family members

SergeyBitos/Getty Photos As AI chatbots and artwork mills appear to realize extra recognition by the minute, a number of the most distinguished gamers within the enterprise are attempting to remain within the sport with their very own instruments. Meta simply offered Voicebox, a text-guided, artificially-intelligent speech generator so highly effective that the corporate claims to outperform … Read more