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This Voice Does Not Exist
This Voice Does Not Exist
Hello, friend. This website presents computer-generated voices, none of which are real. They are created by an artificial intelligence. We invite you to take a listen. This website presents a variety of aspects regarding audio synthesis, deepfakes, and deepfake detection. Maybe most importantly, we show results of current state-of-the-art audio synthesis algorithms: We create a set of sentences which are spoken by an artificial intelligence (AI). However, the AI does not simply reproduce audio recordings based on the training data; it creates entirely new speakers. Thus, for every sentence you hear, the corresponding speaker (along with its vocal tonality) does not exist!
#ai#cooltech
·this-voice-does-not-exist.com·
This Voice Does Not Exist
Riffusion
Riffusion
You've heard of Stable Diffusion, the open-source AI model that generates images from text? Well, we fine-tuned the model to generate images of spectrograms. The magic is that this spectrogram can then be converted to an audio clip. It can generate infinite variations of a prompt by varying the seed. All the same web UIs and techniques like img2img, inpainting, negative prompts, and interpolation work out of the box. More https://www.riffusion.com/about h/t to the always cool to music apps Grant Potter
#ai#music#cooltech
·riffusion.com·
Riffusion
Idyll
Idyll
Idyll can be used to create explorable explanations, write data-driven stories, and add interactivity to blog engines and content management systems. The tool can generate standalone webpages or be embedded in existing pages. Choose from built-in themes or provide custom CSS. Idyll starts with the same principles as markdown, and uses a lot of the same syntax. If you want text to appear in your output, just start writing. The real power of Idyll comes when you want to use JavaScript to enrich your writing. Special syntax allows you to embed JavaScript inline with your text. Idyll comes with a variety of components that can be used out-of-the-box to create rich documents.
#markdown#webdesign#cooltech
·idyll-lang.org·
Idyll
OpenShot Video Editor
OpenShot Video Editor
OpenShot is incrediblyamazinglywonderfullyfantasticallyincredibly simple and powerful! We designed OpenShot Video Editor to be an easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful video editor. OpenShot is a cross-platform video editor, with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
#opensource#software#video#cooltech
·openshot.org·
OpenShot Video Editor
3D Bike Configurator
3D Bike Configurator
Configure a Bike design-- Adjust colors and materials, and review each part in detail in 3D. Works on,Desktop, Mobile, VR, AR, all right in your browser. This page was authored in Unity and exported to three.js using tools and technologies by needle. There are a lot of open technologies involved: 3D models are in glTF format, the render engine is three.js, VR and AR are using WebXR. The networking server runs on Glitch, and audio is sent over WebRTC using PeerJS.
#3d#opensource#bicycle#cooltech
·engine.needle.tools·
3D Bike Configurator
Mellotron | Sodaphonic
Mellotron | Sodaphonic
he Mellotron acted as a primative sample playback device as it used recordings of actual strings, choirs, and flutes. When a key was pressed, a piece of magnetic tape was pulled over a playhead to hear the recorded sound. Here, the Mellotron has been recreated in the browser, obviously not using tape but the latest technology available - the Web Audio API and Dolby Digital Plus. Each sample has been recorded directly from an original Mellotron, coverted to 5.1 surround sound, and presented here in the Dolby Digital Plus format. Enjoy!
#music#cooltech
·sodaphonic.com·
Mellotron | Sodaphonic
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
The NUKEMAP is aimed at helping people visualize nuclear weapons on terms they can make sense of — helping them to get a sense of the scale of the bombs. By allowing people to use arbitrarily picked geographical locations, I hope that people will come to understand what a nuclear weapon would do to places they are familiar with, and how the different sizes of nuclear weapons change the results. There are many different political interpretations one can legitimately take away from such results. There is not intended to be a simple political "message" of the NUKEMAP. (h/t to Steve Foerster)
#map#maps#cooltech
·nuclearsecrecy.com·
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
Map of Stories
Map of Stories
Oral storytelling is one of Scotland’s most deeply-rooted, and yet underappreciated art forms. Map of Stories is a collection of 77 stories to explore, celebrate and promote oral storytelling traditions in Scotland, and the rooted sense of place from which they emerge.
#Storytelling#cooltech
·mapofstories.scot·
Map of Stories
Mapstodon
Mapstodon
A quick and dirty graph-viz of around 4500 instances of the fediverse as of 18/11/2022. Graph derived from 500 status of each instances public timeline (more infos). Zoom, click, search to explore these timelines and perhaps find a lovely place to stay.
#mastodon#map#cooltech
·comeetie.fr·
Mapstodon
Victorian-Era People Who Never Existed: These Portraits Were AI-Generated | PetaPixel
Victorian-Era People Who Never Existed: These Portraits Were AI-Generated | PetaPixel
An artist used the latest version of AI image generator Midjourney to create these ultra photorealistic images of people in the 19th century. Mario Cavalli shared the remarkable images he created with the machine learning artificial intelligence tool and tells PetaPixel that they are straight from Midjourney with no Photoshop work. “Midjourney v4 came out recently, I think it is currently the best [image generator] around,” says Cavalli. “The faux Victorian images are purely text prompt driven. I built on and adapted prompts developed by Everton Lisboa and Ben Roffelson.”
#photography#ai#cooltech
·petapixel.com·
Victorian-Era People Who Never Existed: These Portraits Were AI-Generated | PetaPixel
Exceptions for Instructors in U.S. Copyright Law
Exceptions for Instructors in U.S. Copyright Law
The U.S. Copyright Code provides for the educational use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder under certain conditions. To find out if your intended use meets the requirements set out in the law, use this free, online tool. This tool can also help you collect information detailing your educational use and provide you with a summary in PDF format.
#fairuse#copyright#education#cooltech
·librarycopyright.net·
Exceptions for Instructors in U.S. Copyright Law
Press This – WordPress plugin
Press This – WordPress plugin
Press This is a little tool that lets you grab bits of the web and create new posts with ease. It will even allow you to choose from images or videos included on the page and use them in your post. Use Press This as a quick and lightweight way to highlight another page on the web.
#wordpress#cooltech#blogging
·wordpress.org·
Press This – WordPress plugin
ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos - Decades of Internet search experience, JavaScript, and obsession.
ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos - Decades of Internet search experience, JavaScript, and obsession.
ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos is an extension of ResearchBuzz (established 1998) and the ResearchBuzz Firehose (established 2015). It's where I take my love of search engines and online information collections and mix it with JavaScript. Feel free to explore.
#search#tools#javascript#cooltech
·searchgizmos.com·
ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos - Decades of Internet search experience, JavaScript, and obsession.
Book Dash | New, African storybooks by volunteer creatives
Book Dash | New, African storybooks by volunteer creatives
Book Dash is a South African social impact publisher of free books for very young children. Our vision is that “Every child should own a hundred books by the age of five”, before they enter school! To that end, Book Dash gathers creative professionals who volunteer to create new, African storybooks that anyone can freely translate and distribute. We employ our unique, 12-hour book-making methodology to create beautiful new books in just one day! Then, we share with the world, here on our website and in physical format for children to own.
#opencontent#reading#books#cooltech
·bookdash.org·
Book Dash | New, African storybooks by volunteer creatives
ooh.directory
ooh.directory
a place to find good blogs that interest you. ooh.directory is a place to find good blogs that interest you. Explore the categories, search blog details, flip through random blogs, or keep visiting the most recently-updated blogs to see who’s talking about what right now.
#blog#blogs#cooltech#smallweb
·ooh.directory·
ooh.directory
How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
I finally managed to hook up IFTTT to Mastodon to auto-post from another site! I use IFTTT as glue for linking several services together including sharing interesting links from Pocket when I’m offline: I can add a tag in the app on my tablet, and then when it syncs that tag up to the cloud, IFTTT will pick it up and create the share post on whichever service I’ve tagged it for.* I also use it to post from RSS and WordPress to publish new blog posts to services that aren’t available in Jetpack. (note if this sends to both twitter and mastodon, I am cooking with my IFTTT!)
#mastodon#cooltech
·hyperborea.org·
How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT
Inclusive Publishing
Inclusive Publishing
Inclusive Publishing – sharing knowledge to make mainstream publications accessible to all, including people with print disabilities. Find the latest definitive articles and links for the best approaches to producing, delivering and reading accessible content that can be available to everyone in the same format, at the same time and at the same price. Inclusive Publishing is co-ordinated and managed by The DAISY Consortium a not-for-profit global collective of organizations committed to delivering worldwide change to achieve the common vision that “People have equal access to information and knowledge regardless of disability; a right confirmed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.” The Consortium contributes to mainstream standards, develops guidelines to promote best practices, raises awareness of accessible reading systems and supports open standards for inclusive publishing.
#accessibility#publishing#cooltech
·inclusivepublishing.org·
Inclusive Publishing
App creates time-lapse videos with a smartphone | Cornell Chronicle
App creates time-lapse videos with a smartphone | Cornell Chronicle
An app developed by Cornell researchers uses augmented reality to help users repeatedly capture images from the same location with a phone or tablet to make time-lapse videos – without leaving a camera on site. Time-lapse photography, which involves combining photos taken over long periods of time, provides a powerful way to visualize phenomena such as changing seasons or the movement of the sun. Traditionally, photographers would leave a camera on a tripod for the duration of the event, but researchers working with Abe Davis, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, have developed a more convenient method. Their iOS app, ReCapture, is now freely available in the Apple app store.
#photography#video#3d#cooltech
·news.cornell.edu·
App creates time-lapse videos with a smartphone | Cornell Chronicle