Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 32, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy weekend, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about AI search engines and the future of Disney Plus, reading about [...]read moreCleft Notes is an AI voice notes app that really works
OpenAI is offering limited access to a text-to-voice generation platform it developed called Voice Engine, which can create a synthetic voice based on a 15-second clip of someone’s voice. The AI-generated voice can read out text prompts on command in the same language as the speaker or in a number of other languages. “These small [...]read moreOpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work
As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it’s doing so responsibly. Today marks the preview debut of OpenAI’s Voice Engine, an expansion of the company’s existing text-to-speech API. Under development for about two years, Voice Engine allows users to upload any 15-second voice sample to [...]read moreOpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can’t use it… yet
Hardware maker Rabbit has tapped a partnership with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its devices. Rabbit is set to ship the first set of r1 devices next month after getting a ton of attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the start of the year. The Rabbit r1 will ship with ElevenLabs’ tech, [...]read moreRabbit partners with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its device
The Battle Rounds have come to an end on season 25 of The Voice — and Team Chance saved the best for last! For his team’s final Battle, Chance the Rapper teamed up RLETTO and Val T. Webb, giving them the daunting task of covering Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love for You.” A 43-year-old [...]read more‘The Voice’: Val T. Webb and RLETTO’s Whitney Houston Duet Inspires the Final Battle Steal
Monday’s episode of The Voice featured a franchise first! Dan + Shay teamed up Kyle Schuesler and Madison Curbelo for their latest Battle Round performance and gave them something of a tall task — especially for Kyle. The coaches selected Jason Mraz’s “Lucky” but chose the bilingual version that the singer released with Ximena Sariñana, titled [...]read more‘The Voice’: Kyle Schuesler Wows the Coaches by Singing in Spanish for the First Time Ever
Reba McEntire had an emotional moment during an unexpected song during Monday’s Battle Rounds on The Voice. The country legend teamed up two of her team’s “good ol’ boys,” Josh Sanders and Donny Van Slee, for a performance of Luke Combs’ “When It Rains, It Pours.” While the song is mostly an upbeat, fun country vibe, [...]read more‘The Voice’: Reba McEntire Chokes Up Over Josh Sanders’ Emotional Connection to Battle Song
The first team-up on Tuesday’s Battle Rounds on season 25 of The Voice featured an impressive teen trio! Dan + Shay might be first-time coaches this season, but they knew what they were doing in teaming up 19-year-old Frank Garcia with 17-year-old twins Justin and Jeremy Garcia. The threesome performed stunning harmonies on their rendition of [...]read more‘The Voice’: The Epic Battle Between Frank Garcia and Justin & Jeremy Garcia Makes Reba McEntire Use Her Steal
A Battle Round on season 25 of The Voice is so good, it has coaches borrowing each other’s slang — and nearly throwing hands! During Tuesday’s Battles, Team Chance‘s Maddie Jane and Nadège took the stage with a soulful duet of Lauryn Hill’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” which had the other season 25 coaches — Reba [...]read more‘The Voice’: A Last Minute Playoff Pass Has John Legend Ready to Fight Chance the Rapper!
The screenwriter of the 1989 action film Road House is suing MGM Studios and its owner Amazon Studios, accusing them of copyright infringement over the upcoming Road House remake, report the Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in the U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles, also alleges that [...]read moreAmazon’s Road House reboot is accused of copyright infringement — and AI voice cloning