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Google’s Nest Audio may or may not have a home theater trick up its sleeves

The Verge

In our review of Google’s $99 Nest Audio speaker , we wrote that it’s “unfortunate that you can’t use two Nest Audio speakers paired with a Chromecast for home theater audio, like you can do with a couple of Amazon Echo speakers and a Fire TV.”. With Chromecast and Google TV, Nest Audio becomes your home cinema sound system.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Freelancing is a good alternative,” Allison advised. Examine the audio and digital imagery that you’re presenting to ensure that it is up-to-date. Zonta has a standards guide that includes instructions related to style and formatting. During the pandemic, I talked with many women who opted out of traditional employment.

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AVFormer: Injecting vision into frozen speech models for zero-shot AV-ASR

Google Research AI blog

While the challenges for this technology are centered around noisy audio inputs, the visual stream in multimodal videos (e.g., Datasets such as How2 and VisSpeech have been created from instructional videos online, but they are small in size. LibriSpeech ).

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How to use your Nvidia graphics card to improve the quality of your calls

The Verge

Released in April 2020, RTX Voice uses the hardware found in Nvidia’s RTX ( and more recently, GTX ) GPUs to process your incoming and outgoing audio and eliminate almost all background noise. In order to run it, you’ll need an Nvidia GeForce or Quadro RTX or GTX graphics card since the software uses this hardware to process your audio.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

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Include text alternatives for all non-text elements. A screen reader or other assistive device won’t be able to interpret what an image is depicting unless you include text alternatives for the device to interpret. All images that provide meaningful information to users should include either descriptive alternative text or a caption.

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A new asynchronous video startup, Weet, helps employees communicate on their own schedule

TechCrunch

What that six-year-old outfit, Speach , sells is essentially knowledge-sharing between colleagues via videos produced by the employees themselves, often to augment written instructions. The idea is to maximize learning, fast, and investors liked it enough to provide Speach with $14 million in funding. The Slack origin story.