Dear Amazon, if you're going to use AI enhanced synthetic speech for Audio Description on your Prime TV series, the least you can do is check it for pronunciation quality. The voice being realistic isn't enough.
In Talamasca: The Secret Order, AD mispronunciations include "Surré" instead of "Surrey", "alyus" instead of "alias", and "one hundreds" instead of "hundreds".
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Wednesday: In the on-going fight against #ad-blockers #YouTube is experimenting with new server-side ad injection so that Ads are directly added into videos.
👉 tuta.com/blog/youtube-adblock-…
In their on-going fight against ad blocking technologies, Google plans to begin merging ads into YouTube videos before they leave the server.Tutanota
When #greenwashing by #ad companies meets bad journalism.
Not at all what I expect from the #Guardian 😞
theguardian.com/environment/20…
The message here is "yes we can make tiny symbolic gestures to protect the environment, but only if it saves #advertising profits":
No ads, no bees. Would be a pity if we had to throw away the flowers!
It's beyond ridiculous! I'm going to unravel the deception in five toots:
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Bee bus stops first appeared in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Now the UK is planning for more than 1,000 and there is growing interest across Europe and in Canada and AustraliaPhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
