The advantages of holistic facilities management

Beyond the traditional challenges of today’s markets, many organizations must also address the challenges of real estate and facilities management. These issues include managing rising real estate costs, increasing lease rates, new sustainability goals and under-utilized hybrid work environments.   Successfully managing your facilities can directly impact employee productivity and customer satisfaction. Facilities management plays …

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Host the Whisper Model on Amazon SageMaker: exploring inference options

OpenAI Whisper is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with an MIT license. ASR technology finds utility in transcription services, voice assistants, and enhancing accessibility for individuals with hearing impairments. This state-of-the-art model is trained on a vast and diverse dataset of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. Its high accuracy …

Māori Speech AI Model Helps Preserve and Promote New Zealand Indigenous Language

Indigenous languages are under threat. Some 3,000 — three-quarters of the total — could disappear before the end of the century, or one every two weeks, according to UNESCO. As part of a movement to protect such languages, New Zealand’s Te Hiku Media, a broadcaster focused on the Maori people’s indigenous language known as te …