VibeVoice is crazy good (first try, no cherry-picking)

Installed VibeVoice using the wrapper this dude created. https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1n20407/wip2_comfyui_wrapper_for_microsofts_new_vibevoice/ Workflow is the multi-voice example one can find in the module’s folder. Asked GPT for a harmless talk among those 3 people, used 3 1-minute audio samples, mono, 44KHz .wav Picked the 7B model. My 3060 almost died, took 54 minutes, but she didn’t croak an …

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Meet Boti: The AI assistant transforming how the citizens of Buenos Aires access government information with Amazon Bedrock

This post is co-written with Julieta Rappan, Macarena Blasi, and María Candela Blanco from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. The Government of the City of Buenos Aires continuously works to improve citizen services. In February 2019, it introduced an AI assistant named Boti available through WhatsApp, the most widely used messaging service …

Caltech breakthrough makes quantum memory last 30 times longer

While superconducting qubits are great at fast calculations, they struggle to store information for long periods. A team at Caltech has now developed a clever solution: converting quantum information into sound waves. By using a tiny device that acts like a miniature tuning fork, the researchers were able to extend quantum memory lifetimes up to …