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MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI
One of the birthplaces of artificial intelligence, MIT, has announced a bold plan to reshape its academic program around the technology. With $1 billion in funding, MIT will create a new college that combines AI, machine learning, and data science...
AI-POWERED TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES SHOWDOWN: AWS VS. GOOGLE VS. IBM WATSON VS. NUANCE
In one of my previous blog posts, I touched on the topic of AI-powered transcription services on the market. There, I introduced the idea that, with this pace of multimedia production, traditional, human-powered transcription services is not the solution. In the...
How Audioburst is using AI to index audio broadcasts and make them easy to find
While Google indexes web pages to make it easier for people to find content from across the more than one billion websites that exist online, a fledgling startup is making moves to do something similar in the audio realm. Founded in 2015, Audioburst touts...
Massachusetts General Hospital piloting blockchain projects with Korean startup
In working with MediBloc, MGH is said to be interested in the ledger technology's suitability for storage and exchange of patient data, supplementing its EHR. Harvard Medical School's Lab of Medical Imaging and Computation, part of Massachusetts General Hospital, has...
Two college students started a transcription service. After journalists heard about it, it crashed
Two college students were sitting on the couch in the living room of their shared Dublin apartment in May when their servers crashed. About a week earlier, the duo had launched a free tool that automatically transcribes audio files. Though local...
3 Reasons Why You Need To Transcribe Your Podcasts
As a podcaster, you don’t only want to reach more and more people, you want to build an audience that will truly engage with your content. Search Engine Optimization is key to attract more traffic, nonetheless audio and video files are not retrievable by...