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Africam allows viewing African wildlife live through its webcams
Career Dreamer, Google's new AI tool to explore career possibilities | ElevenLabs launches tool to transcribe audio in 99 languages
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Africam allows viewing African wildlife live through Its webcams
Career Dreamer, Google's new AI tool to explore career possibilities
ElevenLabs launches tool to transcribe audio in 99 languages
Africam allows viewing African wildlife live through Its webcams
Africam is a website that offers live streaming, 24 hours a day, of African wildlife from multiple locations across the continent.
This service began in 1998 with a simple camera in Sabi Sands (South Africa) that updated images every 30 seconds. It was created with the goal of bringing African wildlife closer to a global audience through live cameras and with a clear mission: to raise awareness about the need to protect African ecosystems and wildlife.
Always Live. Always Wild. Africam's journey began in 1998 with a visionary idea to bring Africa's wildlife to a global audience through live cameras. The goal was simple yet ambitious: to provide real-time access to wildlife through the web. The initial live webcam was installed in the Sabi Sands, South Africa, capturing a 30-second refresh image.
Today, Africam offers dozens of live cameras thanks to collaborations with renowned safari brands. "We collaborate with renowned safari brands to strategically place cameras at waterholes, rivers, and wildlife hotspots to observe animals in their natural habitats."
"We partner with like-minded NGOs and conservation bodies with the objective of protecting Africa's wildlife and ecosystems."
These are the camera locations.
This video presents the project:
And this one offers a compilation of images captured by the different cameras:
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Career Dreamer, Google's new AI tool to explore career possibilities
Google has just launched a new artificial intelligence-based tool called "Career Dreamer" which aims to help anyone explore new career possibilities.
"Career Dreamer" analyzes a person's background, skills, and interests to identify and suggest possible new career paths.
This AI tool also helps users find training resources such as Google Career Certificates that align with their potential new career.
Additionally, in collaboration with Gemini, Google's AI assistant, users can prepare cover letters or improve their CVs, among other options.
This video presents the project:
The tool can already be tried here: Career Dreamer
If you're ready for a career change, or just wondering what's out there, try Career Dreamer and let us know what you think. You can learn more or get started at grow.google/careerdreamer.
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ElevenLabs launches tool to transcribe audio in 99 languages
The artificial intelligence company specializing in audio, ElevenLabs, has just launched its first audio-to-text model, called Scribe, a tool with which any user can convert audio files to text in 99 languages with a very high degree of accuracy. And, for now, for free.
In addition to English or Spanish, ElevenLabs' Speech to Text tool also works with files in underserved languages such as Serbian, Cantonese, and Malayalam, where competing models often exceed 40% word error rates.
ElevenLabs assures that the level of accuracy of the text transcriptions of their tool is superior to those offered by other competing tools.
The tool can be used directly on the web without the need to identify yourself, by uploading the audio file you want to transcribe, although it is more advisable to do so as a registered user through the ElevenLabs control panel.
The transcriptions include timestamps and can distinguish voices if there is more than one person speaking.
Links:
Meet Scribe – ElevenLabs’ Blog
Speech to Text Tool - ElevenLabs
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