Hey Rob. I'm not on the tech team here at Gradium (I do GTM) but still curious where you found the glitch? Were you entering words into the STT in the bottom of the front page? Can you share an example so I can replicate? Many thanks!
I'm psyched to see so much interest in my post about Kyutai's latest model! I'm working on part of a related team in Paris that's building off Kutai's research to provide enterprise-grade voice solutions. If anyone building in this space I'd love to chat and share some our upcoming models and capabilities that I am told are SOTA. Please don't hesitate to ping me via the address in my profile.
Woah, I'm impressed! The voice cloning also worked much better than expected! Will there be separate models for other languages? I know the National Library in Norway has done a good job curating speech datasets with many different dialects [1][2].
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I don't think new theatre releases are generally getting leak in digital formats anymore until they hit streaming which can sometimes be as soon as weeks or couple months after original release. Obviously 'tele-syncs' (cameras capturing the film) still exist but that wasn't your question. The one exception to this can be oscar movie season when studios release films via a special Apple TV app and that be be slightly less secure (though still water-marked).
I would ask you to support your claim of 'high quality digital dumps' by citing one that has come out in the last couple years. See https://predb.net/
> A telesync (TS) is a bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater, often (although not always) filmed using a professional camera on a tripod in the projection booth. The audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to the sound source (often an FM microbroadcast provided for the hearing-impaired, or from a drive-in theater). If a direct connection from the sound source is not possible, sometimes the bootlegger will tape or conceal wireless microphones close to the speakers, as it is better than a mic on the camera. A TS can be considered a higher quality type of cam, that has the potential of better-quality audio and video.
This has an analog (so to speak) in the live music bootlegging subculture. If you can convince the roadie running the mixer or the sound board to plug in your shady recording device, then you can cut a bootleg record or tape which advertises that as a selling point.
Live audio bootlegs of concerts are typically plagued with the same sort of interference, such as crowd noise, shaky everything, cheap microphone designed for voices only, overwhelming decibel levels, etc. A "clean soundboard" recording can bypass all that and sound comparatively good, especially if the band is good at playing live.
There is a lot of great content here though I worry some of it is quickly becoming outdated. Every three months google has been updating their spam filters and making it harder and harder deliver sales emails at scale.
As evidence of this, look at Rift.com a YC/Sequoia-backed sales email tool that closely followed this same playbook but was forced to kill their service as Google made it increasingly difficult to deliver sales messages at scale.
Conversion rates use to be 1-10% from email to meeting booking. Now I believe most teams are seeing significantly below 1%.
Maybe partly because everyone wants to "meet" or "have a quick chat" now. Used to be novel if they just wanted to chat not straight sell. Now we've wised up
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