You can’t have an AI podcast and not interview someone using AI to make podcasts better.
That’s why we reached out to serial entrepreneur Andrew Mason to talk to him about what he’s doing now. His company, Descript Podcast Studio, uses AI, natural language processing and automatic speech synthesis to make podcast editing easier and more collaborative.
Mason, Descript’s CEO and perhaps best known as Groupon’s founder, spoke with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about his company and the newest beta service it offers, called Overdub.
“We’re trying to use AI to automate the technical heavy lifting components of learning to use editors — as opposed to automating the craft — and we leave space for the user to display and refine their craft” — Andrew Mason [07:10]
“What’s really unique to us is a kind of tonal or prosodic connecting of the dots, where we’ll analyze the audio before and after whatever you’re splicing in with Overdub, and make sure that it sounds continuous in a natural transition” — Andrew Mason [10:30]
Imagine Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as an algorithm or the next Hans Zimmer as a computer. Pierre Barreau and his startup, Aiva Technologies, are using deep learning to compose music. Their algorithm can create a theme in four minutes flat.
Rochester Institute of Technology computer engineering major Syed Ahmed, a research assistant at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, uses AI to translate between American sign language and English. Ahmed trained his algorithm on 1,700 sign language videos.
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