Starting in iOS 17, Apple allows users to create a Personal Voice that when used in conjunction with Live Speech can help users communicate with others by reading text and phrases. Here's how to set it up and how it worked for us.Setup and use Personal Voice with iOS 17Personal Voice is nothing short of amazing. After only 15 minutes of dictation, your iPhone can create a digital version of your voice, processed locally and encrypted. Read more...

AI is taking the world by storm, and while you could use Google Bard or ChatGPT, you can also use a locally-hosted one on your Mac. Here's how to use the new MLC LLM chat app.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new cutting-edge frontier of computer science and is generating quite a bit of hype in the computing world.Chatbots - AI-based apps which users can converse with as domain experts - are growing in popularity to say the least. Read more...

AI is taking the world by storm, and while you could use Google Bard or ChatGPT, you can also use a locally-hosted one on your Mac. Here's how to use the new MLC LLM chat app.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new cutting-edge frontier of computer science and is generating quite a bit of hype in the computing world.Chatbots - AI-based apps which users can converse with as domain experts - are growing in popularity to say the least. Read more...

AI is taking the world by storm, and while you could use Google Bard or ChatGPT, you can also use a locally-hosted one on your Mac. Here's how to use the new MLC LLM chat app.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new cutting-edge frontier of computer science and is generating quite a bit of hype in the computing world.Chatbots - AI-based apps which users can converse with as domain experts - are growing in popularity to say the least. Read more...

MacWhisper is a macOS app that uses OpenAI technology to locally transcribe audio and even video files into text. Developer Jordi Bruin is now rolling out version 3.0 of the app, which comes with numerous improvements – including a new Display Mode. Read on as we detail what changes with the update. more… The post MacWhisper transcription app gets major update with new Display Mode appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Image: Epic Games Today, Epic is releasing a new tool designed to capture an actor’s facial performance using a device as simple as an iPhone and apply it to a hyperrealistic “MetaHuman” in the Unreal Engine in “minutes.” The feature, dubbed MetaHuman Animator, was detailed at the Game Developers Conference in March but is now available for developers to try out for themselves. Epic has also released a new video today produced by one of its internal teams to show what the tool is capable of. While Epic’s short film shows off some impressively subtle facial animation, the big benefit the company is emphasizing is the speed with which MetaHuman Animator produces results. “The animation is produced locally using GPU…