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AI-Powered Dubbing Tool, Aloud, Soon Available to YouTube Creators
PLUS: Finch3D: Generative Architecture Tool Made by Architects for Architects
Digby the Digger & Reiko Iesha
June 30, 2023
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📹YouTube Collaborates with Google to Provide AI-Powered Dubbing Tool for Creators🎤
🖥️Finch3D: Generative Architecture Tool Made by Architects for Architects🏢
AI-Powered Dubbing Tool, Aloud, Soon Available to YouTube Creators
Does your business demographic targeting include the international market? And in a world where many entrepreneurs and business owners are moving fast to market and expand their businesses, do you struggle with finding an edge?
According to Sprout Social, social media users are four times more likely to use YouTube when researching a brand, service, or product. Apart from that, 75% of users have reported that YouTube makes them more aware of new brands, pushing about 70% of them to purchase their products and hire their services.
It wouldn’t be a surprise if YouTube were to launch programs that could help grow business engagement, and it did. Just last Thursday, YouTube announced that it has teamed up with Google to integrate an AI-powered dubbing service, Aloud, allowing creators to dub their videos directly on YouTube, giving way for them to attract worldwide audiences.
AI Dubbing
Aloud was developed by Google’s in-house incubator program, Area 120, a division within Google that works on experimental apps and products. First introduced in 2022, Aloud transcribes and translates a video and lets creators review and edit the transcriptions when necessary. After finalization, Aloud then creates a dubbed version.
Aloud is not yet available for all creators at this time and can only be tested by a selected few, though YouTube has plans to open the tool to all creators. Soon, all YouTube creators can dub at no additional cost.
Photo Courtesy of Aloud
Languages and Features
YouTube’s VP of Creator Products, Amjad Hanif, has stated that Aloud is currently only available in three languages, including English, Spanish, and Portuguese. It has not been confirmed when more languages can be accessed by creators, but among the ones that will someday be available are Hindi and Bahasa Indonesia.
Photo Courtesy of Aloud
YouTube’s multi-language development can be beneficial, not just for content creators but also for business owners and entrepreneurs whose demographic targeting includes international consumers. The distribution of informative videos regarding your business, should you have some, can now expand and reach a broader audience, too.
YouTube is driven to incorporate and make use of AI as much as it can, with hopes that Aloud will one day launch features such as voice preservation, better emotion transfer, and lip reanimation. With the aforementioned features, translated audio tracks can be more expressive and bear similarities to the original creator’s voices.
Generative Architecture Tool Finch3D Automates Floor Plans For You
Imagine a world where designing the best, most majestic buildings, like the Empire State Building, can be done with a snap of a finger. Is that possible? Well, Finch3D might not be able to do that, but it can optimize your workflow and speed to the next level.
In 2019, Swedish architects Pamela Nunez Wallgren and Jesper Wallgren founded Finch3D, a startup of parametric design tools designed by architects to help architects create early-stage designs swiftly and thoroughly.
The idea for Finch3D was born from the founders’ need for better tools when operating in their own architectural practice. The pair then built Finch3D to act as a computational cloud platform for fast design iteration, and as time went by, the company expanded.
Finch3D’s Development
Finch3D started out with in-house digital architectural tools that operated as plug-ins for Rhinoceros 3D, an architectural and product design software, and went viral after being featured in the Financial Times, ArchDaily, and Dezeen.
The team quickly realized that these tools could prove useful not just for them but for many architects who need them. Not long after their exposure, plenty of industry professionals approached Finch3D, wanting to buy the tool themselves, and thousands of architects requested early access.
Still wanting to continuously improve and develop their tools, the founders partnered with software developer Martin Kretz. With the assistance of a profusion of other developers, the Finch3D platform was built.
Platform and Features
Finch3D stopped being a Rhino plug-in and became a standalone application with strong connections to design software products, integrated into Rhino, Grasshopper, and Revit. This allowed architects to work with Finch3D’s generative tools without having their existing workflow disrupted.
Finch3D offers tools and features that are said to be most applicable and convenient for early-stage designs, from the first sketch until schematic design. Finch3D supports massing, layouts, story design, and space planning, exploring volume, which then becomes populated with plans.
Photo Courtesy of Finch3D
By utilizing AI, graph technology, and advanced optimization algorithms, Finch3D can generate rapid iterations, provide instant feedback on performance and guide design decisions, and prevent errors outside the rules of users’ firms, customers, or municipalities. Everything is generated automatically, without any need for the users’ hands.
AI as Support, Not Replacement
Nunez Wallgren believes that architects have a substantial role to play now and in the future, and Finch3D was created not to replace architects but to simply provide tools that lighten workloads and can better support them.
Finch3D has been working with a few strategic customers, such as the Scandinavian architectural practice White Arkitekter and Swedish Herzog & de Meuron. At the moment, over 18 thousand potential customers are still on Finch3D’s waiting list.
You can request early access and join the waiting list here.
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