Australian Initiative Puts An End To ‘Machine Voices’

Australian initiative Project Revoice has announced a global breakthrough in speech technology, enabling those who lose the ability to talk to continue speaking in their own authentic and personal voices.  The new development will see an end to ‘Stephen Hawking-style’ machine voices, and enable all those with degenerative voice conditions to bank and use their natural voices, if they lose the ability to speak. In mid 2018 Project Revoice will be launching a facility for people to record their voices via the www.projectrevoice.org website, so they can be digitally recreated…

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Naked partners with Gidget Foundation Australia to launch ‘Start Talking’

Naked launches its ‘Start Talking’ campaign for Gidget Foundation Australia; a not-for-profit that provides support for families who are affected by perinatal depression and anxiety (PNDA). The centrepiece of the campaign is a powerful TVC that brings to life this common, but often hidden illness, and shows how Gidget Foundation’s ‘Start Talking’ telehealth program can help. The ‘Start Talking’ program, available via video call, substantially improves equity of access to perinatal health treatment services for people in regional, rural and remote locations across Australia. The TVC is the first piece…

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Saatchi & Saatchi announce they are taking the pledge, and joining Free the Bid

Saatchi & Saatchi have announced that they are taking the Free the Bid pledge, an iniative designed to give women directors a voice in advertising. In the  year and a half since its launch, Free the Bid has become a vital part of a growing international dialogue about inequality in the Marketing Industry. Many Global networks including AMV BDDO, FCB, M&C Saatchi and McCann, and brands including Airbnb, Coca-Cola, ebay and HP have taken the pledge. Free the bid has launched in Australia, Brazil, South Africa, UK and USA, with…

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FF Los Angeles introduces “Ocean Miner” Tara Foundation: a new system to generate Bitcoins and finance ocean research

FF Los Angeles unveiled the “Ocean Miner” project for the Tara Expéditions Foundation: an innovative system somewhere between blockchain and land art that gives the ocean the opportunity to produce Bitcoin to finance its own preservation. The Tara Expéditions Foundation travels the world’s seas with scientists on board its schooner, Tara. For 15 years, Tara has been proactively studying and understanding the ocean to better preserve it from climate change. Its mission is essential but is often confronted with the difficulty of engaging the general public, politicians or the investors…

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TBWA India Creates ‘Blink To Speak’ System for People Suffering from Paralysis

We take our ability to communicate for granted. But there are over 60 million people in the world suffer from spinal cord injuries and brain strokes. Conditions such as ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) and MNDs (Motor Neuron Diseases), render them partially or completely paralysed. They survive for years, bound to their beds or wheelchairs with no power to express even the smallest need or desire. Medical advances have been able to give them a longer life. But that life is stifled by silence. Even with an absolutely alert mind, they are…

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