Some more on Project Revoice, and Patrick Quinn

We have featured a news story on this but I felt it was worth doing a bit more on. Project Revoice is a global not-for-profit initiative developed by BWM Dentsu creative agency, based in Sydney, Australia. Driven by the agency’s commitment to finding new creative solutions through technology, the team were inspired by revolutionary advances in voice and speech technology. As part of the Project Revoice team at BWM Dentsu, Oskar Westerdal and René Schultzshare apassion for creative tech. New innovation in computational linguistics and machine learning,unearthed through their research,…

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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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The Modern Commonwealth film premieres at CGF General Assembly

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF)’s has launched a new film, The Modern Commonwealth, which premiered at the Federation’s 2018 General Assembly on the Gold Coast, Australia on the 30th March. More than 200 members from the Commonwealth Sports Movement enjoyed the launch of The Modern Commonwealth, just four days ahead of the eagerly anticipated XXI Commonwealth Games. The short film encapsulates the rich diversity of the Commonwealth, and its distinct identity in modern-day international sport as a dynamic movement driven by its values of Humanity, Equality and Destiny. With new members joining, next…

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This Girl Can hits Australia

This Girl Can has travelled more than 10,000 miles with an all-new version of the campaign in Victoria, Australia. VicHealth, a health promotion foundation, has released a powerful new video as part of their This Girl Can – Victoria campaign, a local version of Sport England’s groundbreaking This Girl Can UK. The ad features everyday Victorian women  overcoming their fears and ‘giving it a go, curves, jiggles, wrinkles and all’. The women, from all across the state, get their sweat on in a range of activities from boxing, cycling and roller-derby to netball and Aussie rules.…

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