Tag: Australia

Thinkerbell and Our Watch Encourage Australians to Do Something When They Witness Sexist Behaviour

Stuart Mitchell

Sexist jokes, objectifying women, off-colour comments; most people hate these all too common signs of disrespect towards women, but often they just go along with it, or don’t feel comfortable voicing their disapproval. Australia’s national body for the prevention of violence against women, Our Watch, has today launched an interactive campaign to help Australians do something when they witness disrespect towards women.   The campaign, Doing nothing does harm, was developed in conjunction with Thinkerbell in response to new research that revealed four in five Australians (79 per cent) want guidance on how to take positive…

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Some more on Project Revoice, and Patrick Quinn

Stuart Mitchell

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’

Stuart Mitchell

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’

Stuart Mitchell

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

Stuart Mitchell

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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