Cohere's Transcribe model is designed for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis, supporting 14 languages and optimized for consumer-grade GPUs, making it accessible for self-hosting.
YouTube Premium subscribers who were promised an ad-free experience for $13.99 a month were met with jarring mid-playlist advertisements this week, in what appears to be an apparent Google snafu. The glitch was first flagged by premium users who were listening to YouTube Music on their Google Home and Nest devices, Android Authority reported. On the Google Home subreddit on Feb. 20, users reported ads appearing consistently even after resetting their devices, suggesting the issue was at the account level.
Apple announced Monday that it's rolling out a major overhaul to Apple Podcasts this spring, introducing native video support that lets listeners seamlessly switch between audio and video without juggling separate show feeds. Until now, if a podcaster wanted to offer both audio and video versions of their show on Apple Podcasts, they needed two separate listings, one for audio, one for video. The new system ditches that approach entirely. Using Apple's own HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology, creators can now offer a single show feed that includes both formats.
As explained by Meta: AI-powered translations for Reels are starting to roll out in more languages, including Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and Kannada, on Instagram. These new additions build on our existing language support for English, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. The addition of more of the languages spoken in India is significant, because India is now the biggest single market for both Facebook and Instagram usage, beating out the U.S. by a significant margin.
We've been waiting to get a show of our own for such a long time, says Heroda Berhane, one half of the deaf identical twin presenting duo, Hermon and Heroda. People have never seen our culture, our identity, the way we discuss the things. So it's a dating show, yes, but it's not just about dating; it's also revealing our identity and our culture, and that has never been seen before.