Re: Voice Ai App
Anastacia Iacono
Voice uses Google AI to help save you time by blocking spam calls and transcribing voicemails to text automatically. Integrations with Google Meet and Calendar help keep the focus on what's important.
Our sales team now uses Google Voice to call and text customers from their smartphones, tablets, and the web. And because it is considerably more affordable to operate than our legacy VoIP systems, we continue to steadily expand our usage of Google Voice.
Google Voice gives you a phone number for calls, texts, and voicemails. You can use this number to make domestic and international calls from your web browser and mobile devices. If you're in the US, you can choose your own number.
On September 8th, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Morocco with devastating effects. Meanwhile, on September 10th, Mediterranean Storm Daniel brought heavy rainfall and flooding to eastern Libya, causing large-scale destruction as a result of two dams collapsing south of the city of Derna. These events will have profound and far-reaching impacts on lives and livelihoods in months and years to come.
VOICE calls on international NGOs and the international community to devote more attention to the situation in Syria and to raise their voices in support of the women and girls who are at great risk. It is imperative that their voices are heard and that their fundamental rights are preserved, especially in the aftermath of this disaster.
In August 2021, as the Taliban took over Kabul, the international community evacuated thousands of Afghan women human rights defenders whose lives were at risk. These women and their families were taken to countries such as Turkey, Greece, Albania, and Qatar while their resettlement processes began. More than a year later, many of them are still in transit. Many of their family members are still in Afghanistan; their friends and colleagues are dispersed around the world in search of safety and security; and their lives are seemingly on hold.
Food insecurity is a growing issue impacting the lives of refugee women and girls in Hungary, according to a new report produced by VOICE and in collaboration with local partners throughout the country. The report is based on data and stories collected from refugee women and girls at food distribution sites and from the local organizations working tirelessly to serve them.
The Voice of Witness Book Series depicts human rights issues through the edited oral histories of people who are deeply impacted and whose lived experiences are at the heart of finding solutions to address injustice. We use an ethics-driven methodology that combines journalistic integrity and an engaging, literary approach.
The Voice of Witness education program brings unheard stories and oral history to classrooms across the US, centering marginalized voices and connecting students with training and tools for storytelling. Our resources and services address the need for inclusive, culturally relevant learning opportunities.
Through partnerships and services, VOW works with communities to teach ethical storytelling practices, develop oral history projects, and create educational resources. We offer expert storytelling and program support to organizations, advocates, educators, artists, networks, and more.
Did you miss our spring event series, Oral History in Practice: Community-Based Projects? It explored connections between storytelling and community building, representation, ethics, advocacy, narrative change, and more. Watch the recordings here.
VOICE is a student-run organization that seeks to increase awareness, respect, and sensitivity to differences among all individuals and communities in the field of veterinary medicine. VOICE also aims to celebrate diversity within our profession, to encourage campus environments that embrace diversity and promote the success of all students, and to emphasize the importance of cross-cultural awareness in veterinary medicine in order to meet the needs of our diversifying clientele. Lastly, in order to ensure a more diverse future for veterinary medicine, VOICE chapters provide leadership and mentorship to youth, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds, who are interested in careers as veterinarians.
In each of these regards, we feel that there is a gap in the curriculum of American veterinary colleges, and that it is therefore the duty of VOICE to partner with the colleges to fill this gap in the curriculum by offering promotional and financial support for educational, social, and service events that elevate the topics of diversity and inclusion in the discourse of our profession.
We are a unified, student-led voice that contributes to the enhancement of diversity in the profession and to the cultural competency of veterinary students. We plan to work with the AVMA, SAVMA, and AAVMC regarding these issues as they relate to the veterinary profession.
In the future, VOICE hopes to establish a chapter at every veterinary college, to create a diverse national network of mentors in the various fields of veterinary medicine, and to establish a scholarship fund that will reward veterinary students for showing outstanding leadership and commitment in the area of diversity. With the participation of our student members, support from our colleges and the commitment to making an impact on the profession, VOICE is excited for what is to come for us in the future!
After bringing her home, we discovered she had chronic health issues from unethical breeding. With a lot of vet visits, love and patience she was able to heal and blossom into a happy kitty. Bella inspires us every day to help other animals and give them a voice.
Kevin Ahrendt, a former mathematics professor, took up the task and created microWakeWord in his spare time. It is a wake word engine optimized to run fast and reliably on microcontrollers. It was made for ESPHome, but it is available standalone and under the Apache 2.0 open source license. No one will ever have to pay for wake words ever again.
We are proud to announce that microWakeWord has become a collaboration partner of the Open Home Foundation (OHF). The foundation owns and supports Home Assistant, ESPHome, and our Text-to-Speech engine, Piper. The collaboration partner status recognizes microWakeWord as an important technology for the Open Home.
Nabu Casa, the company behind Home Assistant Cloud, has no investors and its sole purpose is to serve the Open Home Foundation. The money it earns is used to hire developers to work on Home Assistant and other Open Home projects. They have been a driving force behind voice development and are building their own ESPHome-based voice hardware, to allow anyone to enjoy a privacy-focused voice assistant.
Ask and you shall receive - in February this year we asked our community what features they want from a voice assistant, and next to controlling devices and responding to wake words, timers were the third most requested. This is just one example of how our roadmap is helping us spot gaps and build solutions.
Timers are available today on ESPHome and Wyoming voice satellites that are connected to the latest version of Home Assistant. If you use the firmware we provided for the Atom Echo Dev Kit or the ESP32-S3 Box 3, update to the latest version for timer support.
Speaking of LLMs, our Home Assistant 2024.6 update allows AI agents to control your devices. This is part of our broader AI strategy we outlined in a recent blog. It will be an important part of the future smart home, and Home Assistant will be the best platform for AI because of its focus on privacy and choice. We know it is not for everyone, nor is it ready for mass adoption, but we are making it available to experiment with. Give it a try on your voice hardware today, with device control currently available on both Google AI and OpenAI.
Our voice satellites are powered by ESPHome, our open source framework for making private, secure, and reliable smart home devices of all kinds. We are regularly improving our voice capabilities in updates and we want our users to have easy access to these new features.
With the latest version of ESPHome we have introduced Over-the-Air updates. Following our upcoming Home Assistant 2024.7 release, users building a ready-made voice satellite projects (such as the Atom Echo or S3 Box), will be able to update the device directly from Home Assistant without requiring the ESPHome add-on. These devices can download their firmware directly from the web, no building required.
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in which the vocal folds (vocal cords) are the primary sound source. (Other sound production mechanisms produced from the same general area of the body involve the production of unvoiced consonants, clicks, whistling and whispering.)
Generally speaking, the mechanism for generating the human voice can be subdivided into three parts; the lungs, the vocal folds within the larynx (voice box), and the articulators. The lungs, the "pump" must produce adequate airflow and air pressure to vibrate vocal folds. The vocal folds (vocal cords) then vibrate to use airflow from the lungs to create audible pulses that form the laryngeal sound source.[1] The muscles of the larynx adjust the length and tension of the vocal folds to 'fine-tune' pitch and tone. The articulators (the parts of the vocal tract above the larynx consisting of tongue, palate, cheek, lips, etc.) articulate and filter the sound emanating from the larynx and to some degree can interact with the laryngeal airflow to strengthen or weaken it as a sound source.
The vocal folds, in combination with the articulators, are capable of producing highly intricate arrays of sound.[2][3][4] The tone of voice may be modulated to suggest emotions such as anger, surprise, fear, happiness or sadness. The human voice is used to express emotion,[5] and can also reveal the age and sex of the speaker.[6][7][8] Singers use the human voice as an instrument for creating music.[9]
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