#Collaborate

[iidentifyasapotaato]

I want Hozier and Taylor Swift to collaborate sooo bad

[bana-ki-art]

Dag.: So it turns out I have to kill him.

Wayl.: well, not directly "kill", which means "kill", I would say, very much to hurt.)

This is my art, sketch, with the character @mortismotorola . As far as I understand Wayland is a killer or something like that, and Dagny gets hooked on it. It was a thrill for me to draw this work. I hope you liked how I depicted it.)))

[r0ckyreck]

So

Good morning,

18/09 was the day that the show premiere

While not everyone loves them, but Sonic SatAM is a part of Sonic. i really care for it even if it doesn't jive with the rest of the Sonic idea.

The Freedom Fighters will forever be Sonic's friends, Tails being cute, and the amazing Dr.Robotnik, Snivley, too. This man always brought me a good laugh and a reason to see him more

And not forgetting to mention Sally Acorn, the dudette protagonist of the show, specifically designed to be the Sonic's foil character; to show Sonic's weaknesses and strengths and always a fun time to see her grow and to learn more about the kingdom she must rule in the future

To artists, the sound design crew of this show, and of course Ben Hurst it's incredible to see what little of sonic everyone had but was able to bring a character so energetic and fun for small screen.

God bless you all.

I also wish to bring attention to the wonderful animation of the SatAm Rejuiced which is a participation of many artist do re-do a episode of Sonic SatAM

https://youtu.be/QPeSS-VJ180?si=NtPD5LHxKGowqvIl

[jcmarchi]

DeepL Revolutionizes Language AI with Launch of DeepL Voice for Real-Time Multilingual Communication

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DeepL Revolutionizes Language AI with Launch of DeepL Voice for Real-Time Multilingual Communication

DeepL, a global leader in Language AI, has launched DeepL Voice, a cutting-edge voice translation tool designed to facilitate seamless communication across languages. With an estimated valuation of $2 billion, DeepL has earned its place as a premier provider of language solutions for enterprises and individuals alike. This latest product, DeepL Voice, enables multilingual interactions in real-time, bridging language gaps in both virtual and face-to-face settings. This milestone was celebrated during DeepL’s first flagship event, DeepL Dialogues, in Berlin.

What is DeepL Voice?

DeepL Voice is the company’s first product focused on voice-based translation, expanding beyond DeepL’s renowned text translation services. Available in two specialized models—Voice for Meetings and Voice for Conversations—DeepL Voice offers real-time translated captions, empowering global teams to communicate seamlessly without language constraints. DeepL Voice is designed to work across virtual meeting platforms and mobile devices, making it versatile for various business needs, from multinational collaborations to customer-facing roles.

The tool supports numerous languages, including English, German, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, and more, with captions available in all 33 languages supported by the DeepL Translator. With these capabilities, DeepL Voice aims to enhance productivity and inclusivity by eliminating language barriers that often hinder global business interactions.

DeepL Voice for Meetings: Empowering Multilingual Virtual Meetings

One of the flagship applications of DeepL Voice is Voice for Meetings, which allows participants to speak in their preferred language during virtual meetings while providing real-time translated captions for others. This enables every attendee to understand and contribute fully, regardless of language fluency. By supporting natural multilingual dialogue, Voice for Meetings promotes clear communication and meaningful engagement, paving the way for more effective global collaboration.

Christine Aubry, Internationalisation Coordinator at Brioche Pasquier, an early adopter of DeepL Voice, shared her experience: “Our teams felt truly connected, opening up new possibilities for collaboration that were previously limited by language constraints. DeepL Voice for Meetings brought our teams closer together.”

DeepL Voice for Conversations: Facilitating One-on-One, In-Person Communication

For in-person conversations, Voice for Conversations operates on mobile devices, enabling real-time translations during one-on-one interactions. This application is designed for customer-facing and frontline roles, where language barriers can have immediate impacts on service quality and operational efficiency. With Voice for Conversations, DeepL provides companies a solution to support their multilingual workforce and improve customer interactions, enhancing both customer satisfaction and employee effectiveness.

Addressing the Challenges of Real-Time Voice Translation

DeepL Voice’s development involved tackling unique technical challenges associated with real-time translation, such as handling incomplete inputs, pronunciation differences, and latency issues. Unlike text translation, real-time voice translation demands instant processing to avoid disruptions and inaccuracies in conversation. To overcome these challenges, DeepL’s engineers leveraged years of data and AI expertise, training their models to account for variations in accents, regional dialects, and environmental factors. The result is a robust solution that provides clear, contextually accurate translations at high speed.

Jarek Kutylowski, CEO and founder of DeepL, explained, “Real-time speech translation introduces a new level of complexity. By building on the AI and linguistic expertise we’ve honed since 2017, we’ve overcome challenges like incomplete input and pronunciation variations, ensuring businesses can engage globally without language constraints.”

Reducing Business Costs from Ineffective Communication

Language barriers can be costly for businesses, and DeepL Voice addresses these inefficiencies directly. Ineffective communication can cost companies up to $54,860 per employee annually, according to Axios HQ. DeepL Voice eliminates these barriers by offering high-quality, real-time translation, reducing the likelihood of miscommunication and enhancing team collaboration.

DeepL: A Leader in Language AI Innovation

Founded in 2017, DeepL has quickly established itself as a trusted provider of language solutions, now used by over 100,000 businesses, including half of the Fortune 500. DeepL’s Language AI platform, known for its accuracy and enterprise-grade security, is built on proprietary language models fine-tuned over years to handle complex linguistic nuances. Today, the platform serves clients across 228 markets, providing them with tools for both written and spoken language needs.

Backed by top-tier investors like Benchmark, IVP, and Index Ventures, DeepL continues to expand its product offerings with a commitment to meeting the highest standards in quality and security. Earlier in 2024, the company released a next-generation language model that surpasses competitors such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, Google, and Microsoft in translation quality. This model, built on DeepL’s proprietary data, is optimized for fewer edits, further enhancing productivity for enterprise users.

Integrating DeepL Voice in Global Operations: Key Use Cases

With its versatility, DeepL Voice has numerous applications across various business sectors:

Global Team Meetings: Virtual meetings can now include participants speaking different languages, enabling a more inclusive environment where everyone can fully engage.

Frontline Customer Service: Customer-facing employees, especially in retail, healthcare, and hospitality, can now offer support in the language most comfortable for each customer, enhancing service quality and customer loyalty.

Manufacturing and Safety Operations: Real-time voice translation allows employees in high-stakes environments to understand critical information without delay, reducing the risks associated with miscommunication.

DeepL’s Broader Impact on Language and Communication

DeepL Voice represents more than just a product launch; it is a significant milestone in DeepL’s mission to eliminate language barriers worldwide. By enabling instant multilingual communication, DeepL Voice empowers businesses to leverage their global talent, foster stronger relationships, and expand into new markets. From multinational corporations to government agencies, DeepL’s language AI tools are designed to streamline operations, improve productivity, and enhance communication across diverse workforces.

What’s Next for DeepL?

DeepL’s journey in language technology is far from over. The company is continuously expanding its capabilities, with plans to introduce additional languages and advanced AI features in future releases. With the next-generation large language model already outperforming industry giants, DeepL is poised to set new standards in the field, offering tools that not only translate but truly bridge gaps in human communication.

Summary

DeepL Voice is a game-changing solution for businesses that face language challenges in daily operations. By facilitating clear, real-time communication across languages, DeepL Voice allows businesses to foster inclusivity, reduce miscommunication costs, and operate with greater efficiency. This innovation is another leap forward in DeepL’s mission to connect the world through language AI, transforming how we communicate, and collaborate.

[thedimlaltain]

tumblr is so different from other social media platforms.

Love that it doesn’t have comments but replies. I still wonder how I see so little of trolling.

Reblogs build up on the posts and somehow creatively make it expansive. Iss never fighting. Or rarely fighting.

And nothing gets lost. Like it’s not like something that is in your feed will get lost. Your posts are eternal. Someone will dig up that shit at some point in time and relate or connect to it. Blogs are not blackholes.

What an atmosphere.

I am vibing so much. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😍🥰🥰

[wokeupcold]

prod me (akimbos)

tag @sunnbabi

[theelusivepoetalien]

if you think u don't understand polyamory (multiamory, polyphilia, ethical nonmonogamy, relationship anarchy, just never really narrowing down, etc)

just like think what if Frank Oz and Jim Henson friend brokeup early?

[globalnetworkingbarter]

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[allieisacrybaby]

Authors if you ever need or want a moodboard for a fic you’re writing I would love to collaborate with you! My inbox and messages are always open!!😁

[fatpunkstudio]

The “Leaves San Mai” is coming. Here’s a razor sharp sneak peak before the official launch of our collaboration with @goonigans_uk. Discover more collaborations via link below.

www.fatpunkstudio.com/collaborations

[freakshow8]

Goretober:)

Collab with @abeline-cullen

[creationtvstation]

Throwback to NWS3:

For the first time in over 3yrs, I finally started making music again while in the nights & weekends cohort with buildspace. I love playing with the Launchpad iOS app — so I went on a livestream arranging beats. First time listen to the sample packs, so I didn't know how any of the songs would end up. Just creating on the fly!

I later made a video taking a look at Kaizen, a new music & social app found on product hunt -- giving artists a new way to share music with step versions, tracking the evolution from draft to master. Think soundcloud + GitHub's version control.

a couple songs I made with the launchpad app are now on kaizen to play with different versions over time! go check out both apps! 

[relaxwithaaron]

I play guitar, you dancing like this, videos go viral. Collaborate?

[glitterandsalt]

No more noncollaborative friendships, we both gotta put in the effort

If I gotta get driven the 60 miles into the city to come see you, it'd be nice if you met me at the bus stop so I didn't have to take it and walk to your house alone - stuff like that

[jcmarchi]

3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia

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3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia

In 2021, Michael Short, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering, approached professor of anthropology Manduhai Buyandelger with an unusual pitch: collaborating on a project to prototype a molten salt heat bank in Mongolia, Buyandelger’s country of origin and place of her scholarship. It was also an invitation to forge a novel partnership between two disciplines that rarely overlap. Developed in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia (NUM), the device was built to provide heat for people in colder climates, and in places where clean energy is a challenge. 

Buyandelger and Short teamed up to launch Anthro-Engineering Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale, an initiative intended to advance the heat bank idea in Mongolia, and ultimately demonstrate its potential as a scalable clean heat source in comparably challenging sites around the world. This project received funding from the inaugural MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium Seed Awards program. In order to fund various components of the project, especially student involvement and additional staff, the project also received support from the MIT Global Seed Fund, New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET), Experiential Learning Office, Vice Provost for International Activities, and d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education.

As part of this initiative, the partners developed a special topic course in anthropology to teach MIT undergraduates about Mongolia’s unique energy and climate challenges, as well as the historical, social, and economic context in which the heat bank would ideally find a place. The class 21A.S01 (Anthro-Engineering: Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale) prepares MIT students for a January Independent Activities Period (IAP) trip to the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, where they embed with Mongolian families, conduct research, and collaborate with their peers. Mongolian students also engaged in the project. Anthropology research scientist and lecturer Lauren Bonilla, who has spent the past two decades working in Mongolia, joined to co-teach the class and lead the IAP trips to Mongolia. 

With the project now in its third year and yielding some promising solutions on the ground, Buyandelger and Bonilla reflect on the challenges for anthropologists of advancing a clean energy technology in a developing nation with a unique history, politics, and culture. 

Q: Your roles in the molten salt heat bank project mark departures from your typical academic routine. How did you first approach this venture?

Buyandelger: As an anthropologist of contemporary religion, politics, and gender in Mongolia, I have had little contact with the hard sciences or building or prototyping technology. What I do best is listening to people and working with narratives. When I first learned about this device for off-the-grid heating, a host of issues came straight to mind right away that are based on socioeconomic and cultural context of the place. The salt brick, which is encased in steel, must be heated to 400 degrees Celsius in a central facility, then driven to people’s homes. Transportation is difficult in Ulaanbaatar, and I worried about road safety when driving the salt brick to gers [traditional Mongolian homes] where many residents live. The device seemed a bit utopian to me, but I realized that this was an amazing educational opportunity: We could use the heat bank as part of an ethnographic project, so students could learn about the everyday lives of people — crucially, in the dead of winter — and how they might respond to this new energy technology in the neighborhoods of Ulaanbaatar.

Bonilla: When I first went to Mongolia in the early 2000s as an undergraduate student, the impacts of climate change were already being felt. There had been a massive migration to the capital after a series of terrible weather events that devastated the rural economy. Coal mining had emerged as a vital part of the economy, and I was interested in how people regarded this industry that both provided jobs and damaged the air they breathed. I am trained as a human geographer, which involves seeing how things happening in a local place correspond to things happening at a global scale. Thinking about climate or sustainability from this perspective means making linkages between social life and environmental life. In Mongolia, people associated coal with national progress. Based on historical experience, they had low expectations for interventions brought by outsiders to improve their lives. So my first take on the molten salt project was that this was no silver bullet solution. At the same time, I wanted to see how we could make this a great project-based learning experience for students, getting them to think about the kind of research necessary to see if some version of the molten salt would work.

Q: After two years, what lessons have you and the students drawn from both the class and the Ulaanbaatar field trips?

Buyandelger: We wanted to make sure MIT students would not go to Mongolia and act like consultants. We taught them anthropological methods so they could understand the experiences of real people and think about how to bring people and new technologies together. The students, from engineering and anthropological and social science backgrounds, became critical thinkers who could analyze how people live in ger districts. When they stay with families in Ulaanbaatar in January, they not only experience the cold and the pollution, but they observe what people do for work, how parents care for their children, how they cook, sleep, and get from one place to another. This enables them to better imagine and test out how these people might utilize the molten salt heat bank in their homes.

Bonilla: In class, students learn that interventions like this often fail because the implementation process doesn’t work, or the technology doesn’t meet people’s real needs. This is where anthropology is so important, because it opens up the wider landscape in which you’re intervening. We had really difficult conversations about the professional socialization of engineers and social scientists. Engineers love to work within boxes, but don’t necessarily appreciate the context in which their invention will serve.

As a group, we discussed the provocative notion that engineers construct and anthropologists deconstruct. This makes it seem as if engineers are creators, and anthropologists are brought in as add-ons to consult and critique engineers’ creations. Our group conversation concluded that a project such as ours benefits from an iterative back-and-forth between the techno-scientific and humanistic disciplines.

Q: So where does the molten salt brick project stand?

Bonilla: Our research in Mongolia helped us produce a prototype that can work: Our partners at NUM are developing a hybrid stove that incorporates the molten salt brick. Supervised by instructor Nathan Melenbrink of MIT’s NEET program, our engineering students have been involved in this prototyping as well.

The concept is for a family to heat it up using a coal fire once a day and it warms their home overnight. Based on our anthropological research, we believe that this stove would work better than the device as originally conceived. It won’t eliminate coal use in residences, but it will reduce emissions enough to have a meaningful impact on ger districts in Ulaanbaatar. The challenge now is getting funding to NUM so they can test different salt combinations and stove models and employ local blacksmiths to work on the design.

This integrated stove/heat bank will not be the ultimate solution to the heating and pollution crisis in Mongolia. But it will be something that can inspire even more ideas. We feel with this project we are planting all kinds of seeds that will germinate in ways we cannot anticipate. It has sparked new relationships between MIT and Mongolian students, and catalyzed engineers to integrate a more humanistic, anthropological perspective in their work.

Buyandelger: Our work illustrates the importance of anthropology in responding to the unpredictable and diverse impacts of climate change. Without our ethnographic research — based on participant observation and interviews, led by Dr. Bonilla, — it would have been impossible to see how the prototyping and modifications could be done, and where the molten salt brick could work and what shape it needed to take. This project demonstrates how indispensable anthropology is in moving engineering out of labs and companies and directly into communities.

Bonilla: This is where the real solutions for climate change are going to come from. Even though we need solutions quickly, it will also take time for new technologies like molten salt bricks to take root and grow. We don’t know where the outcomes of these experiments will take us. But there’s so much that’s emerging from this project that I feel very hopeful about.