Recently, Meta AI open-sourced a foundational multimodal language model named SPIRIT LM, which can freely mix text and speech, opening new possibilities for multimodal tasks involving audio and text. SPIRIT LM is based on a pre-trained text language model with 7 billion parameters, which has been continuously trained on text and speech units, expanding into the speech modality. It can understand and generate text like a large text model, while also being capable of understanding and generating speech, and even mixing text and speech to create various forms of expression.

Microsoft has recently made significant progress in the field of enterprise AI intelligences, establishing the world's largest enterprise AI intelligent ecosystem. Since the launch of Copilot Studio, over 100,000 organizations have participated in the creation and editing of AI intelligences. This milestone signifies Microsoft's leading position in the enterprise technology sector. Microsoft executive Charles Lamanna stated that the growth rate exceeded expectations, being faster than the adoption rate of any cutting-edge technology previously released by the company.

According to Canalys, in the third quarter of 2024, the global personal smart audio devices market experienced a strong rebound, with total shipments nearing 126 million units, representing a 15% increase year-over-year. This growth trend indicates that the market has successfully emerged from the sluggish state of 2023 and is showing a strong momentum of continuous recovery. All major sub-regions have benefited from this widespread growth, with all major product categories achieving double-digit growth in shipments. Among all markets, India's performance was especially notable, with a shipment increase of 51%, compared to 2023.

TikTok recently announced that its AI-driven video generation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, is now fully available to all TikTok business users. This tool will provide advertisers and content creators with an unprecedented creative experience. This intelligent tool, which integrates video generation, transformation, and expansion functions, aims to help advertisers and creators overcome the bottleneck between creativity and production, making the video creation process simpler and more efficient. Users can access the full suite of features at no additional cost.

In today's wave of technology, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important part of our lives. However, fast, efficient, and real-time interactions remain a significant challenge. The issue of latency, which refers to the time difference between input and response, often slows down the experience of customer service robots and virtual assistants, affecting user satisfaction. To address this gap, Standard Intelligence Lab has recently launched Hertz-Dev, an open-source audio model with 850 million parameters.

Google AI Studio and Gemini API have recently launched the 'Real-Time Connection with Google Search' feature, aimed at helping developers improve the accuracy of AI model responses by integrating real-time data from Google Search. With this update, the Gemini 1.5 model can retrieve the latest information from Google Search, enhancing the accuracy and transparency of responses. Developers can directly access this feature in the 'Tools' section of Google AI Studio or in the Gemini API.

Microsoft recently launched its latest product - an autonomous AI agent, also known as 'Virtual Employees', at an event in London. These AI workers can independently handle customer inquiries and identify sales leads, which means companies can operate more efficiently. Notably, Microsoft offers not only ten ready-made AI robots but also allows clients to customize AI agents based on their needs, bringing new opportunities to various industries. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, and image rights are provided by Midjourney.

Microsoft is conducting 'AI Tour' events in 60 cities worldwide. These one-day events aim to bridge the gap, allowing business professionals interested in AI to engage directly with Microsoft engineers and sales teams to discuss how to create 'AI-first' enterprises and the potential applications of its core technology, Copilot.

OpenAI once again leads the trend in artificial intelligence technology with the launch of the brand new gpt-4o-audio-preview model. This model not only showcases impressive capabilities in speech generation and analysis but also opens up new possibilities for human-computer interaction. Let's delve into the features of this innovative model and its potential applications. The core functionalities of gpt-4o-audio-preview include three main aspects: first, it can generate natural and fluent voice responses based on text, serving applications such as voice assistants and virtual customer service.

Google announced on Thursday a significant upgrade to its AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM, bringing users a smarter and more personalized experience. This update focuses mainly on the highly anticipated audio overview feature, allowing users to guide the AI-generated conversation content more precisely, concentrating on specific topics rather than just generating comprehensive audio summaries. Since its launch last month, the audio overview feature of NotebookLM has rapidly gained popularity due to its podcast-like AI-generated conversation format, with many users beginning to share their experiences on social media.

When creating engaging videos, audio plays a crucial role alongside visuals. However, finding or producing the right sound effects can often be a time-consuming task. At Adobe's annual MAX conference, they showcased an experimental prototype called Project Super Sonic, a technology that can generate sound effects from text, recognize objects in videos, and even utilize your voice to quickly produce background sounds and effects for video projects. While the feature of generating sound effects from text prompts sounds promising,

At the global creative conference Adobe MAX 2024, Adobe launched its latest product - GenStudio, a brand new solution specifically designed for performance marketing. GenStudio is part of the Adobe GenStudio ecosystem and aims to help businesses achieve greater efficiency and personalized experiences in content creation and marketing processes. It optimizes every marketing stage comprehensively from content planning and creation to management, activation, and performance measurement.

Shenzhen Riecho Technology Co., Ltd. recently issued a statement confirming that the audio portion of the audiovisual materials circulated on September 16 was cloned by the suspect using its self-developed Reecho AI voice generation model platform. The audio is derived from a live broadcast segment by Lu. The company has initiated an internal review mechanism to strengthen user identity authentication and audio generation security management to ensure the lawful and compliant use of the technology. Reecho stated that as a startup team established less than a year ago, we are committed to frontier technologies in audio and anthropomorphic artificial intelligence.

In today's rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, voice synthesis and transformation technologies are evolving at an extraordinary pace, providing us with incredibly realistic and natural audio experiences. However, these technological advancements also bring potential security risks, particularly as 'voice cloning' technology could be exploited by malicious individuals, threatening personal privacy and social stability. In response to this challenge, the Intelligent System Security Laboratory of Zhejiang University and Tsinghua University have joined forces to launch a revolutionary audio forgery detection framework - SafeEar. This framework not only efficiently detects forged audio but also ensures privacy protection during the detection process.