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Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don’t want it to replace them
20Feb By adminNo Comments
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Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don’t want it to replace them

[ad_1] If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish blacksmith to forge a virtual sword, you might be hearing the voice of actor Andy Magee.Except it's not quite Magee's voice. It's a synthetic voice clone generated by artificial intelligence. As video game worlds get more expansive, some game studios are experimenting with AI tools to give voice to a potentially unlimited number of characters and conversations. It also saves time and money on the “vocal scratch” recordings game developers use as placeholders to test scenes and scripts. The response from professional actors has been mixed. Some fear that AI voices could replace all but the most famous human actors if big studios have their way. Others, like Magee, have been willing...
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Roblox Grapples With Employee Demands for More Diversity
18Jul By adminNo Comments
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Roblox Grapples With Employee Demands for More Diversity

[ad_1] In the spring of 2021, the staff at video-game juggernaut Roblox Corp. gathered for an all-hands meeting over the video conferencing app Zoom. An employee submitted by text a question to executives about why there were so few women at the top ranks of the company. According to multiple people in attendance, the company's co-founder and chief executive officer David Baszucki accepted the query at the virtual get-together and responded by saying that Roblox has a very high bar in hiring.Several of the women there said they found the comment dismissive, but not surprising. In public and private forums, the 60-year-old Baszucki and his deputies often noted that the goal of the San Mateo, California-based company was to “hire the best people.” Three of the 15 current or former female ...
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Explainer-How Microsoft is addressing antitrust concerns over Activision deal
23Feb By adminNo Comments
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Explainer-How Microsoft is addressing antitrust concerns over Activision deal

[ad_1] Microsoft has thrown the gauntlet down over antitrust criticisms, saying on Tuesday it is ready to offer rivals licensing deals in exchange for regulatory approval of its $69 billion deal to purchase video game publisher Activision, but it would not to sell the latter's lucrative "Call of Duty" franchise. WHAT IS THE ACTIVISION DEAL? Microsoft announced the Activision bid in January last year, its biggest ever, to boost its firepower in the booming videogaming market and take on leaders Tencent and Sony, and lay the base for its investment in metaverse, digital spaces which are made more lifelike by the use of virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR). WHAT DO ANTITRUST REGULATORS SAY? In December, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked a judge to block the d...
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Playing video game causes no harm to cognitive abilities: Study
13Feb By adminNo Comments
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Playing video game causes no harm to cognitive abilities: Study

[ad_1] New research findings call into question parents' long-held beliefs that children who spend hours upon hours playing video games or chose games of certain genres, will have negative effects on their cognitive abilities. "Our studies turned up no such links, regardless of how long the children played and what types of games they chose," said Jie Zhang, associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Houston College of Education and a member of the research team. The work is published in the Journal of Media Psychology. In reaching the conclusions, researchers examined the video gaming habits of 160 diverse urban public-school preteen students (70 per cent from lower-income households), which represents an age group less studied in previous research. Pa...
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Google Doodle celebrates 82nd birthday of video game legend Gerald ‘Jerry’ Lawson
1Dec By adminNo Comments
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Google Doodle celebrates 82nd birthday of video game legend Gerald ‘Jerry’ Lawson

[ad_1] Google Doodle is celebrating the 82nd birthday of the video game legend Gerald “Jerry” Lawson by featuring games designed by three American guest artists and game designers: Davionne Gooden, Lauren Brown, and Momo Pixel. Do you love playing video games? In order to be able to play such games you need to have a gaming system. Do you know who developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges? Google Doodle is celebrating the 82nd birthday of the video game legend Gerald “Jerry” Lawson. Today's Doodle features games designed by three American guest artists and game designers: Davionne Gooden, Lauren Brown, and Momo Pixel."Today's interactive game Doodle celebrates the 82nd birthday of Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, one of the fathers of modern gaming who le...
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