Free, ad-supported creator content comes to The Roku Channel

March 1, 2023

Roku struck a deal with creator company Jellysmack to launch new content featuring 17 popular YouTube and TikTok creators like Brad Mondo, Lauren Riihimaki (LaurDIY), Emmy Cho (Emmymade), Karina Garcia and more. The company announced yesterday that it’s launching two free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels, “Hello Inspo” and “Mysteria,” to The Roku Channel’s Live TV […]

Free, ad-supported creator content comes to The Roku Channel by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI debuts Whisper API for text-to-speech transcription and translation

March 1, 2023

To coincide with the rollout of the ChatGPT API, OpenAI today launched the Whisper API, a hosted version of the open source Whisper speech-to-text model that the company released in September. Priced at $0.006 per minute, Whisper is an automatic speech recognition system that OpenAI claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as […]

OpenAI debuts Whisper API for text-to-speech transcription and translation by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch