Uber launches video ads across its apps, including Drizly

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Uber is launching video ads across its apps, including Uber Eats and Drizly, its newly acquired alcohol delivery service. The Wall Street Journal reports that users will see ads up to 90 seconds long while waiting for a ride or order and another personalized ad on a tablet in the car during their trip. Uber says it can target ads based on users’ location, destination, preferences, and history.

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MacWhisper's latest update lets you view entire transcript as one piece

MacWhisper is a macOS app that lets you transcribe audio and video files into text on your Mac. The developer of MacWhisper, Jordi Bruin, has recently released version 3.0 of the app with several enhancements. 

One of them is Display Mode, which shows you the whole transcript as a single text. You can easily switch between Display Mode the other modes. You can also export batch transcription files, export these to DOTE file format, and export a full transcript text file.

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Voicebox is Meta’s first entry into the generative AI space for speech

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Meta has recently unveiled its first generative artificial intelligence tool for speech. The tool, named Voicebox, can handle various speech-generation tasks without being explicitly trained for them, thanks to its in-context learning ability.

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