for many of us, our voice is the central pa rt many of us, our voice is the central part of who we are lose it would be to lose a sense of our very identity. here in yonkers in new york, one man who lost his voice to motor neurone disease has been given back his sense of self through technology. project revoice is an international initiative to help give people with mnd or als their voice back. using software from canada—based company lyrebird, it can synthesise an accurate recreation of someone‘s voice from a relatively small amount of audio. lyrebird's software was famously and controversially used last year to recreate the voices of us presidents donald trump and barack 0bama. voice of donald trump: i am not a robot. my intonation is different. pat quinn was one of the early cofounders of the challenge. he was diagnosed with als in march 2013. the extent of his illness now means he cannot speak. he was one of the first to be given his voice back by project revoice. one of the things that we hear from people with als is that they, you know, that their voice really reflects themselves

with voice banking and voice messaging in general we just wa nt voice messaging in general we just wantas many people as we can and in as easy as possible and truly make it commonplace for people to be using in theirown commonplace for people to be using in their own authentic voices when they communicate. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that a security researcher discovered that wearing 00 style cloud make—up could fall some facial recognition systems. the skies are fans of hip—hop outfits the insane cloud posse. thousands of fortnight players infected their computers with malware after downloading cheap softwa re with malware after downloading cheap software to try and improve their game. they say trailers give away the best it is of the film. somebody at sony pictures is in hot water after uploading the entire movie to youtube instead of just after uploading the entire movie to youtube instead ofjust the trailer. researchers at harvard have developed a robotic cockroach that can work what might walk on land and water and even go for a dive. the amulet or a micr

i was iwas in i was in shock when i lost my voice. idid not i was in shock when i lost my voice. i would ever be able to speak again. one of the things that we hear from people with als is that they, you know, that their voice really reflects themselves and their own thinking about themselves. but we also hear it from their family members and that is really where, you know, people say that we weren't thinking about the fact that we would not be able to hear this person speak any longer until it was gone. and now, suddenly, we missed their voice and missed that side of them. so there is something inherently unique about a person's voice that hopefully we are able to capture and keep in the future. pat concedes that his new voice is not perfect. because he did not record this voice prior to losing it, lyrebird used online videos and speeches as their basis. lyrebird's algorithms analyse several hours of quality recordings to digitally recreate a person's speech. i don't think there are many companies before have done something that allow people to copy their voice off a small amoun

he wasn't like a witty collection of voices. >> voice acting isn't as easy as we think it is.ice to convey the comedy. >> once you create a voice you never forget it. >> porky pig will come along, suffering succotash. i saw a putty cat. >> he led the way for guys like me. >> seal of approval, only find it on products which meet the high personal standards of crusty the clown. >> the voice talent on the simpsons is a point of inspiration, there's always something great from the voice acting that you can mine for performances, how you're going to direct the shots, and overall the look of the characters get inspired by the vocal choices. >> you almost start drawing characters for the voice person you have in mind. people like tress mcneil and billy west. >> i looked at these characters and thought long and hard before i opened my mouth. phillip jay frye. >> shut up and take my money. >> dr. zoidberg had all this cool meat hanging on his face. i thought he would have an impediment. >> here i come. >> from the simpsons, i loved doing agnes skinner, it's a voice easy for me to do, i

man's voice: this voice is terrible. i hate it. i sound like a professor i would not listen to. like to see a person's voice be accessible as possible to them so that they can use their voice whenever they want to use it. and have it be ease—of—use, true ease—of—use. with voice banking and voice messaging generally we just want to try and bring it to as many people as we can and in as easy a way as possible and truly make it commonplace for people to be using their own authentic voices when they communicate. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that a security researcher discovered that wearing juggalo style clown make—up could fool some facial recognition systems. juggalos are fans of hip—hop outfits the insane clown posse. thousands of fortnite players infected their computers with malware after downloading cheat software to try and improve their game. they say trailers give away the best bits of the film. somebody at sony pictures is in hot water after uploading the entire movie, khali the killer, to youtube instead ofjust the trailer. researchers at harvard

[speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: family housing. families can live with dignity and respect. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: good morning my name is margarita. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i'm a member with the coalition on homelessness. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i'm here to request a fair budget. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: so you provide funding for first friendships ,-guessed shelter, homeless shelter. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: there are no showers for children to take a shower. what do you think about that? i am here to provide more budget for housing. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: as well as your help with subsidi subsidies, as i am receiving some housing subsidies for me and my family. >> voice of translator: so my children have better housing. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator:

we will continue to stand up and provide a voice for working people.not only in san francisco, but in this nation and in this world. it is important that amidst this despair this world. it is important that amidst this despair, we can come together and break bread and celebrate some of these victories. under the leadership of tim paulson at the time in our labor council, these things were possible. the minimum wage will rise, again. the living wage needs to rise out. [applause] whether it is over a copy, or you are reading mit statistics, you know it costs a lot more than $15 an hour to survive. even with just one person in this city, at the lodge of communities in the bay area. get us on as. 's on labor and community and on our elected's to take bold steps and move this even more forward and make progress and make a living wage a reality for san francisco and then we will see, under the leadership, it will happen across the country and elsewhere. thank you. with that, i will turn it over to pat mulligan. thanks, brother. [applause] >> thank you rudy.

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it's internal, the voice.ach bone structure and each kind of physical structure, a different set of rules for technique. david: so when you went there, you realized you were probably better than the average person, and you began to sing a little bit professionally, but you did some jazz singing. you are not necessarily an opera singer. did you like jazz more than opera? renee: i'm still a jazz fanatic. i listen to a lot of my favorite performers. yeah, i still really love that. i think classical, for me, it was a better fit for my temperament. i was shy. preferred to be in the practice room, kind of unlocking and working on the process of learning how to sing. i loved that as opposed to being an extrovert and a performer. i had to learn that. david: when did you realize you were good enough to be a professional singer? renee: i just kept going along. it wasn't as if i made a decision. when i had the fulbright scholarship, that was a big turning point for me. to be in europe, steeped in a foreign language and s

he says i love so and i love black men as a critical voice of a cast of young voices who now traditional clips of expressions and current global music trends with a global caribbean acetic further as a female she's in a lane of her own. it's a it's a weighty thing but do you see yourself as that young boys who is mixing those two things where no one else's i definitely think so because i think the problem with the use it's a problem but it's actually not a problem at the same time is that we are looking for examples and the examples that we have. it's not necessarily we don't know how to recreate it we don't know how to make a brand new again we don't want to make it trendy like what is happening now and it's like we hear the same thing over and over and over i was just tired of that i love so community and i'm just like why can't i hear something different why why does it sound like the same all song again you know so i felt the need to do that i think that now that's inspiring more young people to have their voice and understand that my voice doesn't need to be just like the voices bef

a great voice teacher.s one of the key components for success, having someone who can help you develop your voice. it's not easy. when you think about it, every instrument is different. it's internal, the voice. it requires for each bone structure and each kind of physical structure, a different set of rules for technique. went there,en you you realized you were probably better than the average person, and you began to sing a little bit professionally, but you did some jazz singing. did you like jazz more than opera? renee: i'm still a jazz fanatic. i listen to a lot of my favorite performers. i still really love that. it i think classical, for me, it was a better fit for my temperament. i was shy. i prefer to be in the practice room, kind of unlocking and working on the process of learning how to sing, as opposed to being an extra work and a performer. i had to learn that. david: when did you realize you were good enough to be a professional singer? renee: it wasn't as if i made a decision. when i had the

it's internal, the voice.es for each bone structure and each kind of physical structure, a different set of rules for technique. david: so when you went there, you realized you were probably better than the average person, and you began to sing a little bit professionally, but you did some jazz singing. did you like jazz more than opera? renee: i'm still a jazz fanatic. i listen to a lot of my favorite performers. i still really love that. it i think classical, for me, it was a better fit for my temperament. i was shy. i prefer to be in the practice room, kind of unlocking and working on the process of learning how to sing, as opposed to being an extrovert and a performer. i had to learn that. david: when did you realize you were good enough to be a professional singer? renee: it wasn't as if i made a decision. when i had the fulbright scholarship, that was a big turning point for me. to be in europe, steeped in a foreign language and studying, i love that. david: how did you actually break through? renee: fin

so, create my digital voice now. creating your digital voice takes one minute.so, before to create from our digital voice you would need to record yourself for at least eight hours. >> said i get to type something. >> the moment of truth. ♪ once the ai has worked its magic, after i am done typing. app cans i put into the be played back in my digital voice. here's the crazy thing, even words i never actually had in the first place. >> artificial intelligence technology seems to be advancing very quickly. actually be afraid? >> i can definitely hear my voice in there. that is really interesting. i just picked those words at random and i definitely did not say some of them and it is lawless in being able to pick rum any word and manufacture it. hello world is the best show i have ever seen. >> this technology seems sweet. it lends itself to all manner of trickery. i popped back to my hotel to test out the technology a little bit and you could see some obvious ways that this could be abused. this is taken donald trump talking. >> the united states is considering, in

and so it is hard to find voice and it is hard to hear your own voice, see your own image, and so when suppress something like that, and you don't feel like the story has been told correctly, you get mad. when you're writing the book, and i would be interested to know how the scheme of it took shape, did you intend it to be polemical and angry? i sense in the book that you don't want to sound as if you are preaching. on the other hand, you cannot help saying this matters. i neither intended it to be angry nor funny and have been surprised when people react in those ways. i just wrote it as true as i could and tried to pay attention to the craft level and sentence level as best as i could write sentences. you were trying to get in the heads of the characters whose voices you are telling the story through. correct. so i was not surprised to hear that it was angry sounding. i have that in me and i know it is in my community. i was a little more surprised by it being funny for people. but i think it's good to mix sadness and humour. i think that's a really important mix. well, and they are

usually white voice. >> pingot no white voice. go to know whai mean. you veve a voice itheir.se it is like getting lled ovebyby e police my regular use voic >> i'm just tryg g to ge yoyou sipt withread yo white voic >> people say i ta with a white voice anyw. we're talking abouthe real deal. cook's y, mr.ramer. i did not catch at the wrong time, did i? >> for people listing on the radio, that was danny glover who isis voicing that. talk about a white voice and what that means. >> in the film, then it glover's character lengthen, that is -- the full piece he explains the white voice does not really exist. white people don't even have it. they use it and it is a performance. there's a performance of whiteness that is all about saying that everything is ok, that -- bills paid, and you know, this kind of smooth and easy thing. at the very least, the idea of what black folks have to do in hide their identity sometime over the phone or to say they're safe. it is like the opposite of the racist black troops out there -- which are there they say, ok, black folks and people of color ar

pat concedes that his new voice is not perfect.peeches as their basis. lyrebird's algorithms analyse several hours of quality recordings to digitally recreate a person's speech. i don't think there are many companies before have done something that allow people to copy their voice off a small amount of audio. speech synthesis is an old research subject and it has been going on for more than 30 years. but what we provide is for people to really do it in their home and you can go to our website, record yourself for a few minutes, and after that you will get a voice. the hope is to extend the scope of project revoice more people internationally, to allow more people with mnd and als to recapture and recreate their own voice. last week, you'll remember this robot, which followed me around collecting my tennis balls as i prepared for wimbledon. sadly, i didn't quite make the draw. but it turns outjen copestake did. yes, it's a beautiful day here at wimbledon. we're checking out all the technology behind the tennis tradition. artificial

he says i love so black man is a critical voice of a cast of young voices who now traditional clips of expressions and current global music trends with a global caribbean acetic further as a female she's in a lane of her own. so it's a weighty thing but do you see yourself as that young boys who is mixing those two things where no one else's i definitely think so because i think that the problem with the youth it's a problem but it's actually not a problem at the same time is that we are looking for examples and the examples that we have. it's not necessarily we don't know how to recreate it we don't know how to make a brand new again we don't know how to make it trendy like what is happening now and it's like we hear the same thing over and over i was just tired of that i love so community and i'm just like why can't i hear something different why why does it sound like the same all song again you know still i felt the need to do that and i think that now that's inspiring more young people to have their voice and understand that my voice doesn't need to be just like the voices befo

says i love so black man is a critical voice of a cast of young voices who now traditional clips of expressions and current global music trends with a global caribbean acetic further as a female she's in a lane of her own. so it's a weighty thing but do you see yourself as that young boys who is mixing those two things where no one else's i definitely think so because i think that the problem with the youth it's a problem but it's actually not a problem at the same time is that we are looking for examples and the examples that we have. it's not necessarily we don't know how to recreate it we don't know how to make a brand new again we don't know how to make it trendy like what is happening now and it's like we hear the same thing over and over and over i was just tired of that i love so community and i'm just like why can't i hear something different why why does it sound like the same all song again you know so i felt the need to do that and i think that now that's inspiring more young people to have their voice and understand that my voice doesn't need to be just like the voices before it can

s voice. perhaps it's the shock factor of using the trial's voice.e. —— using the child's voice. do you think adults listen on two children? no, they should listen more to children because sometimes children are right —— do you think adults listened enough to children? a reminder of our top story: the new york times says prosecutors have seized a recording of conversations between donald trump and his former lawyer, michael cohen, in which they discuss a payment to a former playboy model in the run—up to the 2016 presidential election. if you want to get in touch with me, you can. i'm @alpapatel. that's it, bye for now. hello. some areas have been lucky enough to see some rain today, others just had the cloud and hardly anything fell from it. a bit of a range of weather across the uk but yes, some useful rain in places gone for the weekend as it becomes dry once again as we see this finger of high pressure pushing back in across the uk behind that rain bearing weather system as it clears. for early risers saturday morning, a lot of cloud around, for

voice.t should be able to recognize an african-american voice. it should be able to recognize a hispanic voice, an asian voice. they see society differently , because of where they grew up, and the experiences they have of people in their own networks. so, they will help us design those products to make sure they are ones that represent all of us and that are not biased. that work for everybody, not just a segment of the population. ♪ melinda: what i am seeing with the #metoo movement is we are still at the point of reckoning. there is still more to come out. ♪ emily: you founded pivotal ventures in 2015. when you started pivotal ventures, what is the mission that you set out to achieve? melinda: it was really to figure out what are the issues that american women face where there are still barriers, and how could we go about knocking some of those down? so i am not finished saying yet the places that we are going to make investments. there are places where i feel there are some societal need

." >> you have a white voice in there, you can use it.ng pulled over by the police. >> oh, no, i just use my regular voice when that happens, i just say back the ( bleep ) up off the car and nobody gets hurt. >> i'm trying to give you game. you want to make money? talk with the white boys. >> people say i do anyway. why are you helping me out? >> i'm not talking about will smith white. i'm talking about the real deal like this young boy. >> this is langston from rega regalview. i didn't catch you at the wrong time, did i? >> trevor: please welcome boots riley! ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> trevor: can i just say, i watched this movie, and there are few films that have left me -- like i remember, genuinely, the matrix was the last movie that had me leaving a cinema not knowing what i thought about the world. this film has been phenomenal. word of mouth is blowing it up everywhere. did you expect this when you directed and wrote it? >> of course, you know, i have big dreams, so i hoped f

everything people said at the podium you would have a voice to say that and an authorized voice to say that. i think that's been missing. also a point about organized labor. i think that every part from the people trimming the plants to the people selling the product or delivering, that can be organized union workforce. you are right it is not a billion dollar industry here. we want to grow this industry and make it robust. a commission would lend accountability and transparency, but be really a body that has a first hand knowledge about the industry and because there is equity applicantcy on the commission, how hard it is to start a business like this in fran and how legislatures could make it easier. today i am bringing forward some simple amendments and they are to add a labor seat on this for the seat that was for a low income person and to add workforce instead of just workforce and economic development to page two, line eight. >> supervisor safai: god it. got it. can we make a motion to accept those amendments. motion moved. we will accept those a proposed. >> i didn't catch who

you've got to dot voices. >> jimmy: they like the voices? >> it's all about the voices.ng with jake. he's 23 now. and i'm like dude, i'm reading grin chrks they love it just like you did. and he's like show me, show me. and he stuck for the whole story. he was like -- 23 years old and so into it. and he wanted to do the cindy lou who part. rocco does cindy lou who now. so rocco gets to do -- >> jimmy: you're going to have off your own kids. >> but dr. seuss, that guy knew what i was doing. he was nto omething. >> jimmy: i think you're right. shel silverstein i'm not sure about. because that book "the giving free" have you read that one? >> it's the best. >> jimmy: i think it's the worst. >> what do you mean? the guy wants money, right? >> jimmy: this kid abuses this tree. >> i know. >> jimmy: he eats all the apples. he chops it down. he sits on the stump. eventually he just drops dead on the thing. it's a terrible story. it's a story that should not be read to children. read it again and think about me when you do. >> i love it. i love it when -- i love it when he's jus

remember, you have a strong voice. all of you have a strong voice. it. if you use these strong. >> hello. i am the president of the alliance for justice. here, we are truly united. voice abouth one the critical importance of our rights and freedoms. tonight, we heard president trump nominate brett kavanaugh. we oppose bread kavanaugh on the d.c. circuit and now 286 opinions later, we are opposing his nomination to the supreme court. tonight can be one of two things. it can be the night that sets in motion a hard right turn for our country that may be irreversible. night of be the first a successful movement to push back against the forces that want to strip away health care, women's reproductive rights, and so many other hard-fought wins. i believe tonight this is the first night of a successful campaign. it's the first night of the successful effort to stop this nominee from joining the supreme court. knowany people in america how high the stakes are for the country. -- i thinkryone here everyone here. thank you for coming. we stand united. >> hello. ho

[cheers and applause] our voices, our voices, our stories are what will make the difference in this nomination. we could do everything we can to fight back, to speak out, to never give up, to never give in. it's about our values. it's about our country. it's about the history of this nation. and we will fight. we will not give up. we will not grow weary. we will not give in. tell your story. tell everyone you know and love why you care so much. whether it's union rights or immigrant rights or muslim rights, fighting against this president's coercive and very harmful agenda to so many americans, tell your story. be heard. do not give up. we must convince the senate to do the right thing and stand against kavanaugh. stand against kavanaugh. stand against kavanaugh. stand against kavanaugh. stand against kavanaugh. stand against kavanaugh! stand against kavanaugh! stand against kavanaugh! stand against kavanaugh! our next speaker is senator jeff merkley. [cheers and applause] senator merkley: good evening, everybody. let's talk about the issue of justice. let's talk about the future of the united

voice.t should be able to recognize an african-american voice. it should be able to recognize a hispanic voice, an asian voice. they see society differently, because of where they grew up, and the experiences they have of people in their own networks. so, they will help us design those products to make sure they are ones that represent all of us and that are not biased. that work for everybody, not just a segment of the population. ♪ melinda: what i am seeing with the #metoo movement is we are still at the point of reckoning. there is still more to come out. ♪ emily: you founded pivotal ventures in 2015. when you started pivotal ventures, what is the mission that you set out to achieve? melinda: it was really to figure out what are the issues that american women face where there are still barriers, and how could we go about knocking some of those down? so i am not finished saying yet the places that we are going to make investments. there are places where i feel there are some societal needs