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Busy Philipps stopped by Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday to promote Mean Girls and the conversation briefly turned to … Britney Spears. A fan asked via video, “What was your reaction when your bestie Michelle Williams told you she would be the narrator for Britney Spears’ memoir, and were you surprised at how viral her performance was?” Phillipps started off by saying she’s been asked this on the red carpet and has turned the conversations back to Mean Girls, but she’d indulge this time…

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.Captions makes it easy to share compelling narrated videos. The app adds attractive, eye-catching captions to videos you record or import. It has a helpful teleprompter, an AI script-writing assistant, and a suite of AI editing features. Its most impressive feature: AI dubbing that can automatically transform your voice into any of 27 languages. Read on for a summary of its…

Sixty years after her death, Édith Piaf’s voice will be re-created using AI to narrate her biopic.As reported by Variety, Warner Music Group (WMG) has partnered with the Piaf estate to produce the feature-length film Edith. Artificial intelligence has been trained to replicate Piaf’s voice by feeding it hundreds of voice clips, with WMG promising the resultant re-creation will “further enhance the authenticity and emotional impact of her story”.Animation will be used to provide “a modern take” on the La Vie en Rose…

It is the season for harvesting Bell pepper in Northern Nigeria and farmers have already commenced the process of bagging, trading and sun-drying the farm produce. In Kano, farmers who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES complained about the spike in the prices of inputs (seeds, fertilisers and pesticides ) and the invasion of pests on their crop. Although the farmers said they have more output this year compared to last year due to training and support they received from a farmer-centred association called Sasakawa based in…

Apple has just launched a brand new feature for its Books app that will let you listen to written titles as audiobooks, narrated by artificial intelligence. The feature, delayed from November last year, lets users choose books that feature AI narration, and features a swathe of new books that are "narrated by digital voice based on a human narrator."As noted by The Guardian (opens in new tab), the new initiative "marks an attempt to upend the lucrative and fast-growing audiobook market."Not convinced?The Guardian reports…

The Voicemod app now includes voices for rough approximations of Morgan Freeman, HAL-9000, and more.Screenshot: VoicemodI wanted to see how alike I could be to HAL-9000 in my own, ragged rendition of the song Daisy Bell. It turns out, I actually sound better as the vague approximation of the demented artificial intelligence from 2001: A Space Odyssey than either HAL’s actor Douglas Rain or my normal, human voice.The Spain-based company Voicemod revealed its new beta AI Voices product Wednesday that promotes it uses AI to…