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== March 25th, 2019 ==
* '''Breathing While Speaking''' -- Last week we highlighted recent work our Machine Learning Group has done to integrate a new realistic-sounding human-like voice in our text-to-speech engine, which hopefully you had a chance to listen to. This week we can share a further update on the quality of our speech synthesis, adding the ability to emulate when humans breathe while talking. Listen [https://soundcloud.com/kelly-jay-davis/it-took-me-quite-a-long-time-to-develop-a-voice-and-now-that-i-have-it-im-not-going-to-be-silent here] after the word “voice” and see what you think.
* '''Assembly Using Gloo''' -- Rust and WebAssembly continue to come together, in part because they can be combined to build small components that can be woven into a much larger JavaScript application as well as creating whole new web applications using Rust and WebAssembly from the ground up. The Rust/Wasm Working Group [https://rustwasm.github.io/2019/03/12/lets-build-gloo-together.html announced] a new initiative to build Gloo, a modular toolkit that can support that wide range of creative approaches, all by selecting just the right subset of libraries that suit your needs. This is a key component of the working group’s 2019 roadmap, and they’d welcome contributions especially at this early stage.
* '''Horizon 2020 Grant''' - The Machine Learning Group, in partnership with 4 European universities (Edinburgh, Sheffield, Charles, and Tartu), secured a 3 million Euro grant from the EU to produce an open neural machine translation engine to translate between all 24 of the official EU languages. This grant, [https://browser.mt/ Project Bergamot], also funds extending Firefox with this engine. In addition, the translation engine will run on-device, enhancing users’ privacy and security, as their sensitive documents need not be sent to a server that’s out of their control.
== March 18th, 2019 ==
