October 13, 2023
By: Stephen Toback
As a follow up to my testing of https://labs.heygen.com/video-translate (Steve In Italiano, DDMC) I went back to Eleven Labs which I had tested previously for it's incredible voice cloning ability since Heygen doesn't support Chinese (yet). What I found most...
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February 13, 2023
By: Scott C Frey
Duke University is evaluating the new whiteboard feature offered by Zoom, and already recommending it to faculty members. I received great insight from DLI about the new feature, and the university is optimistic about its potential. The new feature includes...
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January 17, 2023
By: Todd Stabley
Descript, a new video and audio creation and editing tool, has been making waves recently on campus with its ability to generate a script file for your project, and allowing you to edit the video simply by making changes to...
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April 12, 2022
By: Todd Stabley
This April I attended the Northwest Managers of Educational Technology conference held this year in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Since there’s nothing quite like this group in the Southeast, it felt well worth it to me to fly across the country...
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February 10, 2020
By: Richard Mitchell
This past Friday, Cisco visited the Technology Engagement Center on Duke's campus to provide an update on their software and hardware offerings. While much of the conversation revolved around "behind the scenes" updates to the platform and general trends (on-prem...
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October 8, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
Some of Duke's Communications staff have been experimenting lately with Otter.ai, a new transcription service that offers 600 minutes per month, and seem to be enjoying it. Otter, which was started by an ex Google engineer in early 2019, is...
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June 26, 2019
By: Michael Blair
As part of our continuing exploration of new options for transcription and captioning, two members of our media production team tested the automated services offered by both Rev and Sonix. We submitted the same audio and video files to each...
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June 13, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
We recently posted about some exciting new options in the world of captioning spearheaded by a company called Sonix, which offers a page for account set-up for members of the Duke community that waives monthly subscription charges as part of...
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May 14, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
OIT has been following what's happening in the evolving world of captioning over the years, and in particular monitoring the field for high quality, affordable services we think would be useful to members of the Duke community. When Rev.com came...
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February 28, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
We wrote in April of last year about the impact of new AI and machine learning advances in the video world, and specifically around captioning. A little less than a year later, we're starting to see the first packaged services...
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