Microsoft is putting a face — deliberately stylized, tightly guarded, and experiment-first — on Copilot by rolling out a new Copilot Labs feature called Portraits, a real‑time animated portrait system that lip‑syncs, nods, and emotes during voice conversations and is currently available only to...
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D&H’s message to partners is blunt and practical: use Microsoft Copilot as the conversational entry point to sell AI, storage and PCs — and lean on distribution to deliver the infrastructure, security and services that make those Copilot projects real and repeatable. D&H Distributing’s senior...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment turns text into talk — and, in early tests, it sounds more like a collaborator than a canned text‑to‑speech bot. The company has quietly introduced MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑throughput speech generation model surfaced in a new Copilot Labs experience called Audio...
Voice, the most natural form of human interaction, remains one of the most challenging interfaces for computers to understand and master. For decades, the gulf between how we talk and how computers process our commands has shaped the evolution of technology: while we learned the art of keyboard...
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It sounds like science fiction: you type in nearly anything—a dense academic article, a vacation idea, the most recent mind-melting tech conference recap—and, within seconds, you’re greeted not with an essay, but with an upbeat, back-and-forth podcast, staged by two impossibly game virtual...
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