Using AI to fake your own voice, podcasting never been easier

<p>Mason began his career as a developer, went on to be a CEO, but also found time to produce <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/01/andrew-mason-raises-your-hands-up-in-the-air/#:~:text=If%20you're%20a%20tech,how%20to%20run%20your%20startup.">80s alt rock album</a> full of advice on how to run your startup.</p><p>Slack began life as a video game company, eventually pivoting to make an internal chat tool it had built into its main business. Descript had a similar journey, taking  the editing software Mason and his team developed at Detour, and moving it to become the center of a new business after <a href="https://medium.com/detour-dot-com/detour-the-next-chapter-6f1aa2d97a14">Detour was acquired by Bose</a>.</p><p>Headquartered in Montreal, <a href="https://www.descript.com/lyrebird">Lyrebird</a> is the AI division of Descript . It was founded by PhD students studying under Yoshua Bengio, who won the Turing Prize in 2019 for his pioneering research into deep learning and neural networks.</p><p>Our lifeboat badge of the week goes Avinash, who explained what to do with a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51259814/invalid-syntax-error-on-running-aws-command/51298492#51298492">invalid syntax error that arises while running an AWS command</a></p>