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jbz
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Opera Wants You To Pay $20 a Month For Its AI Browser
#opera #ai #aislop
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/11/1430237/opera-wants-you-to-pay-20-a-month-for-its-ai-browser
Opera Wants You To Pay $20 a Month For Its AI Browser
#opera #ai #aislop
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/11/1430237/opera-wants-you-to-pay-20-a-month-for-its-ai-browser
Sylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀
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Sooooo... thinking about the possibility and feasibility of big life changes, namely studying opera seriously in Europe. Would love to connect with other #Blind language learners, especially those using #braille as a component of their learning. Currently learning #French. Am particularly interested in chatting with people who have taught themselves grade 2 French Braille as well as those who are either conversational or fluent and/or who have worked in or currently live in a #Francophone European country. If this is you or you're in any way adjacent to this world, please reach out. Would love to talk to you. Would also love to chat with people who use #MusicBraille / #BrailleMusic in Europe.
#Francophonie #ClassicalMusic #Opera #LanguageLearning #Languages #Français #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind
PS: if I missed any hashtags or groups, please let me know and I'll add them.
Sooooo... thinking about the possibility and feasibility of big life changes, namely studying opera seriously in Europe. Would love to connect with other #Blind language learners, especially those using #braille as a component of their learning. Currently learning #French. Am particularly interested in chatting with people who have taught themselves grade 2 French Braille as well as those who are either conversational or fluent and/or who have worked in or currently live in a #Francophone European country. If this is you or you're in any way adjacent to this world, please reach out. Would love to talk to you. Would also love to chat with people who use #MusicBraille / #BrailleMusic in Europe.
#Francophonie #ClassicalMusic #Opera #LanguageLearning #Languages #Français #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind
PS: if I missed any hashtags or groups, please let me know and I'll add them.
heise online
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heise+ | Opera Neon ausprobiert – was kann der agentische Browser?
Opera Neon soll dem Nutzer beim Surfen mit reichlich KI unter die Arme greifen. Doch wie gut funktioniert der agentische Browser?
heise+ | Opera Neon ausprobiert – was kann der agentische Browser?
Opera Neon soll dem Nutzer beim Surfen mit reichlich KI unter die Arme greifen. Doch wie gut funktioniert der agentische Browser?
Luc, artiste en devenir
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Niche, mais on est sur Mastodon après tout:
si vous avez connaissance de documents utiles pour la formation linguistique de musicien-nes et chanteurses d'opéra (carrière, contrats, instructions pendant des auditions ou répétitions...), je serais intéressée par vos recommandations!
Niche, mais on est sur Mastodon après tout:
si vous avez connaissance de documents utiles pour la formation linguistique de musicien-nes et chanteurses d'opéra (carrière, contrats, instructions pendant des auditions ou répétitions...), je serais intéressée par vos recommandations!
An opera exploring the life of Japanese ukiyo-e traditional woodblock print artist Katsushika Hokusai will premiere in Scotland next February. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/04/entertainment-news/opera-hokusai-scotland/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #entertainmentnews #scotland #hokusai #opera
*I'm saying we, since I would need to work with an expert. I am not only totally blind (who knows if this would be accessible), but I know nothing about this sort of thing.*
To make a very long story short, I am aware that there is severe frequency loss in acoustic recordings. That is why they sound so tinny, even when compared to the earliest electrics. Some voices are affected more than others, but even the ones with the best recordings still experience some of it. With the advances in technology at our disposal in 2025, however, I am wondering if it would be possible to attempt to restore some of those frequencies. Ideally, it might sound like something from the 1940's, but I doubt that is possible, at least with the earlier records, so at least the 1920's or 1930's would be great.
The thing is, I don't know exactly what is lost. So my idea is to record a modern singer (with at least a somewhat similar voice to the original) on period equipment and digitally symultaneously. In this way, we would have the live singer, plus two very different recordings. We could then compare the live, electric, and acoustic versions with a device or software that measures frequencies. Once we have determined what is lost, we could then try to restore the actual records in question.
If we were doing this with a cylinder machine, it would be very easy. Not only can one literally still record at the Edison Museum, but there are people today who record in wax with both real machines and reproductions, including commercially! However, the first singer whom I have in mind for this, Francesco Tamagno, recorded on disks, which complicates everything. I was very familiar with cylinder recording prior to designing this project, though I had never done it myself, but I knew absolutely nothing about 78s. Then, I learned.
https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/making-gramophone-records
As I was saying, it is beyond complicated! Even if we took a chance and recorded the wax master and then used it for playback, skipping the step of actually making a shellac record, there is still the issue of finding recording equipment from Tamagno's time, which is ridiculously rare and doubtlessly too expensive for most people to consider buying. You might ask why we couldn't just use a cylinder machine, since they were certainly around in 1903. The problem is that their frequency loss was different from shellac records, so it would ruin the experiment if the difference was significant. Is it? Can anyone tell me? Do we even need to make a modern recording, or is technology good enough that we can simply add in the frequences from previous knowledge? If this can be perfected, or at least made feasible, there are hundreds of singers whose voices can finally be let out of the can, at least a little, and made to sound more life-like! Many of these didn't live to see electric recordings. I'm sure everyone would jump on this if I said Enrico Caruso was on the list, for example. But he, too, recorded on disks. I wonder if we can skip the recording experiment and use a singer, such as Tito Schipa (my personal favourite), whose recordings span both the acoustic and electric eras, from 1913 to 1964, as a control and gauge the frequency loss that way. If we wanted someone who recorded earlier, we could try someone like Alessandro Bonci or Mattia Battistini, but both only made it to the 1920's.
#78s #acoustic #cylinders #electric #music #opera #production #project #recording #records #restoration #science #SoundRestoration #technology
Samsung bringt seinen Internet-Browser auf Windows-PCs
Samsung bringt seinen mobilen Internet-Browser zunächst als Beta auf Windows-PCs. Im Fokus stehen etwa KI und geräteübergreifende Funktionen.
#Browser #Datenschutz #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mobiles #OpenAI #Opera #Samsung #Smartphone #Windows #news
Børge
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A couple of events involving me that are coming up soon this month if you're in the #Oslo / Lillestrøm area:
On Saturday 6 September (that's this weekend) at 19:00 I'll be taking part in a small stage production of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni along with a bunch of other amateur soloists, with piano accompaniment. If you want to witness my terrific/terrible acting skills and tolerable singing voice, you can choose to do so by attending!
On Saturday 13 September (that's next weekend) I'll be taking part in a full stage production of Verdi's opera adaptation of Macbeth. This will be a full opera choir + orchestra event (and I also have some solo parts in this).
Both of these events will be in Lillestrøm Kultursenter. See https://www.skalaoperakor.no/#Konserter for details if you are interested.
A couple of events involving me that are coming up soon this month if you're in the #Oslo / Lillestrøm area:
On Saturday 6 September (that's this weekend) at 19:00 I'll be taking part in a small stage production of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni along with a bunch of other amateur soloists, with piano accompaniment. If you want to witness my terrific/terrible acting skills and tolerable singing voice, you can choose to do so by attending!
On Saturday 13 September (that's next weekend) I'll be taking part in a full stage production of Verdi's opera adaptation of Macbeth. This will be a full opera choir + orchestra event (and I also have some solo parts in this).
Both of these events will be in Lillestrøm Kultursenter. See https://www.skalaoperakor.no/#Konserter for details if you are interested.
