12/19/2023 0 Comments Bard books on tape![]() The most impressive sequence concerned the obsequies of Afro-Caribbean Christians, singing joyful hymns as they all filled in the grave. In Stacey Dooley: Inside the undertakers (BBC1, Thursday of last week), the presenter experienced (briefly) the actualities of funerals, corpses, and embalming. Yet, better explication is needed for our extraordinary system: ultimate authority held by a hereditary monarch, supported by medieval splendours of pomp and circumstance, reading a formal speech whose legislative programme will, the moment the pageantry ends, be scrapped over in a bear-pit of elected politicians who wield the decision-making power. The BBC is desperate to prove its descent from Olympian heights: now, we’re all just ordinary people, and no one claims to know more than anyone else. Today’s mantle fell on Nicky Campbell, who took this process of democratisation rather too far. In the classic televising of state occasions, the commentator was an expert, and other voices were quite superfluous. It followed the currently established pattern of a presenter’s commenting on the unfolding event while discussing its details and implications with a group of experts. The realities of power and authority are rightly celebrated as among Shakespeare’s vital themes: he would have recognised many of the gorgeous accoutrements displayed in the coverage of the The State Opening Of Parliament (BBC1, Tuesday of last week). It contained some really good things, but they needed to be sifted out from plenty of 21st-century guff. Patrons with a refreshable braille display can download and read books in braille. ![]() By registering for BARD, patrons using a digital machine can download digital books from the Internet to their computer or IOS device. The view that the programme took of the creative artist was Romantic and Freudian, ignoring the much older reality of the journeyman creator whose work could have a quite startling (to us) separation from the tragedies of his immediate personal life. BARD - Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD stands for the National Library Services Braille and Audio Reading Download. ![]() They cooked up an indigestible banquet of speculation and must-have-feltery, which mostly imposed the emotional reactions of our own times on a world quite different from ours. Surely, all these assumptions were highly questionable. It claimed that we knew very little of the man’s biography, that he was poorly educated, and that the plays provided immediate keys to his life story and responses to the political and social upheavals of the day. This programme was a lavish affair, with dramatic reconstructions of life in Tudor/Stuart England a stunning array of leading thespians, jostling with academics and scholars to share their insights and a range of clips from famous stage, cinema, and TV productions. With the expanded Google partnership, Spotify is also exploring the use of LLMs to provide a safer listening experience and identify potentially harmful content.IF THE English are still People of the Book, then, in terms of international influence, that volume is probably no longer the Bible, but Shakespeare’s First Folio: the unique source of many of his best-loved plays, which inspire and speak directly to every culture in the world.īBC2 is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its publication with the three-part series Shakespeare: Rise of a genius, which began last week (Wednesday). "The evolution of our technology has been matched by Google Cloud's commitment to building the best possible platform for our products to run on and driving further innovation with the emerging capabilities of generative AI," said Gustav Söderström, Spotify's chief product and technology officer. It had previously promised high-margin returns from its costly expansion into podcasts and audiobooks. The music streaming giant has been looking to boost its earnings by increasing its slate of revenue-generating formats such as podcasts and audiobooks. The Swedish company is now aiming to use LLMs to replicate that across its non-music content such as podcasts and audiobooks. ![]() Spotify has been an early adopter of AI, which it used for music recommendation algorithms a decade earlier. Google Cloud, owned by Alphabet, has several LLMs such as PaLM 2, Codey, Imagen and Chirp that are trained on text, codes, images, audio and video. STOCKHOLM - Spotify, on Thursday (Nov 16), expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to use large language models (LLMs) to help identify a user's listening patterns across podcasts and audiobooks in order to suggest tailor-made recommendations.Īrtificial intelligence-powered LLMs such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard, are trained on a massive amount of data to generate text and other content. ![]()
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