ElevenLabs has added new "iconic voices feature", featuring voices from celebrities such as Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier to their newly launched Reader App, made possible through partnerships with the estates of these artists.

The Reader App, launched last week, converts digital texts like articles, PDFs, ePubs, newsletters, and e-books into emotionally rich, context-aware voiceovers using AI technology. These iconic voices are exclusively available for individual streaming within the app, allowing fans to experience works like L. Frank Baum’s "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" voiced by Judy Garland or Sherlock Holmes narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier.

ElevenLabs aims to enhance content accessibility and enrich user experience, with plans to introduce more renowned voices in the future, ensuring the legacies of these stars continue to attract and excite fans through innovative technology.

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Zed Editor, the modern open-source code editor built in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer, has officially launched a stable build of Zed on Linux, making use of the Vulkan API for GPU acceleration. To install Zed on most Linux distributions, users can run the provided shell script: curl https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh

The company has also announced the launch of its new version 0.143, which introduces improved keyboard shortcuts, including new Linux-specific compatibility modes for Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, Atom, and Sublime Text, along with new default fonts, Zed Plex Sans and Zed Plex Mono, based on the IBM Plex family. Performance enhancements include better handling of massive undo histories and significantly faster replace all operations, up to 20 times faster in some cases.

Vim mode improvements feature new support for macros (q and @) to record and replay, new Vim bindings for the outline panel, and several fixes including undo after repeated insert/replace mode, r repeating too much, : in empty diagnostics view, and g/ outside of an editor. Users can download the latest stable release and Linux version from here.

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ElevenLabs has introduced its new Voiceover Studio, allowing users to create video voiceovers and podcasts with multiple speakers and sound effects in one workflow. Users can upload a video, add dialogue and sound effects, and fine-tune the timing to perfection. The Voiceover Studio beta is now available to everyone.

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Runway has introduced Gen-3 Alpha, its latest AI video model capable of producing hyper-realistic 10-second clips. This model represents a significant advancement over its predecessor, Gen-2, designed to deliver high-fidelity and controllable video outputs, enhance AI video generation technology.

The Gen-3 Alpha model is the first to be trained on a new infrastructure tailored for large-scale multimodal training, which improves the fidelity, consistency, and motion of the generated videos. It allows users to customize videos for specific styles and consistent characters, excelling in generating expressive human characters with a wide range of actions and emotions. This new model directly competes with other highly talked-about alternatives from last week, such as the new Dream Machine from Luma AI.

The new model will be integrated into various Runway tools such as text-to-video, image-to-video, text-to-image, Motion Brush, Advanced Camera Controls, and Director Mode. Developed using curated datasets by Runway’s research team, the model includes new safeguards adhering to Content Credentials (C2PA) provenance standards. The model will be available to Runway subscribers, Creative Partners Program members, and Enterprise users this week.

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