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Tracing Global Media Tone & Anxiety Towards China & Ukraine 2020-Present

Using the GKG, what might we be able to learn about global media tone towards China and Ukraine? Let's first…

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Visual Explorer: Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian & Iranian Channels Now Upgraded to Google's Chirp Transcription

We are incredibly excited to announce that over the coming 24 hours, all of our Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian & Iranian…

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Visual Explorer: Vastly Improved Russia Today Transcripts Through GCP's Chirp Model

To help researchers and journalists examining Russian propaganda and narratives around the invasion of Ukraine, we are launching vastly improved…

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Visual Explorer: Transcripts Now Available For Iran's PressTV

We are excited to announce today the availability of machine-generated transcripts for Iran's English-language PressTV channel, generated through Google's Chirp…

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Watch: Russia 24's Tucker Carlson Show Release Teaser

Russian television news channel Russia 24 has aired a trailer for a weekend show featuring Tucker Carlson. While details of…

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Stay Tuned: Major New Visual Explorer ASR Announcements Coming Next Week

Stay tuned for some major new announcements next week regarding speech transcription in the Visual Explorer using Google's new Chirp…

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Google Developer Experts' DevFest: Experts Bootcamp

Kalev is back in Silicon Valley today for the Google Developer Experts' DevFest: Experts Bootcamp event at Google.

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WashPost: Kevin McCarthy And His Caucus Contest Valuable Terrain: Attention

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media attention to the GOP caucus. Read The Full Article.

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Iran's PressTV Covers Israeli Societal Unrest

Iran has been devoting airtime to covering societal unrest in Israel over proposed and enacted judicial reforms, portraying itself as…

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Nature: Understanding Urban Flood Resilience In Chinese Sponge Cities Via GDELT GKG Analyses

Media data analytics has become prominent in enhancing urban flood resilience. Most of the media articles were posted during the…

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Transcribing 9.5M Minutes Of Global Television News Through Google's Chirp

The TV News Visual Explorer encompasses selections of television news from 108 channels spanning 50 countries and territories in 35 languages…

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The Perils Of LLMs For Translation Tasks On Lower-Resource Languages: Estonian Noun Declension

One of the great promises of large language models (LLMs) is their ability to revolutionize translation and linguistic tasks. A…

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Google's Chirp & Truly Multilingual Global Speech Transcription: An Example Of Three Languages In 60 Seconds

Google's new Universal Speech Model called Chirp is a large speech model speech transcription system that offers state-of-the-art speech transcription…

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Coming Soon: 6.6M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Our forthcoming Chirp ASR demo has reached 6.6 million minutes (110,000 hours) of global television news!

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Temporal Relationship Between Daily Reports Of COVID-19 Infections And Related GDELT And Tweet Mentions

Social media platforms are valuable data sources in the study of public reactions to events such as natural disasters and…

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The Rich Multilingual World Of Global Television News: New Possibilities For Understanding Codeswitching In News

For those accustomed to the monolingual English-only broadcasts of the United States, it can be nearly impossible to imagine the…

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More Multilingual Transcription With GCP's Chirp: An Arabic-English South Sudan Broadcast

While GCP's new Chirp ASR model does not officially support multilingual audio content, it has proven highly adept at correctly…

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Coming Soon: 2M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Our forthcoming Chirp ASR demo has reached 2 million minutes of global television news!

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Tucker Carlson Still Making Appearances On Russian Television

Despite having left Fox News months ago, Tucker Carlson is still appearing in excerpts on Russian television news, such as…

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A Vision For The Future Of LLM Trust & Safety: From Consumer Toy To Behavioral Enterprise Guardrails

Amongst the myriad challenges involved in deploying LLMs in the enterprise, perhaps the least appreciated is the impact of consumer-centric…

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Coming Soon: 1.1M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Stay tuned for a forthcoming major announcement regarding more than 1.1 million minutes of global television news transcribed through Google's…

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Large-Token LLMs: Using GCP's New 32K PaLM Models To Summarize An Entire ABC Evening News TV News Broadcast In A Single Prompt

This past July we demonstrated the use of Anthropic's Claude 2's 100K token LLM to summarize an entire evening news…

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Large-Token LLMs: Leveraging GCP PaLM 2's 32K Token Limit To Summarize An Entire Episode Of Russia's 60 Minutes – Part 2

Earlier today we examined how GCP's new 32K token models summarize a Russian television news broadcast, finding heavy hallucination and…

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Large-Token LLMs: Leveraging GCP PaLM 2's 32K Token Limit To Summarize An Entire Episode Of Russia's 60 Minutes

This past July we explored how large-token LLMs like Anthropic's Claude 2 can be used to summarize large texts. With…