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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

VC Cafe

But substantial investments are also being deployed into emerging startups, particularly into vertical applications. You really, really should not trust audio clips anymore Even a couple months ago, it used to take a commercial service to clone a voice. Vertical Applications Taking Off. billion (largest VC round in history).

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The Anti zoom

VC Cafe

Their examples include Designers giving feedback and comment on digital assets or product specialists demoing products and creating audio or text highlights. Vertically-focused startups design products to better meet the needs of particular user segments. Here’s his full list of Verticalization of Zoom ).

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Education Multimodal ability – apps that allow users to “input” questions, topics, or ideas in all forms (audio, image, text, and even video) and get a response in the media type that helps them learn best. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video. It’s time to build!

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The shape of the future

Start Up Blog

A few years earlier, they would have been in the exact same setting, doing audio recordings. Early TV was essentially still an audio programme with pictures. What will kitchens look like when automated vertical gardens in offices and houses are common? A couple of people. With a camera.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. At any given point in time, which is the right solution?

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Getting The Website Information Architecture Right: How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences

ConversionXL

audio-video equipment or apparel). If you’re an audio-video ecommerce site, you might write down things like ‘digital SLRs’, ‘Canon lenses’, ‘DVD players’ etc. Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? If you do use vertical menus, make sure they’re aligned left.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.