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Bango: subscription providers are reducing their reliance on direct acquisition strategies like social media ads due to rising costs and diminishing returns (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider)
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertisin…

Bango: Subscription providers turn to bundling as direct acquisition marketing falters
Marketers of subscription services including those themed around streaming video and music are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advert | A new Bango study concludes that subscription service providers are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advertising, for customer growth and are turning to indirect marketing mechanisms like bundling.

Robust Target Speaker Diarization and Separation via Augmented Speaker Embedding Sampling
Md Asif Jalal, Luca Remaggi, Vasileios Moschopoulos, Thanasis Kotsiopoulos, Vandana Rajan, Karthikeyan Saravanan, Anastasis Drosou, Junho Heo, Hyuk Oh, Seokyeong Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06393

Robust Target Speaker Diarization and Separation via Augmented Speaker Embedding Sampling
Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing enrollment-free methods capable of identifying targets without explicit speaker labeling. This work introduces a new approach to train simultaneous speech separation and diarization using automatic identification of target speaker embeddings, within mixtures. Our p…

MEMS speakers enable full-range audio in wearables with ultrasound #xMEMS

Google rolls out a new Gmail feature to manage subscriptions, showing a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by the most frequent senders (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/701282/gmail-manage-email-sub…

Gmail’s new tab is made for unsubscribing from emails
Gmail’s introducing a new Manage subscriptions feature that shows the most frequent senders on one screen so you can easily unsubscribe with a single click.

Wild... I subscribe to a zine, a small but mighty publication from a really talented and generous guy who happens to live in the US. For the past several decades, this has just meant me paying slightly higher postage rates than domestic subscribers - no big deal and totally worth it. Now, though, we've got tariffs. Still, the story might have a happy (temporary) ending: a US subscriber, who'll be here, plans to stop by a Canadian post office and mail all the zines. Yay! But loads of …

Top ten bits of advice for new conference speakers.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/advice-for-new-speakers

Größter Sandspeicher für Fernwärme steht in Finnland
Ein Silo voller Speckstein speichert Wärme, die später in das Fernwärmenetz abgegeben wird. Damit brauchen sechs finnische Kommunen kein Öl mehr.
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Läsvärt debattinlägg av Johan Schaar, som tidigare tjänstgjort vid det svenska generalkonsulatet i Jerusalem. https://www.dn.se/kultur/johan-schaar-freedom-flotilla-har-vind-i-seglen-nar-sverige-sviker/

Johan Schaar: Freedom flotilla har vind i seglen i opinionen
Israel stoppar fartyget Madleen och tvingar Gazabor att löpa gatlopp för mat. Även den svenska regeringen har gjort bistånd till ett politiskt spel, skriver Johan Schaar.

If we just not talk about bad things, they surely don’t exist!
https://thebulletin.org/2025/07/ai-for-good-with-caveats-how-a-keynote-speaker-was-censored-during-an-international-artificial-intelligence-summit/#post-heading

SpeakerLM: End-to-End Versatile Speaker Diarization and Recognition with Multimodal Large Language Models
Han Yin, Yafeng Chen, Chong Deng, Luyao Cheng, Hui Wang, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Xiangang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06372

SpeakerLM: End-to-End Versatile Speaker Diarization and Recognition with Multimodal Large Language Models
The Speaker Diarization and Recognition (SDR) task aims to predict "who spoke when and what" within an audio clip, which is a crucial task in various real-world multi-speaker scenarios such as meeting transcription and dialogue systems. Existing SDR systems typically adopt a cascaded framework, combining multiple modules such as speaker diarization (SD) and automatic speech recognition (ASR). The cascaded systems suffer from several limitations, such as error propagation, difficulty in handling…