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In a post today in the Kindle Direct Publishing community forum, the self-publishing giant announced that it has begun a beta test on technology allowing KDP authors to produce audiobook versions of their e-books using virtual voice narration. The ability to create an audiobook using synthetic speech technology is likely to result in a boom in the number of audiobooks produced by KDP authors. According to an Amazon spokesperson, currently only 4% of titles self-published through KDP have an audiobook available.
Loe edasi: Kindle Direct Publishing Will Beta Test Virtual Voice–Narrated Audiobooks
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A strange phenomenon has transformed the world scientific system. Suddenly, academic journals that were previously weekly or biweekly have started publishing several special issues each day. There are unusual cases, such as the hyperprolific environmental and health research journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), which last year published 17,000 scientific studies, 13 times more than in 2016, according to engineer Pablo Gómez Barreiro’s calculations. The theoretically biweekly journal has reached an output speed of six special issues per day and in recent years has been the preferred journal of Spanish scientists seeking to publish their work.
Loe edasi: Public funds being swallowed up by scientific journals with dubious articles
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As mainstream social media becomes fragmented, focused on ‘pay to play’ models and subject to disinformation campaigns, their original promise of a utopian new public sphere can feel far from reality. Was this inevitable, or are there ways in which digital media can be more diverse and community focused? Funded by the European Commission, the WeNet study keeps the flag flying for a more sociable form of digital connection.
Loe edasi: Using AI for social benefit – WeNet and community focused social media
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By invitation, SPARC Europe recently attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access. Participants reflected on the current diamond OA publishing system and how to develop and sustain a solid scholar-led not-for-profit diamond OA publishing ecosystem. The event created a very fertile ground for discussion by bringing people from across the world, from 75 countries and over 450 organisations speaking in four languages.
Loe edasi: The seed of a global federation for Diamond Open Access has been planted
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Debate over the use of artificial intelligence, already touching everything from admissions to grading, has reached peer reviewing, as academics balance technological uncertainty and ethical concerns with potential solutions for persistent peer-review problems.
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Although theories abound, there is still no clear explanation for how infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to lingering difficulty concentrating, problems with attention and memory, and other, often-debilitating symptoms associated with Long Covid.
Loe edasi: Low serotonin levels might explain some Long Covid symptoms, study proposes
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The University of Tartu (TÜ) announced nearly 100 recipients of several honorary decorations on Friday, among them TÜ professor and MP Margit Sutrop (Reform), TÜ professor and Estonian Academy of Sciences (ETA) member Jaak Vilo and TÜ associate professor and former vice rector for research Kristjan Vassil.
Loe edasi: University of Tartu announces recipients of nearly 100 awards, decorations
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Keep working on it. That’s the reaction of U.S. science watchdog groups to the first attempts by federal health agencies to flesh out a promise by President Joe Biden to restore trust in government by ensuring that government scientists are free to do their jobs without political meddling.
Loe edasi: First detailed U.S. scientific integrity draft policies get mixed responses
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A web of steel girders is rising from the flattened summit of Cerro Armazones, 3000 meters above sea level in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The dome it will support will be vast—with a footprint as big as a soccer field and almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty— and unexpectedly nimble: It will smoothly rotate on rails as a giant telescope inside tracks stars through the night.
Loe edasi: A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue