Weather Bot by Knight Lab/El Vocero de Puerto Rico

Media United States of America JournalismAI

Weather Bot is an automation tool designed to gather data from the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, identifying relevant weather alerts and generating reports. This AI-driven application aims to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of weather reporting, ensuring that critical alerts are delivered promptly to the community. By continuously monitoring data feeds, the bot can detect weather events and produce comprehensive reports that highlight essential details. Additionally, it streamlines the process by translating reports between languages, making information accessible to a wider audience. The generated reports are then published to a content management system and notifications are sent to relevant parties for further dissemination.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Production

Whisper Large v3 Turbo WebGPU

Media United States of America Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators

The Whisper Large v3 Turbo WebGPU tool converts speech to text quickly and efficiently, making it ideal for note-taking, video captions, and accessibility. It supports 100 languages and runs directly in the browser, using the device’s GPU for faster transcription without uploading data to a server. This ensures full privacy, as everything runs locally with no API calls or external dependencies. The tool is fully open-source.

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Whisper Speaker Diarization

Media United States of America Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators

The Whisper Speaker Diarization tool transcribes audio and identifies different speakers, making it useful for meetings, interviews, and podcasts. It supports 100 languages and provides word-level timestamps, helping users follow conversations more easily. Everything runs locally in the browser, using Whisper-base for transcription and pyannote-segmentation for speaker separation, with no API calls or internet connection required after loading. The tool is completely open-source.

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WriteHuman

Media United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Journalists Toolbox

WriteHuman is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance and humanize AI-generated text, making it indistinguishable from human-written content. Its primary features include refining sentence structure, adding idiomatic expressions, and adjusting content to sound more natural and engaging. The tool is particularly useful for bypassing AI detection systems, ensuring that content generated by AI is not flagged as machine-written by platforms like GPTZero, Turnitin, or Crossplag. In addition to creating undetectable AI content, WriteHuman offers privacy features to eliminate AI tracking and preserve the authenticity of your work. It supports diverse use cases, including blogging, SEO-optimized writing, and professional content creation, while allowing users to maintain their unique voice and style.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Production

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