Jeff Selingo is a New York Times bestselling author, producer of the higher ed newsletter Next and co-host of the podcast “Future U.” Here is his latest rave on an EdTech innovation:
Even as universities field complaints about artificial intelligence-themed commencement speeches, some are deploying AI to handle one of graduation’s most personal moments: announcing graduate names. The University of Florida uses Tassel, an AI-assisted platform that generates name pronunciations for the roughly 9,000 students participating in commencement ceremonies this spring. Students receive a prompt to listen to an AI-generated version of their name, make corrections and confirm the final result before a voice actor records it.
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