FT Labs is an emerging web technologies team at the Financial Times. Collaborate with us at http://t.co/9v98HyIW.
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In an emotionally traumatic conclusion to the long-running "Experimental Amy" FTLabs Project (automated narration of FT articles), we captured the following audio output as the final few systems were switched off...
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Our best ever graph, resulting from a foray into the heady world of myFT follows/unfollows: labs.ft.com/research/2020/02…
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An assortment of User Research roles have opened up as the Product Team tools up for some serious Product Discovery-driven productivity in 2020.
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JanetBot got a mention in this @mediamasters_fm interview with @khalafroula (Deputy Editor of @FT), as part of the wider initiative to address the under-representation of women in its pages.
For a look behind the scenes of JanetBot, read labs.ft.com/product/2018/11/…
For more context: a @NiemanLab interview with @rkapkap (Head of Audience Engagement of @FT)
“If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man.” Here’s how the paper is trying to change that.
niemanlab.org/2018/04/if-the…
FT Labs retweeted
FT Hackathon 2019 Stats:
192 days notice to book room
60 participants
27.5 hrs hacking
17 teams
15 tables
7 prize trophies
5 in largest team
4 mins per team presentation
3.5 avg team size
3 judges
2 audible "Oh god, no", or equivalent, from the judges
1 winner (all of us :-)
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What happened when @lucykellaway discovered our automated voice Experimental Amy narrating her articles? The @FTLabs team give us the low down medium.com/ft-product-techno…
Looking back on the start of our investigations into artificial voices.
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Introducing MetaCrowd, 'a commenting system specifically focused on translated content', the @FT (et al) team's entry in the recent @bbc_connected/@BBC_News_Labs #newshack.
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Four fine folk from from three different @FT teams have combined to tackle the 'Tools for multilingual newsrooms' #newshack organised by @bbc_connected & @BBC_News_Labs:
@lily_2point0, @jamiebrownco, @joannaskao, @MHA_076
(eventbrite.co.uk/e/newshack-…)
The 'Tools for multilingual newsrooms' #newshack, June 11-12, 2019, organised by @bbc_connected & @BBC_News_Labs, was a very enjoyable event, with some awesome catering at the Tanner Warehouse in Bermondsey, London.
Can they beat last year's Comments-via-Voice-Device-with-added-Swear-Jar?
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FT Conversation: a project from a recent @BBC_News_Labs #newsHack, to enable users to dictate their comments on articles, with added swear jar. labs.ft.com/hackathon/2018/0…
The additional option on the Experiments page, 'Audio Player', is specifically for podcast audio, and lets you keep playing the podcast while continuing to navigate round other parts of the app. The intention is to hook up this feature to the Experimental Amy player as well.