This startup uses AI to automatically create videos out of articles

Publishers are continuously looking for new ways to expand their reach. One sure bet? Video.

Even Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recognizes this. Discussing the company’s performance last year, he told media how video remains central on the News Feed of its users. “We’re entering into a period where that’s increasingly going to be video — and we’re seeing huge growth there,” he was quoted by Wired as saying.

Yet not all publishers have the ability to produce video content. Taiwan-based GliaCloud wants to offer them help.

GliaCloud’s product, GliaStudio, uses artificial intelligence to automatically create video summaries of text articles. What it does is analyze and summarize a text story and generate a video out of the data — complete with voiceover as well as photos and video clips from its content partners and public sources. Read more...