Abstract: A powdered composition useful for the preparation of a biodegradable material, said composition comprising 40 to 95 wt. % of a gypsum containing material that is environmentally acceptable; 0 to 60 wt. % of particles of at least one environmentally acceptable filler; and 3 to 10 wt. % of an environmentally acceptable binding agent. A pourable, water-containing, uncured and biodegradable composition comprising a mixture of a component A and a component B. The component A comprises: 40 to 95 wt. % of a gypsum containing material that is environmentally acceptable; 0 to 60 wt. % of particles of at least one environmentally acceptable filler; and 3 to 10 wt. % of an environmentally acceptable binding agent. The component B comprises water. The weight ratio component A: component B varies from 100:40 to 100:100. Biodegradable articles, methods and uses for preparing the pourable, water-containing, uncured and biodegradable articles (e.g. funeral urn).

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for generating a transcript of a meeting using individual audio recordings of speakers in the meeting. The system obtains an audio recording file from each speaker in the meeting, generates a speaker-specific transcript for each speaker using the audio recording of the corresponding speaker, and merges the speaker-specific transcripts to generate a meeting transcript that includes text of a speech from all speakers in the meeting. As the system generates speaker specific transcripts using speaker-specific (high quality) audio recordings, the need for “diarization” is removed, the audio quality of recording of each speaker is maximized, leading to virtually lossless recordings, and resulting in an improved transcription quality and analysis.

Abstract: A memorial object including inner cremation contents, and a housing structure for housing the inner cremation contents, the housing structure being made of at least a first fluid, wherein the housing structure is maintainable in a predetermined solid shape only upon maintenance of the housing structure under a freezing temperature of the first fluid. Preferably the fluid is water. The invention provides a sustainable method of making a dissolvable memorial object or urn by transforming water into solid shape of ice encapsulating cremation ashes.