TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan. . “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan. Elon Musk busts Clubhouse limit, fans stream to YouTube, he switches to interviewing Robinhood CEO.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Posted by Zalán Borsos, Research Software Engineer, and Marco Tagliasacchi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The recent progress in generative AI unlocked the possibility of creating new content in several different domains, including text, vision and audio. In the case of audio, neural audio codecs (e.g.,

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Engadget

APRIL 22, 2025

There's plenty of new dialogue too, including unique voice lines for all races. The user interface, lighting effects, landscapes, audio and, of course, gameplay have all been refined here. Bethesda is also promising additional autosaves, enhanced accessibility features and improvements to enemy scaling.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The introduction of voice has already started happening in several mobile apps, and presents a tremendous opportunity for developers. This indeed seems like a paradox, as a few years ago text messages and apps had brought down voice revenues for operators. But now, voice presents a plethora of opportunities for these apps.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The new Nest Audio sits between the Nest Mini and Home Max in price, size, and output. Despite that lower price, the Nest Audio is an improvement over the Google Home in nearly every way. It’s faster to respond to voice commands, and most importantly, it sounds a lot better than the Google Home ever could.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

NVIDIA NIM microservices, available now, and AI Blueprints , in the coming weeks, accelerate AI development and improve its accessibility. The System Assistant allows users to run real-time diagnostics, get recommendations on performance optimizations, or control system software and peripherals all via simple voice or text commands.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

This tiny porcelain box delivers fast, customizable streaming with support for 4K HDR, Dolby Vision, and even Dolby Atmos audio if you’ve got the right speakers. It’s got voice search, a customizable button, and a way to make the remote ring when it disappears into the couch cushions. And it does it fast.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips — which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. Dank audio memes anyone?

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Descript, the maker of artificial intelligence-powered audio editing software, is launching a new tier of subscription today called Descript Pro that features access to its Overdub feature. Overdub, first released in beta last year , is a synthesis tool that lets you effectively create an AI voice double for yourself.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Access to People. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words. User Generated.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

At the Digital Engagement Event , back on 6th October, David Wilcox and I helped the Community Voices team facilitate two sessions that focused on the three things more important to digital engagement than the technology. Access to People. During these report backs I captured a word cloud on a flip chart of key words. User Generated.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Twitter has rolled out support for voice direct messages on iOS and Android in India starting today, the company has announced. Android Central reports that the audio messages are now available in three countries worldwide: India, Brazil, and Japan. Plans for voice DMs were first announced last year.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

One of the stranger applications of deepfakes — AI technology used to manipulate audiovisual content — is the audio deepfake scam. Hackers use machine learning to clone someone’s voice and then combine that voice clone with social engineering techniques to convince people to move money where it shouldn’t be. But it’s passable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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VentureBeat

APRIL 22, 2025

With a focus on expressive quality, reproducibility, and open access, Dia adds a distinctive new voice to the landscape of text-to-speech. Read More

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Clubhouse has confirmed one of its users was able to siphon off audio feeds from the invitation-only app and make them accessible from a third-party website, raising security concerns about the fledgling service. Although Clubhouse is blocked in China , users are reportedly still able to access the service via VPNs.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Captions on a voice tweet. Twitter is now rolling out captions for voice tweets, the company announced Thursday. Twitter first launched voice tweets in June 2020 , but they were quickly criticized at the time by accessibility advocates for not having captions. Image: Twitter.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 13, 2025

TL;DR: Enjoy access to multiple AI models in one easy spot with 1min.AI , now only $79.97 You'll receive unlimited access to the prompt library, brand voice options, storage, and collaboration features for up to 20 team members with the Advanced Business Plan, making it a great option for small businesses. 540) through April 30.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Wisdom , a social audio app that’s focused on surfacing “life advice” and broadening access to mentorship — and whose iOS app launch we covered back in October — has nabbed $2 million in seed funding off the back of early traction. It’s great to be able to announce our investment in Social Audio Inc.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day , Google is announcing a few updates to its suite of accessibility features for Android. Google is also adding features to Live Transcribe , Bluetooth support to Sound Amplify, and better navigation options to Voice Access. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In a major boon for accessibility, Twitter is now rolling out automatic captions for videos, the company announced Tuesday. There’s also no way to report inaccurate or bad captions, a Twitter spokesperson tells The Verge, though they say “we’re always looking at ways to improve our accessibility features.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Clubhouse took off last year and spurred competitors to add their own voice chat rooms that can host hundreds if not thousands of people. This makes it unusable for deaf people and difficult to use for people who are hard of hearing or struggle with audio processing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Viewing WhatsApp attachments is actually somewhat easier than accessing the same kinds of attachments sent through email. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate. 2) Information Hub.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The developers of audio chat room app Clubhouse plan to add additional encryption to prevent it from transmitting pings to servers in China, after Stanford researchers said they found vulnerabilities in its infrastructure. Voice or video traffic from non-China based users — including US users — is never routed through China.”

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

However, the internets role as the worlds largest open-access library has remained. The Promise of Generative AI Generative AI refers to deep-learning models capable of generating human-like outputs, including text, images, video, and audio. In so doing, is generative AI inadvertently reducing the voices of many to the banality of one?

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

Twitter may be introducing voice effects to Spaces | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Twitter may be adding voice effects to its audio chat platform Spaces, a post from Twitter sleuth Jane Manchum Wong suggests. Sound effects may sound like a minor feature, but it could make the app more accessible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Accessible Social :: accessible-social.com. Accessible Social is a free resource hub for digital marketers to discover how to make social media content accessible. Wistia is a video and audio creation tool that allows you to add email pop-ups to your videos and podcasts. wpbeginner :: wpbeginner.com. Social Media.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Voice control provides unique opportunities for accessibility — and some complicated setup As both a software engineer and an avid player of strategy games, chaosparrot struggled to reckon with the damage his work and hobbies had done to his hands. Illustration by Laurent Hrybrk. We have to make it ourselves”. By teaching Parrot.Py

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Video and audio recordings are all well and good, but a text version of your meeting can be a lot easier to search if you’re looking for that one specific bit of data inside of an hour’s worth of conversation. There are a number of third-party apps out there that provide AI transcribing for recorded audio, such as Rev and Otter.ai.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

We experience that dynamism and verve in our own audio listening, but then we start to tune into our company’s internal communications, and, well, you certainly don’t need sleeping pills to zone out. First, the team tried to create audio narrations of evergreen content at major publishers like The New York Times. Image Credits: Spokn.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Amazon is working on a new feature for its Alexa voice assistant that will let the software launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands, a first for Amazon’s assistant and a bold expansion of its strategy to position Alexa as a platform-agnostic alternative to Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Instagram has added text-to-speech and voice effects to its TikTok competitor Reels, two features TikTok has had for some time. The robotic voice-overs used as narration for videos grew so ubiquitous on TikTok in fact, that voice actor Bev Standing sued the company in May , saying it didn’t have permission to use her voice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2012

The recent upgrades in our Bookshare site and service such as the new audio formats, images, and image descriptions motivated several Members to share their thoughts, and we sought their permission to share those thoughts with you! I do have to say the Bookshare TTS voice for the mp3 format is great! I love them. Way to go, Bookshare!

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Engadget

APRIL 11, 2025

Engadget While there is support for nearly all of Googles AI features, the $499 Pixel 9a doesnt get access to Googles Screenshots app , which is an odd oversight. Having said that, we dont know what kind of OS is running on the device, but it will process voice, audio and visual data. and sluggish charging. And struggle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence-powered voice and video technologies have been gaining steady popularity in recent years. A Korean startup called Neosapience has developed a synthetic voice and video platform, Typecast , that lets users turn text into a video without recording and editing in a studio. .

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Amazon is giving car companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI platform. Car makers can design custom wake words and record unique voices for their assistants. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

However, unlike a solution such as Nvidia’s RTX Voice software , Google’s processing happens in the cloud, meaning it can work consistently on a much broader range of hardware. Lachapelle emphasizes that the data is encrypted during transport, and it’s never accessible outside of the de-noising process.

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