The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Neil Young was the first to pull his music from the service, followed by Joni Mitchell and others. Although some Spotify fans might disagree, there are quite a few alternatives available for good music listening. Amazon Music. Amazon Music. Amazon Music Prime is free to members of its Prime shopping / video / etc.

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Engadget

APRIL 14, 2025

If you plan to use your headphones for other media besides music, checking for latency is also a must some delay can impact playback for things like movies or games, even if most true wireless headphones now offer minimal lag. Overall sound quality is improved, though, and voice performance on calls is well above average.

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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. They let you create big, customized buttons for relatively complex actions like playing music or calling somebody — tasks that might be difficult for people with a cognitive disability.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“I have been thinking about music since my time at TikTok, and I was really thinking about building something on my own, but then it took me another year to finally have the guts to do it,” said Henriquez. wants to help people easily produce, own and share music that they can create using just their phone. last summer.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Electronic Arts is pledging to open the patents for some of its accessibility-related tech, including the much-celebrated Apex Legends ping system, the company announced today. EA says it plans to add patents for future accessibility-related tech to the pledge, as well as open-sourcing more of its tech. Image: Electronic Arts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

When Anada Lakra and Ilya Usorov first moved to the United States, they struggled to find their voices. The curriculum is built around three Ps: posture, to help with the physical feel of using an English R versus a Spanish R; phonology, the vowels and consonants; and porosity, which is the musicality of an accent.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Google has partnered with leading accessibility firm Tobii Dynavox, best known for creating speech synthesis and eye-tracking devices, to integrate Google Assistant into the company’s Snap Core First line of dedicated tablets and mobile apps. Photo: Google. Google Assistant now works on Tobii’s line of speech synthesis tablets.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 28, 2022

Active noise-canceling technology is more accessible than ever nowadays, so it’s easy to find a variety of headphones with the ability to block out nearly all unwanted ambient sound. These can include voice assistant support or multiple levels of noise cancellation when flying. By paying more, you also gain better features.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 The beat goes on : Our music listening is getting way too smart for its own good. Like branding you could go have a beer with : Tracksuit raises $5 million to make brand tracking more accessible , Rebecca reports. Go long or go short? Sarah has more.

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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

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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

Just like the assumption about the tools, it is incredibly valuable to maintain the position that you (read: your organization, if not you personally, smartypants) know more, have more access to information about, and are more closely following news related to your cause and work than the community. This is a big one.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Internet phone calls, referred to as Voice over IP (VoIP), are becoming an increasingly popular cloud service due to the low cost, long-term hardware sustainability, increased quality, and wider variety of features, as compared to the copper infrastructure of traditional phone systems. Hold music. Even enable hold music.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

For advanced for photo editing, the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan provides users access to numerous Adobe photo editing tools, such as Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. Internet World Stats is extensive collection of stats about internet access and usage worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

For advanced for photo editing, the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan provides users access to numerous Adobe photo editing tools, such as Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC. Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. Internet World Stats is extensive collection of stats about internet access and usage worldwide.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s faster to respond to voice commands, and most importantly, it sounds a lot better than the Google Home ever could. They work well, but I do wish they were more accessible — you’re going to have to show someone new how to use them because they wouldn’t know that they even exist just by looking at the speaker.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

YouTube will scale back a significant portion of YouTube Originals, which produced original content including scripted series, educational videos, and music and celebrity programming. The company began pivoting toward ad-supported content featuring celebrities like Katy Perry and Kevin Hart, free for users to access without a subscription.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As well as offering access to Alexa’s typical voice commands, it includes large touchscreen icons that provide access to features like directions, music playback, and making calls. The Play screen gives access to media playback. Finally, the Home screen provides shortcuts to frequently used actions.

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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Their missions are varied—from gender equity in the music industry to helping those affected by incarceration and addiction—but their causes are all worthy of your time and support. Mission: Boulanger Initiative’s mission is to promote music composed by womxn through performance, education, and commissions. Impacting: Music education.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s built a platform that offers fully automated, scalable audio production by using AI-driven synthetic media, (“ethical”) voice cloning, and audio mastering — which can be delivered to people’s ears via websites, mobile apps, smart speakers and so on via its APIs.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2021

The Amazon Music mobile app is getting a new feature to make it a little bit easier to use while driving. Car Mode is a simplified version of Amazon Music’s interface, featuring larger buttons, suggested playlists and albums, and easy access to Alexa. Car Mode is available in Amazon Music now on iOS and Android.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was a unique device — instead of prioritizing an accessible price and smart assistant features, it was laser-focused on audio quality and considerably more expensive than its closest competitors from Amazon and Google, while being less capable as a smart speaker. The USB-C power cable is permanently attached to the HomePod mini.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

per month and gives you access to “select audiobooks, Audible Originals, podcasts, and more,” while an Audible Premium Plus membership for $14.95 Its Windows app is easy to navigate and gives you access to all kinds of recommendations and curated playlists. Amazon Music. An Audible Plus membership starts at $7.95

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Google has a bevy of new features coming soon to Android, including new widgets for YouTube Music, Google Play Books, and Google Photos; new Android Auto features; and updates for Google Assistant and Google Photos. New widgets are also coming to the Android phone screen for the YouTube Music, Google Play Books, and Google Photos apps.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

If you’ve got an Amazon Fire TV box, hate picking up a voice remote, and have a separate Alexa-enabled device like an Echo smart speaker, then I have some great news. Although many of these smart display-like features have been available on the Fire TV before thanks to Amazon’s voice remote, what’s new is being able to access them hands-free.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2021

Roku’s new $30 remote has upgrades like a rechargeable battery and hands-free voice commands Roku’s new Voice Remote Pro is the company’s first remote control to come with always-listening mics built in. Weight-wise, the Voice Remote Pro felt about the same in my hand as the remote that came with my TCL Roku TV. The new $29.99

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The company was founded in 2017 by a team of six music and audio research scientists, including Han, who completed his PhD in music information retrieval at Seoul National University. But with music or environmental noises, different types of sounds usually overlap.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

per month Apple Music Voice Plan. Apple launched a new Apple Music Voice Plan, which lets you access Apple Music with Siri. Apple is introducing new colors to the HomePod Mini — the smart speaker will now also be available in yellow, orange, and blue. Apple introduces a new $4.99 It will cost $4.99

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

an animated series from Marvel Studios that features the voice acting cast of many Marvel Cinematic Universe stars, also got a new trailer that offered a first look at the upcoming series. A longform musical comedy series for Moana, hitting Disney Plus in 2023. A longform musical comedy series for Moana, hitting Disney Plus in 2023.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

gSyncIt can get my notes into Google Docs, but those don't sync with the Pre and I don't want to have to get Internet access just to read or write a note. I found that MediaMonkey , a free music organizer/player, sync tool that I had used with an older MP3 player, will sync my tunes with the Pre. I still wish they'd add voice memos.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

In future, the company envisages itself as a platform for individual pieces of premium content – in the same way that iTunes is the go-to place for music. ? Monetization of the platform is achieved in three ways: ad-funded access for free users, a premium subscription and in-app purchases. Peekster. . Tank Top TV.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2022

Running without music is like some form of medieval torture: it sucks. Are the volume controls easily accessible? There are plenty of options available that use a link cable for the earphones only or are completely wireless and have features like fitness tracking or voice controls. Will they stay in your ears?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Alongside them, the company says the Google Assistant driving mode, which gives you access to features like voice controls for music while you’re driving, is launching in preview in the US. Google says users will have the option of enabling the mode via a pop up in Maps, or else from the Google Assistant settings.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It can play music and show you the weather and answer questions like any Echo smart display. From there, you can tell the Astro to go to a specific location either with a voice command or remotely through the app. The Astro can only be paired to a single phone at a time — a security measure to help prevent unauthorized access or use.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s also where Apple announced its new Apple Music Voice subscription, a cheaper tier of its music streaming service that you access only via the Siri voice assistant, although there will be a limited app option; it arrives later this year for $4.99 per month and will work with the Mini.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon is making a small tweak to the Alexa companion app on iOS and Android; in a few days you’ll no longer need to tap the blue Alexa button on your screen to say a voice command, TechCrunch reports. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. You won’t have to touch your iPhone if you’ve got Face ID; just give it a quick glance to unlock.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Echo and Echo Dot are smart speakers that you can use for music, phone calls, calendar reminders, or news alerts. Responding to voice commands, Alexa has an answer to almost anything you ask. Just by shouting out, you can play music, adjust the volume, and set an alarm or timer. What can Alexa do?

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