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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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2024

So at Forum One, we don’t have to do a lot of convincing about the importance of accessibility, but there are still a lot of questions about how best to build digital experiences that welcome and respect all users. Accessibility lessons from a lifeguard Growing up in the Pocono Mountains, I had the luxury of learning to swim in a river.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Sit quietly for a moment and pay attention to the different sounds around you. These are all noises Cochlear.ai , a Seoul-based sound recognition startup, is training its SaaS platform to identify. will use its Series A on hiring over the next 18 months and to increase the dataset of sounds used to train its deep learning algorithms.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Internet phone calls, typically referred to as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) by IT professionals, are becoming increasingly popular amongst businesses and nonprofits, both small and large. Why organizations tend to switch to VoIP: Higher quality sound. Accessible on multiple devices, including desktops, laptops, and cell phones.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From the first experience of surround sound to seeing your hands function and your body moving through a digital world, nonprofit marketers and fundraisers absolutely need to explore this next iteration of the internet. feet (2 meters by 2 meters) with easy access to a chair that can be pulled in when needed. ? Don’t skip them!

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

However, AI is changing that by simplifying video production and making it accessible to everyone—even those without technical skills. The automatic subtitle generation feature further ensures your videos are accessible to all learners. Automatic subtitles improve accessibility for diverse learners. Similarly, Murf.ai

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Roblox is taking its first steps to introduce voice chat by opening up a feature it’s calling “Spatial Voice” to select developers in an invitation-only beta, the company announced Thursday. Adding voice chat raises concerns about moderation. Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

Remember Accessibility: Not everyone perceives colors or text the same way. Know Your Voice and Tone: Decide whether youll sound warm and conversational or scholarly and formal. Ensure your brand voice and visuals remain consistent across each channel, so no matter how someone finds you, they recognize its you.

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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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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

A supremely comfortable fit, decent noise cancellation, and good sound for $100 1More has absolutely flooded the true wireless earbud market, and it’s confident enough in its new ComfoBuds Pro noise-canceling earbuds to proclaim them as superior to the AirPods Pro — for a fraction of the price. But do they sound better than the AirPods Pro?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Google launched a new app called Relate, a voice assistant that recognizes impaired speech. Google launched a beta app today that people with speech impairments can use as a voice assistant while contributing to a multiyear research effort to improve Google’s speech recognition. Image: Google.

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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

MAY 13, 2021

Microsoft has announced new text-to-speech and speech-to-text features for Xbox Party Chat, which aim to help make communication on the platform more accessible. The window in the top right shows transcribed text from voice chat. It’s good to see them continuing that work, especially around voice chat.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 28, 2022

When you're flying, you'll inevitably be confronted by a multitude of unpleasant sounds, from crying babies to the roaring engine of the plane. 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.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Grace Chang saw this as an access issue: Both founders experienced bouts of depression and found it difficult to get clinicians to help, leading them to think about it from their perspective as engineers. So Chang and co-founder Rima Seiilova-Olson built an API to detect depression through voice. “We

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Does this reflect our organization’s voice and values? Give AI access to: Your organization’s unique voice Successful past communications Donor feedback and preferences Your mission-specific language 3. If you recite the script—cringe alert—you will sound unnatural, even robotic. Don’t use AI for everything.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Without visual information, the player has to listen to the sounds of the environment when moving around. I get overwhelmed easily by games that introduce lots of controls up front, so it was nice to have a voice in my ear explaining which buttons to press and when. The Vale is hopefully a sign of more blind accessible games to come.

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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. Tech accessibility has improved in major ways over the years, but it’s still frequently tacked on well after products are launched. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Engadget

APRIL 11, 2025

With more AI smarts, a new hardware design, and the biggest battery on any Pixel yet, on paper, it sounds good. 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. Especially the sub-$500 price tag. and sluggish charging.

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

It's best for those who have a smaller living room or den they want to outfit with better TV sound. There's also Alexa support built into the remote, so you can use voice commands to search for content. Also available at Sonos in their March Madness sale. They support wired USB-C audio, plus they have solid ANC as well.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They’ve switched from an open-air design to a sealed fit; have better sound, thanks to that decision (and a partnership with THX); and they offer adequate active noise cancellation. For Samsung , it’s the clever new speech detection feature that enables ambient sound as soon as you start talking. In Apple’s case, that’s Spatial Audio.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A video produced by VentureBeat shows the software in action, with G Suite’s director of product management Serge Lachapelle demonstrating how it can pretty seamlessly remove the sound of crackling crisp packets, clicking pens, or glass clinking. Google’s announcement said the tech will also work on dogs barking or the clicking of a keyboard.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 1, 2021

With tons of features, great sound quality, and hands-free voice assistant access, they're an excellent buy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

The more engagement your video receives, the wider its reach and visibility will be, giving you access to millions of prospective fans, donors and partners without any additional work or expense. Now consider all of the different ways you could tell that story, including narrative voice, structure and imagery.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Google’s latest smart speaker has good sound and an attractive price Four years is an eternity in the modern tech product world, but that’s exactly how long it’s been since Google’s first smart speaker, the Google Home , was released. Still, the Nest Audio’s shape is hard to describe without accidentally sounding pejorative.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The company’s home-baked text-to-speech engine works faster than real time and produces natural-sounding clips of pretty much any length, from quick snippets to hours-long readings. But soon it had built its own that was more efficient, resulted in more convincing voices and could produce clips of arbitrary lengths.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2022

The buds are the sixth iteration of the company’s smart hearing aids and feature nifty new tech that automatically adjusts sound levels on the go. Hearing aids work by converting sound picked up by a microphone into a digital signal that’s then amplified. But the big update this year is a new feature Eargo dubs Sound Adjust.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

I like a bit of diversity in how people around me sound, and it’s easy to see how this technology could be abused; it wouldn’t be awesome, for example, if everyone who speaks with a certain accent was automatically “corrected” into the same accent. “ Articulatory gestures are just groups of sounds.

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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

JULY 28, 2020

While its phones use Google’s Android operating system, Samsung has consistently tried to build out an ecosystem of its own software that runs atop Android, including the Bixby voice assistant and the Galaxy app store. Google and Samsung have clashed over Android customizations before.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In a nutshell, PIN AIs app and LLM live on a users smartphone, accessing the personal data via other apps and platforms that only the user authorizes, and then provide specific and tailored insights or answers based on that information. Its becoming the new way that we access the internet.

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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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Engadget

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The native macOS app will offer access to the web-based version of the Microsoft tool. In practice, the apps functionalities sound pretty much identical to the experience of going to the web version of Copilot. Microsoft is making its Copilot AI assistant available as a Mac app. It's rolling out today in the US, the UK and Canada.

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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. HomePod mini sound quality.

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