The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Bluetooth SIG, the industry group in charge of defining the standard, has released a new audio codec that promises to make wireless headphones more power-efficient while improving sound quality. Offering listenable audio at lower bitrates means headphones can use less power.

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The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

In comparison, YouTube’s existing Premium plan costs around €11.99 However, it doesn’t include any YouTube Music benefits like ad-free listening, and it doesn’t include Premium’s other features like background playback (for when you want to switch to another app while continuing to listen to audio from a YouTube video), or offline downloads.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 21, 2023

We demonstrate how this platform enables a better model evaluation experience through interactive characterization and visualization of ML model performance and interactive data augmentation and comparison. Study participants included seven computer vision researchers, audio ML researchers, and engineers across three ML teams.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And remember: audio companies arent perfect, so despite lots of research, the earbud shape they decided on may not fit you well. Some earbuds even offer app settings to tweak the audio profiles or firmware updates to improve performance over time. However, overall audio performance is inconsistent and theres no automatic pausing.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

The easy comparison to make here is to Clubhouse, the buzzy social audio app that lets people go live in rooms. Clubhouse is thriving because it only requires a phone and lowers the audio expectation. The followers of everyone participating will see the live room and, depending on their notifications, be pinged about it.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

While the challenges for this technology are centered around noisy audio inputs, the visual stream in multimodal videos (e.g., In contrast, the models themselves are typically large and consist of both visual and audio encoders, and so they tend to overfit on these small datasets. LibriSpeech ).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Samsung Buds comparison chart. The slide also supports rumors of an Apple-like spatial audio feature. WalkingCat provides this handy chart to compare specs across all of Samsung’s wireless buds. Image: WalkingCat. mm tweeter. With a price of $199, the Buds Pro would be $50 cheaper than Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless buds.

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The Verge

JANUARY 30, 2021

For comparison, PC sales were up by 11 percent this year , which is the biggest growth the category had seen in a decade. The firms disagree on how much growth this is when compared to 2019, but both estimate that it’s a lot: Gartner estimates that Chromebooks are up 80 percent, while Canalys says it’s 109 percent.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

There’s barely a comparison. USB connection (HID, Audio). I plugged the numbers into CompareSizes.com to see how it stacks up to consoles that we’ve previously ridiculed for being absolute chonks: Visualization: CompareSizes. From left to right: PS3 60GB, Xbox, Xbox One, PS5 Digital Edition, PS5. BD-R/RE (25G/50G) ~8xCAV. DVD ~3.2xCLV.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The audio clips start and end with the new, fifth voice. A quick comparison of Siri’s new voice with the existing four options pic.twitter.com/A7uLQeLvQw — jon.porter (@JonPorty) February 23, 2022. You can listen to all the Siri options below.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While there had been some early comparisons between Fireside and live audio platforms like Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces, hosting live audio content is only a part of Fireside’s feature set. In Fireside, creators can choose whether they’re hosting live audio, live video, or a combination of both.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Sonos has acquired the Bluetooth audio startup T2 Software, Protocol reports , adding fuel to rumors that Sonos is developing its own headphones. T2 had been working on implementations of the new Bluetooth LE Audio standard and LC3 codec , which delivers better audio quality at lower bitrates for improved headphone battery life.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

It would seem Insomniac has been using the example internally for some time now, which would explain why the source quoted in the Bloomberg report made the same comparison. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales will show off near-instant loading, ray-tracing, 3D audio and the DualSense controller.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

USB-C, USB-A, audio jack on the left. Gen 1 Type-A, and a 3.5mm combination audio jack. My one disappointment was audio. Zoom meetings in the Zoom app weren’t possible on this device — despite using the same internet connection I always use, my audio lagged so far behind on calls that people couldn’t understand me.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

They then press and hold a button to record audio and speak into the integrated microphone. The Yayagram, by comparison, gives her the independence to make and receive messages by herself. “It That’s why the Yayagram is so compelling (“Yaya” is slang for “granny” in Castillean, says Dallo, “a warm way to refer to your grandmother”).

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2021

Like the pricier, larger Move, Sonos is building its Auto Trueplay audio tuning feature right into the Roam. The photo at the top of this story is another new image that makes for an easy size comparison between the Roam and the larger, more expensive Sonos Move. Sonos plans to sell it for $169, and the Roam will ship in April.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Performance comparison between the PaLM 540B parameter model and the prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) on 58 tasks from the Big-bench suite. We show the MattNet results for comparison. The process of creating high-quality video content often includes several stages, from video capturing to video and audio editing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The legal costs and potential damages, if ever issued after years of litigation, are paltry by comparison. The legal costs and potential damages, if ever issued after years of litigation, are paltry by comparison. They know it is ruinous and self-defeating to try to protect what is rightfully theirs. Adam Mossoff.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Like the fourth-gen Echo Dot, the 2020 Amazon Echo also includes a sphere-shape design, but it’s noticeably bigger than the Echo Dot when you do a size comparison. If you’re interested in an Alexa smart speaker with better audio quality and also Dolby Atmos support, the Echo Studio is the Amazon product you may want to purchase.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Speech-language pathologists manually reviewed all of the utterances in the test set for transcription accuracy and audio quality. The audio was reviewed, any personally identifiable information (PII) was removed, and then that data was transcribed by speech-language pathologists. I've been talking for quite a while now.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

The most obvious comparison for the Steam Deck is, of course, Nintendo’s Switch — particularly the upcoming OLED model — which offers a similar handheld configuration, screen size, and design. It also offers Bluetooth audio for connecting a pair of wireless headphones, something the Switch rather frustratingly lacks. Image: Valve.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Here are a few more PS4 screenshot comparisons, courtesy of Eurogamer , and some on Xbox One from Kotaku. I’ve also encountered the occasional crash, visual lags and skips, and some audio issues. While I haven’t been able to test this, early reports point to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Cyberpunk being something of a mess.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Amidst the rehashes of the PS5’s haptics and 3D audio and a demo reel of Sony’s admittedly awesome displays for making virtual movie sets , we got to see a robot hand that Sony said could figure out grip strength depending on what it was picking up, a slightly dystopian-sounding “global sensing system,” and more. Image: Sony.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Shure’s MV7 is a lower-budget option, offering an all-in-one microphone / audio interface with a plug-and-play experience at $249. Though you cannot control internal settings when using the XLR output, you do not need a Cloudlifter or phantom power to boost the signal when plugging into another audio interface.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

I don’t think forcing such a direct comparison was the right move because, despite 1More claiming that it offers “so much more” than Apple’s flagship buds, the ComfoBuds Pro can’t match up with the AirPods Pro in all areas — as is expected with such a price discrepancy — but they’re still an excellent product in their own right.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

For this reason and more, you won’t find as many startups entering this space in comparison to dating networks or messaging.”. However, the company still had to build a product that converts data from a credit card’s magnetic strip into an audio signal, allowing it to recognize transactions, which is neither easy or cheap to do.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Their first app was a social audio experience that let families capture and record their life stories — like tales about how the grandparents first met, for example, or even just birthday wishes for a child that can be listened to later, as a sort of audio diary. ” Honeycomb, by comparison, is private by default.

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The Verge

AUGUST 23, 2021

OnePlus also tosses in extras like a low-latency mode for gaming and Zen Mode Air, which plays soothing relaxation audio. I bring up the Nothing buds because they’re the first project of OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s new company and, at least on paper, have similar capabilities, so there will inevitably be comparisons between the two.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2021

For comparison, JBL’s slightly larger Charge 5 speaker goes for 20 hours, while even the much larger UE Hyperboom tops out at 24 hours. standard , which offers a more power efficient way to receive audio from your devices. That’s an impressive amount of battery life for a small (roughly 5 x 3 x 3 inch) Bluetooth speaker like this.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

They’re about comparison shopping it up against other MacBooks and even other Windows laptops. On top of that, one of those tabs was running a videoconference over WebRTC, and I was recording audio via Audio Hijack and using Bluetooth headphones. With all that, the fans were spinning, but nothing was chugging.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2021

They look downright miniature in comparison. The Powerbeats Pro, Powerbeats, and even the $50 Beats Flex neckband earbuds all have one of Apple’s branded chips inside — either the H1 or W1 — for features like instant setup, automatic pairing across all Apple devices that are signed in to your iCloud account, and audio sharing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The constant comparisons of our lives to the highlight reels that people post on Facebook and Instagram is ridiculously lopsided since the majority of those platforms’ users don’t post unflattering photos of themselves, or share their sad or bad news with others. And yet, most of us just can’t quit social networking.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

ReadyTalk — This standard for webinar production offers integrated slides, screensharing, live moderated chat, and high-quality recorded audio. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. WebEx and GoToMeeting , available through TechSoup, offer free iPad apps and easy availability on mobile devices.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Despite some early — and erroneous — comparisons between Fireside and other live audio platforms like Twitter Spaces or Clubhouse, the startup gained traction due to a differentiated feature set that also prioritizes video content.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

Amazon is launching new lens options today for its Echo Frames smart audio glasses: two types of polarized sunglass lenses for use outside, and blue light-filtering lenses for staring at bright screens. Echo Frames are far simpler in comparison to other smart glasses, like Google Glass. Echo Frames with Classic sunglass lenses.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Amazfit GTR 3 Pro, GTR 3, and GTS 3 feature comparison. It includes Wi-Fi, GPS, 2.3GB of on-board music storage (enough for a few hundred songs), and Bluetooth audio and call support underneath that round 1.45-inch They can also sync your health and activity data to Strava, Runkeeper, and others. Image: Amazfit. Amazfit GTS 3.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

My wife (who is a Spotify user) spent the morning showing off her bespoke playlist to me, which included (among other things) specially curated songs for specific moods, rankings of where she placed among global Doja Cat listeners, a color-changing “audio aura,” and an interactive quiz. My wife’s far cooler Spotify Wrapped recap.

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