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Echo Dot vs. Echo Pop: Which Amazon device should you buy during the Big Spring Sale?

Mashable Tech

The app is also where you’ll connect other apps like Spotify or Audible to stream them on your Echo devices using Alexa voice commands. In my side-by-side comparisons of the Echo Dot and the Echo Pop, I couldn’t detect a difference in sound quality between the two devices.

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Google Nest Audio review: the sweet spot

The Verge

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. Similarly, Sonos is now in the smart speaker game , bringing its rock-solid wireless streaming and class-leading audio quality to the table.

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Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside acquires Stremium to bring live, interactive shows to your TV

TechCrunch

Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside , which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive, live shows with audience engagement, will soon expand to the TV’s big screen. Shows on Fireside’s platform could be streamed live to its app, recorded, saved, or even simulcast to other social networks.

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Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix because current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’

The Verge

But now that it is available via streaming services like Amazon Music HD and more recently Apple Music , people are listening to it in smaller rooms or with headphones. The album has effectively lasted through three eras of music: first mono, then stereo, and now spatial audio. But again, I’m gonna replace it, so that’s cool.”.

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Listen to Bluetooth’s low power, high quality LC3 codec coming soon to headphones

The Verge

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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AVFormer: Injecting vision into frozen speech models for zero-shot AV-ASR

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Arsha Nagrani and Paul Hongsuck Seo, Research Scientists, Google Research Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a well-established technology that is widely adopted for various applications such as conference calls, streamed video transcription and voice commands. LibriSpeech ).

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Mark Cuban-backed live entertainment app Fireside launches to creators

TechCrunch

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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