LinkedIn adds audio clip feature to help correctly pronounce contact names
TechSpot
JULY 8, 2020
LinkedIn has added a new feature designed to help others pronounce your name correctly.
LinkedIn will let you upload audio clips to tell people how to pronounce your name
The Verge
JULY 8, 2020
The 10-second audio clips appear as speaker icons next to a user’s name. LinkedIn has added a new feature to its user profiles: the option to record 10-second audio clips to let others know how to pronounce your name. Image: The Verge.
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Amazon launches group video and audio calling for Echo devices
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Amazon is launching a new group video or audio calling feature for Echo devices today, just in time for the holidays. Originally announced back in September, group calling will allow up to seven participants to join an audio or video call on supported Echo devices like the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. Group calling on an Echo Show.
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Wisdom is a social audio app for opening access to mentorship
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 14, 2021
UK social audio startup Wisdom has launched a new mentorship marketplace that’s described as a mix between Clubhouse and the celebrity-focused courses platform Masterclass. At launch Wisdom has around 10,000 “experts” signed up to dish out knowledge through audio livestreams, following around a month of early testing.
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Windows 11’s new meeting features improve eye contact, framing, and background blur
The Verge
APRIL 5, 2022
Four new features are coming soon that will improve background noise suppression, eye contact, framing, and background blur. These new features will arrive first on Qualcomm devices and take advantage of neural processing unit (NPU) chips to improve video and audio in meetings. Image: Microsoft.
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3 Quick Tips for a Better Nonprofit Website Aesthetic
sgEngage
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Then, add call-to-action buttons to highlight your most important pages, like your contact page and donation page. High-quality videos engage users with both visuals and audio, giving a new perspective on your work. Organize your site menu and footer logically with just a few key headings and subheadings. Make forms easy to fill out.
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More Insecure Content Blocked By Google Chrome
Byte Technology
NOVEMBER 23, 2019
Website developers need to make adjustments to the site’s digital assets (the video, audio and images referred to earlier) to ensure they load properly. Contact Byte Technology today for a site analysis and proactive correction to insecure content blocked issues on your website before it’s too late.
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Google fixes odd bug that made some Pixel Buds audio cut out at 1:50 intervals
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
The company has confirmed that it has identified the cause of a strange, frustrating bug that caused audio to drop out for some users every one minute and 50 seconds — on the dot. Google is still trying to iron out connectivity issues with its Pixel Buds.
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Microsoft Teams gets an overhauled calling interface, CarPlay support, and more
The Verge
DECEMBER 1, 2020
A new calling interface will now show contacts, voicemail, and calling history in a single location. Microsoft Teams users will also be able to transfer calls between mobile and desktop soon, allowing people to quickly move locations in the middle of an audio or video call.
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Bulletin, Facebook's newsletter subscription service is now live
TechSpot
JUNE 30, 2021
Whether it's about food, science, sports or any other subject you might enjoy, Bulletin lets you find multiple subscriber communities to discuss with others and access live audio rooms where you can get in contact with.
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A dating app — not Facebook or Clubhouse — cracked getting audio to go viral
The Verge
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Anyway, in between mashed potato servings, I did my best to “log off” and not think about audio — no offense — so instead, I binged the entire new season of Selling Sunset and played many crosswords. EXCLUSIVE: Hinge makes viral audio happen, despite many other apps trying. I’m back for you now, though, and we have a big issue ahead.
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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. TextPlus allows you to easily send group texts to your smartphone contacts. Bump technology entails two individuals “bumping&# phones to add one another to each others’ contacts.
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5 effective networking strategies in the digital age
The Next Web
JANUARY 19, 2014
Don’t forget that these tools should be used in conjunction with networking offline as well, since they help add to your in-person interactions that are often the most effective at generating a strong bond with your contacts. It’s all about creating a large quality network of contacts you can rely on, and who can rely on you.
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How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Firefox, and more
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Scroll down until you find “Media and Contacts,” then tap “Videos and Photos.”. Scroll down until you find “Media and Contacts” and tap on it. You can either allow audio and video to play automatically or limit it. A drop-down menu will let you allow audio and video, block audio, or block audio and video.
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How to use Microsoft Teams with your friends and family
The Verge
AUGUST 7, 2020
The app offers a variety of ways to communicate: chat, audio-only, and video. The next screen allows you to sync your contacts with the Team app. Teams lets you chat via text, audio, or video. Chats can include text, photos, and audio. You can allow Teams to access your contacts to make things a bit easier.)
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Free Digital Storytelling Online Event
Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
We will help you learn how to maximize the impact of your organization's message with online audio, video, and images. If you would like to get in touch directly, contact the TechSoup Team: tsdigs@techsoupglobal.org. There are lots of ways to participate: Join a webinar. 10/1: Digital Storytelling Challenge kickoff webinar.
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More Insecure Content Blocked By Google Chrome
Byte Technology
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Website developers need to make adjustments to the site’s digital assets (the video, audio and images referred to earlier) to ensure they load properly. Contact Byte Technology today for a website analysis and proactive correction to insecure content blocked issues on your website before it’s too late.
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Apple announces a slew of accessibility updates
The Verge
MAY 19, 2021
Beginning May 20th, customers can use the new SignTime sign language interpreter service to contact AppleCare and retail customer care through their web browsers. For neurodiverse people (or anyone who likes white noise), Apple is introducing Background Sounds that can be incorporated with other audio and system sounds. Image: Apple.
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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 28, 2013
Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors.
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Amazon Echo Frames review: listen to these specs
The Verge
DECEMBER 24, 2020
The Echo Frames have sold me on the concept of having discreet, personal audio available at all times. I normally wear glasses, so I had contact lenses in during my testing.). Each stem has two tiny holes located back near your ear for audio. Echo Frames audio and battery life. I think it’s also a necessary trick.
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60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 3, 2012
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.
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70 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 27, 2012
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.
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This is what a deepfake voice clone used in a failed fraud attempt sounds like
The Verge
JULY 27, 2020
One of the stranger applications of deepfakes — AI technology used to manipulate audiovisual content — is the audio deepfake scam. We’ve never actually heard the audio from a deepfake scam — until now. We’ve never actually heard the audio from a deepfake scam — until now. But it’s passable. It definitely sounds human.
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85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 27, 2012
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.
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Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists targeted in apparent iOS spyware attack
The Verge
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Citizen Lab’s analysis suggests the spyware can record audio from a phone (including ambient noise and audio from phone calls), take photos, track location, and access passwords. It has disclosed its findings to Apple, and the company is looking into the issue. Devices updated to iOS 14 don’t appear to be affected.
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A Month with the Palm Pre
Robert Weiner
MARCH 5, 2010
I tested PocketMirror, CompanionLink, Go Contacts Sync, gSyncIt, Google Calendar Sync, and Evernote. Here's what I've ended up with: Contacts: gSyncIt, via Google (my contacts sync to Gmail, then to the Pre). It can be used to record audio as well, although it doesn't seem to respond to an external mic. Dictionary.
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This is Microsoft’s vision for the future of meetings
The Verge
MAY 21, 2021
Microsoft imagines meeting rooms where cameras are placed at eye level to improve eye contact, and spatial audio that will help you hear colleagues’ voices when they’re dialed in. This spatial audio will also supposedly make it feel like a remote colleague is more present in a room. Image: Microsoft.
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Sony WH-1000XM4 review: the best noise-canceling headphones get better
The Verge
AUGUST 6, 2020
Sony has added what it calls “Precise Voice Pickup technology” to the 1000XM4s, which optimizes audio processing from the five built-in microphones for clearer voice capture — and the difference is apparent. I don’t like the headphones taking control or changing the audio on me unexpectedly, so I tend to leave those features switched off.
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Caliphate’s bad source shows the dangers of the podcasting gold rush
The Verge
DECEMBER 18, 2020
The Times ’ head of film, TV, and audio, Sam Dolnick, described the show as a “cinematic experience” that “absolutely lends itself to TV” and came with “a lot of interest from Hollywood.”. The paper of record, well-known for its audio work with The Daily , now has a stain on its podcasting endeavors. The team didn’t push him. “I
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Samsung announces Galaxy Buds Pro, its most premium earbuds yet
The Verge
JANUARY 14, 2021
The tweaked design “reduces the contact area between your ear and the bud, improving comfort and minimizing any clogged-up feeling,” according to Samsung. More important is that Samsung says they deliver the “best audio experience yet” of any of the company’s earbuds thanks to an 11mm woofer and 6.5mm tweeter. Image: Samsung.
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Zebra raises $1.1M in a pre-seed round for messaging that pairs photos with voice chat
TechCrunch
JULY 21, 2021
“It’s no secret that we are in the midst of an audio revolution, one that has ushered in a series of new audio-first social platforms and content vehicles,” Ohanian said, noting that Zebra’s unique blend of photos and voice is what caught his eye.
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98 100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 8, 2013
This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.
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Here’s how Google’s experimental 3D telepresence booth works
The Verge
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Audio is another challenge, as the system needs to make it sound like a person’s words are coming from their actual mouth. And then there’s just the small matter of eye-contact. Audio is captured at 44.1 The system also includes four additional tracking cameras, four microphones, two loudspeakers, and infrared projectors.
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Flush with new cash, AssemblyAI looks to grow its AI-as-a-service business
TechCrunch
JULY 14, 2022
.” AssemblyAI offers AI-powered, API-based services in over 80 languages for automatic transcription, topic detection, and content moderation as well as “auto chapters,” which breaks down audio and video files into “chapters” with summaries for each. Image Credits: AssemblyAI.
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The Startup Battlefield 200: Education, security and space edition
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Blazing Audio. Contact our sponsorship sales team by filling out this form. You can find them all listed in the Exhibitor Directory. Startup Battlefield 200: Education, security and space edition. AltSchool Africa. CipherMode Labs. Coremeleon. Digest.ai. E-liza Dolls. FabuLingua. Healthy Hip Hop. Kayhan Space Corp.
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iOS 14.6 now available with new Apple Podcasts subscriptions
The Verge
MAY 24, 2021
update today, and it’s largely focused on audio improvements. This new OS update will allow Apple Music subscribers to enable lossless audio or Dolby Atmos once it’s available next month , and it also debuts Apple Podcasts subscriptions. Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge. Apple is releasing its latest iOS 14.6
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Fiverr now lets gig workers train AI on their own work and sell it
Mashable Tech
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Now gig workers are forced to compete with generative AI — often trained on their own work – which can code, write, create images, audio, and video, and doesn't need to sleep or eat. The program will be available in categories including voiceover, songwriting, graphic design, copywriting, and marketing.
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Windows 11’s latest preview introduces first Teams integration
The Verge
JULY 20, 2021
In this first stage, you’ll be able to sign in, add contacts, and connect via individual and group chats,” he said. Over the coming weeks, we will enable audio and video calling, meetings, screen sharing and other capabilities.” He also noted that Chat will roll out first to a “subset” of Insiders.
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Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother
The Verge
APRIL 26, 2021
Making sure elders can keep in contact with children and grandchildren has never been more important in a time of global lockdown. They then press and hold a button to record audio and speak into the integrated microphone. The Yayagram looks and works like an old-fashioned physical phone switchboard. Twitter: @mrcatacroquer.
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The search for good web conferencing
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 17, 2007
15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP. It’s $.24
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Apple HomePod mini review: playing small ball
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. As a result, the HomePod didn’t really take off.
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Skit raises $23M Series B round led by WestBridge Capital to accelerate its growth
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot.
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Apple WWDC 2020: the 18 biggest announcements
The Verge
JUNE 22, 2020
It can help you find contacts, search on the web, or serve as a Launchpad-like function to launch apps. Apple is updating the software running on AirPods to let them connect automatically to whichever paired device starts playing audio. The AirPods Pro are getting spatial audio. GIF: Apple. Image: Apple.
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The big takeaways from Samsung’s Unpacked announcements
The Verge
AUGUST 6, 2020
Me again: Google is returning to having humans analyze and rate anonymized audio snippets from its users. However, it’s also taken the major step of automatically opting every single user out of the setting that allows Google to store their audio. Google is sending a complicated privacy email to everyone — here’s what it means.
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