Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

The soft leather cups don’t pinch or sweat, and they look sleek enough that people assume you’re either important or know things about audio. If you’re an Alexa person, these come with built-in voice control. It’s all fair game. Price: $249.99 $399.99

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Generative AI is unlocking new capabilities for PCs and workstations, including game assistants, enhanced content-creation and productivity tools and more. Project G-Assist showcases how AI assistants can enhance apps and games. 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips — which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. Dank audio memes anyone?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

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. It’s faster to respond to voice commands, and most importantly, it sounds a lot better than the Google Home ever could.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. “The real game changer is that a small advertiser can run a great-quality ad in a minute or two,” Wedel said, pointing out the potential for localization and personalization.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. The fact that Discord can instantly drop you into a voice chat in a browser? WebRTC helps power that.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe’s idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone’s personality, not their appearance. You then record a voice clip to tell others about yourself and what you’re looking for in a partner. Image Credits: SwoonMe.

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Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

The company also reaffirmed that the upcoming console will be backwards compatible with Switch games. They have larger SL and SR buttons (the ones hidden when the Joy-Con are attached) to make playing multiplayer games on individual Joy-Cons more feasible. Looking to catch up on everything we know about the Switch 2?

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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. He decided to try using the same tech — not for coding, but for playing games. “I

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

based AI startup that has developed speech technology that translates people’s voices into other languages and is already being used in the video and television industry, has raised £8 million in funding. Most of the world’s video and audio content is shackled to a single language,” says Papercup co-founder and CEO Shemen.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. Could an AI-driven voice in your ear help close that gap, if only a bit? Hell, what changed in that “minor update” that flashed across your screen as you were booting up the game? In my chat with him, SenpAI.GG

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Earlier this year, Nvidia released RTX Voice, a beta software to process audio and suppress almost all background noise, and it worked amazingly well. Nvidia Broadcast is a follow-up to the RTX Voice beta and introduces two new AI-powered features: Virtual Background and Auto Frame. I hope the quality is this good when I try it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

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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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

Clubhouse is funding the creation of 50 audio shows made by creators on its platform. The concepts include everything from an interview series with Taryn Southern to a pair of shows discussing the culture of hairstyles to a game show called “Serial Killer Speed Dating.”. Clubhouse’s goal is to “support new voices” on its platform.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s great for Apple Arcade games that support controllers. And, for popular games like COD: Mobile that don’t have controller support switched on from the start, Backbone curates visual tutorials that appear before it launches to walk you through the steps to turn it on in the game’s settings.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2021

It can substitute for the 3.5mm audio cable that you’d normally plug into your favorite wireless headphones, immediately transforming them into a much better communication tool. For years now, I’ve been using V-Moda’s BoomPro microphone to chat with people while gaming. The best aspect of the BoomPro X is its versatility.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A few options for each platform If you’re shopping for a gaming headset, you have a lot of options. Knowing a thing or two about headphones might aid in your search, but gaming headsets have only gotten more complicated to shop for — especially the wireless ones. This is the downfall of many otherwise good gaming headsets.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Amazon is working on a new feature for its Alexa voice assistant that will let the software launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands, a first for Amazon’s assistant and a bold expansion of its strategy to position Alexa as a platform-agnostic alternative to Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant.

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The Verge

APRIL 10, 2021

Age of Empires games have always taken place against a historical backdrop, but Microsoft and Relic Entertainment want to take things even further with Age of Empires IV. The team behind the game says this is in celebration of history but also works to give players context around what they’re doing. Image: Microsoft. GIF: Microsoft.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

First reported by Game Revolution, a dataminer discovered a number of unused audio files that sound as if they were recorded by several Mortal Kombat stars— Christopher Lambert as God of Thunder Raiden, Linden Ashby as Johnny Cage, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras as Sonya Blade.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Vale: Shadow of the Crown , an audio-based adventure game by indie studio Falling Squirrel, is available on Xbox and PC today for $19.99. The game was developed in collaboration with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and made for and tested by blind and low-vision players. Image: Falling Squirrel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Facebook Pay can be used “for fundraisers, in-game purchases, event tickets, person-to-person payments, as well as purchases from select Pages and businesses on Facebook Marketplace.”.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

If you’re finding that background noise is disrupting voice or video calls made from your computer, then a new piece of software from Nvidia might help (provided you have the necessary hardware to run it). But when I turn on RTX Voice, the sound completely disappears. How to use RTX Voice to reduce background noise. or above.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence-powered voice and video technologies have been gaining steady popularity in recent years. A Korean startup called Neosapience has developed a synthetic voice and video platform, Typecast , that lets users turn text into a video without recording and editing in a studio. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

AudioQuest’s Dragonfly portable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) brings higher-quality audio to your devices. Portability is the biggest feature here — swapping between my phone and my laptop is the reason I’m recommending this for anyone who wants one gadget that will let you listen to hi-res audio on any device.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

12, the Corsair HS80 MAX wireless gaming headset is available for $79.99 Opens in a new window Credit: Corsair Corsair HS80 MAX Gaming Headset $79.99 Opens in a new window Credit: Corsair Corsair HS80 MAX Gaming Headset $79.99 Right now, the Corsair HS80 MAX wireless gaming headset is just $79.99 , down from its usual $179.99.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Almost a great gaming gadget The $199 GTW 270 Hybrid earbuds from audio company EPOS are, to my knowledge, the first truly wireless earbuds made for gaming — but the buds themselves aren’t the biggest selling point. However, there is one problem: the microphones don’t work when you’re listening to audio via the USB-C receiver.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Listen to the audio versionread by Kaplan herselfin the Next Big Idea App. They encourage employees to blend in, conform, and play the game rather than create environments where people feel safe enough to be real. Belonging uncertainty is that nagging voice in your head asking, Do I really belong here? The problem?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The soundbar also includes a pair of wireless rear speakers that can now additionally send audio to the side walls of the room, which could also increase the audio immersion. If you have a newer 4K HDR TV and a Series X or PS5, you might not want to plug your game console directly into the bar. Image: LG.

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2021

Bang & Olufsen has announced Beoplay Portal, its first wireless gaming headset. This way, you can take calls without totally detaching from game audio. The Bang & Olufsen app for iOS and Android has some new features that the Beoplay Portal benefits from, like microphone optimization and a game / chat audio balance.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

Sony has just announced two new high-end home theater audio systems, both of which include HDMI 2.1 passthrough ports that offer full support for features like 8K video, 4K gaming at 120Hz, Dolby Vision HDR, eARC, and more. That should make for excellent voice clarity. Image: Sony. First up is the HT-A7000 Dolby Atmos 7.1.2-channel

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New features coming for Google Maps, Gboard, Voice Access, Google Play Books, and Nearby Share. Google is rolling out five new Android features in the weeks ahead that enhance Maps navigation, Gboard emoji mashups, Voice Access, Google Play audiobooks, and Nearby Share file sharing. Navigating Maps using Voice Access.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many of Logitech’s previous wireless gaming headsets cost more than $100, but its latest is a relative bargain without compromising too much on comfort or features. The G435 Lightspeed looks like a traditional wireless gaming headset, except for one major omission: a boom microphone. That’s not to say it doesn’t have a mic at all.

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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. Dont be afraid to return ill-fitting earbuds for something thats more comfortable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Krisp , a startup that uses machine learning to remove background noise from audio in real time, has raised $9M as an extension of its $5M A round announced last summer. The extra money followed big traction in 2020 for the Armenian company, which grew its customers and revenue by more than an order of magnitude. Image Credits: Krisp.

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