NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Amid a pivotal moment in computing where groundbreaking AI models and a global developer community are driving an explosion in AI-powered tools and workflows NIM microservices, AI Blueprints and G-Assist are helping bring key innovations to PCs. 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Audio startup Syng has been building on quite a bit more hype than the average fresh hardware startup, largely because of the team behind it. The company has now raised $50 million to date to build out an audio hardware startup with a hefty focus on design and advanced tech. Image Credits: Syng.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 12, 2025

Opus Major has raised $10 million in funding to build a global game studio dedicated to crafting games and entertainment. Read More

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Our goal is to be a global leader in providing AI voices that touches people’s hearts and emotions. The global text to speech (TTS) market is estimated at $3 billions, with the global voiceover market at around $10 billion, according to Lee. The Global TTS market is projected to increase $5.61 billion by 2028 from $1.94

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

YouTube Music is launching a new TikTok-style short-form personalized video feed called “Samples,” the company announced on Monday. Each clip in the feed offers a glimpse into the artist, music video and feel of a song recommended to you. “Friends and family is always number one. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The other is the recently adopted Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled – an international copyright treaty that would make a copyright exception for people with disabilities a global norm and allow sharing of accessible books across national borders.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Look at who got into audio and podcasting this year. Twitter, an app already reliant on you reading it, launched its live audio product Spaces — a way for you to interact without actually having to look at the screen. Same with any of the live audio launches this year.) I view this year as one in which the groundwork was laid.

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The Verge

APRIL 2, 2021

The live audio app launched during a pandemic; gained more than 10 million downloads for an invite-only, iOS-only app; and succeeded to the point that most every social platform wants to copy it. And social audio is shaping up to go that way. Social audio will likely follow the same trajectory as stories. Congrats to Clubhouse.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Hot Pod Summit is the invite-only industry conference for the people building the future of the audio industry. It will kick off On Air Fest, the audio industry’s premier cultural festival, featuring Jad Abumrad, Chuck D, Dr. Jane Goodall, and more. Spotify is reportedly the top music streaming app. Buy your tickets here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Animoto :: animoto.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. It’s possible to add live entertainment to your fundraising events, and it doesn’t have to be just music. Quizzes based on music, TV shows, or sports are also frequently well received. 9) Movie screenings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. Here’s a list of dance music.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It’s December 1st, which for Spotify users, means the annual tradition of the music streaming service’s Spotify Wrapped roundup : customized, flashy infographics of the top songs, playlists, artists, and podcast that you’ve listened to over the last year, chock-full of data, mood boards, and just a sprinkling of judgment. This is fine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Animoto :: animoto.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Whether you want to display your work on a local, national, or global map, this is a visually-compelling new way to tell your nonprofit’s story. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Creative tasks, like creating music, drawing new pictures, or creating videos. In MaxViT, a multi-axis attention mechanism conducts blocked local and dilated global attention sequentially followed by a FFN , with only a linear complexity. VDTTS displays the audio predicted using both the video frames and the text as input.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Enough about my SAD, though, and more on audio. Twitch and Warner Music Group will launch exclusive music channels. Warner Music Group and Twitch reached an agreement that’ll bring some of the music giant’s artists to Twitch through new channels, as well as exclusive original programming on the livestreaming platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When you start playing music, the first thing that you are going to notice are the two woofers that are set up in a ‘push-push’ configuration to avoid unwanted vibrations. There are some built-in buttons that let you pause the music, change the volume, activate Bluetooth and more. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

MusicLM At I/O, we launched MusicLM, a text-to-music model that generates 20 seconds of music from a text prompt. MusicLM, which consists of models powered by AudioLM and MuLAN , can make music (from text, humming, images or video) and musical accompaniments to singing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

BBG got its start initially developing its own products and selling them on Amazon and other marketplaces — founder and CEO Peter Chaljawski was a DJ in a previous life and started with a focus on audio equipment he developed for himself. BBG says it has access to some 1.5 and Asia. .

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

IRL is also starting to experiment with allowing groups to charge for access to for things like tutoring or music lessons, though it hasn’t rolled the feature out broadly. The pressure is to become a global phenomena as quickly as possible”. The pressure is to become a global phenomena as quickly as possible.”.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

British audio manufacturer Chord has announced a successor to the excellent Mojo , a battery-powered accessory that aims to improve the sound of your wired headphones or speakers when paired with your phone, laptop, tablet, or other digital media source. It’s available globally starting today. Image: Chord. Image: Chord. Image: Chord.

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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. They let you create big, customized buttons for relatively complex actions like playing music or calling somebody — tasks that might be difficult for people with a cognitive disability.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The G3x also includes the company’s Snapdragon Sound platform, which is designed to improve audio quality when you listen to music with supported wireless headphones. This is not a Razer hardware announcement,” Justin Cooney, Razer’s director of global partnerships, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

It will make it illegal to pay people to write a fake review, and platforms that fail to address these could be fined up to 10% of their global annual turnover. Apple is launching DJ mixes in spatial audio with Dolby Atmos on Apple Music. Startups and VC. IBM’s first-quarter earnings look good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

I love the photos, but I think you can better visually demonstrate the ideas expressed in the reasons - For example, "Blogging Connects Us To Global Conversations" - Why not a screenshot of Globals or this photo for example example, although it is all rights reserved, but you could ask permission).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Global-e files to go public as e-commerce startups enjoy a renaissance. Global-e, an e-commerce platform that helps online sellers reach global consumers, filed to go public on Tuesday. Global-e files to go public as e-commerce startups enjoy a renaissance. There have never been more $100M+ fintech rounds than right now.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Yet, for all those bets, just three seem to have achieved a collective and hysterical frenzy in the industry as we close out this year: a bet on the future of media, a bet on the future of (audio) media, and a bet on the future of one of America’s greatest cities. Substack, Clubhouse, and Miami as a major tech hub are compelling bets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

My teacher and I couldn’t bring the tools we needed into the online lesson — things like a metronome, a PDF viewer for notes and sheet music, a media player for back tracks, a second camera to see fingerpicking, etc.,” ” Ashkenazi said in an email interview.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

By learning from global streams of publicly available videos spanning nearly every country and hundreds of languages, our AI systems will not just improve accuracy but also adapt to our fast moving world and recognize the nuances and visual cues across different cultures and regions,” said the company in a blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

Meta embraces generative AI music: Meta this week announced AudioCraft , a framework to generate what it describes as “high-quality,” “realistic” audio and music from short text descriptions, or prompts. Fortunately this was not a rogue general AI but an also-ran digital assistant whose time had come.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He added that the pandemic “provided a boost to multimedia creation and the demand for scalable audio content was growing rapidly.”. According to market reports used by Murf’s founders, the global text-speech market is expected to reach $7.06 This included creating and updating product demos and recording radio and video ads.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Instead, it developed AR projects and campaigns for brands, businesses, and other organizations, including Vogue, Carolina Herrera, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, H&M, Forever 21, Warner Music, LADBible (in partnership with KSI and Craig David), the British Army, TEDx, and several others. Image Credits: Beem app.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Reminder that if you want to keep up with all the audio news fit for a newsletter, you can subscribe here. It’s only a matter of time until we see Facebook advertising its podcast work, too, and Amazon Music, and everyone else, so get ready to see a lot more podcast-marketing ads. Insiders will get more on Thursday and Friday.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 15, 2020

Due to the global pandemic, “office life” is now seen as a fond memory, and our daily commute is a total of one minute ? Complete a major task, then give yourself a 10 to 15 minute break to get up and walk around the house, listen to some music or grab a snack, and then get back to work. I was so excited to be able to work from home ?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Earlier this week, Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim took a look at global venture capital , finding that later-stage investments are declining. This follows last week’s test of an “ audio news feed ” for podcasts. The news follows yesterday’s story that discussed what happened at Better.com’s December meeting where it laid off 900 employees.

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