TechSpot

MAY 29, 2023

For a few years now, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been sending takedown requests to Google for the company to remove YouTube ripping sites, which allow, among other things, audio to be ripped from YouTube videos and saved as music files. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

Google is opening up applications to a new program for developers of media apps that lets them keep more of what they earn — paying a lower 15 percent commission to Google in exchange for supporting certain platforms and features ( via 9to5Google ). Google has mirrored other Apple olive branches to developers as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Smart speakers are voice-activated digital assistants that enable users to use their voice to command a wide variety of activities, such as play music, listen to news, make calls, watch video clips, shop online, and control smart home devices (thermostats, home alarm systems, lights, smart TVs, etc.). Voice-commerce is on the rise.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Roku Streambar features four internal speakers that can reportedly fill a room with Dolby Audio. Clever audio settings also allow you to automatically lower loud commercials, increase speech clarity, add depth to music and optimize sound for night listening. The unit is controllable via Alexa and Google Assistant devices.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Sonos has filed another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging that the search giant is infringing five wireless audio patents across the entire line of Nest and Chromecast products. Google, of course, says it will fight back; it has countersued Sonos in the initial case. Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Earlier today, Sony announced that it would be releasing two new speakers compatible with 360 Reality Audio, its spatial audio technology that replicates the feel of live music by placing different sounds and vocals in a virtual sphere around you. It’s also certified for High-Resolution Audio. Sony’s SRS-RA5000 speaker.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Posted by Zalán Borsos, Research Software Engineer, and Marco Tagliasacchi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The recent progress in generative AI unlocked the possibility of creating new content in several different domains, including text, vision and audio. In the case of audio, neural audio codecs (e.g.,

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Google's Pixel phones include numerous thoughtful features you don't get on other phones, like Now Playing. This feature can identify background music from the lock screen, but unlike some similar song identifiers , it works even without an Internet connection. Sadly, it has been broken for months. There is some hope, though.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As this is being written, we are still in the midst of the Spotify controversy , during which artists are abandoning the audio service in protest of that company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan. Neil Young was the first to pull his music from the service, followed by Joni Mitchell and others. Amazon Music. Amazon Music.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

YouTube Music is lifting one of its most annoying limitations — but only in Canada. Today, YouTube announced that beginning November 3rd, customers in Canada will be able to continue listening to their music in the background while doing other tasks on their phone or when the screen is off. Music lovers rejoice!

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Google has announced that it has 50 million users subscribed to or trying YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, which is a marked increase from the 30 million subscribers it reported in December 2020. However, its blog post spends a lot of time talking about music, hailing YouTube as the fastest-growing music-subscription service.

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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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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research, on behalf of the Google Research community Today we kick off a series of blog posts about exciting new developments from Google Research. Please keep your eye on this space and look for the title “Google Research, 2022 & Beyond” for more articles in the series.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 million in a Series A funding led by Progress Ventures , joined by Accomplice and Google Assistant Investments. The upshot is that this AI-fueled voice ad could be coming to an audio stream near you soon.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Amazon’s Echo Studio speaker, which supports Sony’s 360 Reality Audio format. Sony has announced an expansion of its 360 Reality Audio platform , bringing the 360-degree music format to more devices and media as well as offering new creation tools. Now, Sony is expanding the audio tech into video.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2022

Market share for the world’s largest music streaming services. Spotify was the largest music streaming service in the world as of the second quarter of 2021 with a market share of 31 percent, with Apple Music in second place at 15 percent, and Amazon Music and Tencent Music each tied at third with 13 percent apiece.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The US International Trade Commission has ruled that Google is in violation of five Sonos patents relating to smart speakers ( via The New York Times ). The decision affirms a judge’s ruling in August , and it’s the kind of decision that could theoretically force Google to stop importing products using the infringing technology.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 13, 2021

Want a little more oomph in your music, or need to get that bass rumbling? Here's how to adjust sound settings on Nest Audio.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

Posted by James Manyika, SVP Google Research and Technology & Society, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research Wednesday, May 10th was an exciting day for the Google Research community as we watched the results of months and years of our foundational and applied work get announced on the Google I/O stage.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr The PDF to podcast AI Blueprint will transform documents into audio content so users can learn on the go. Get started with these NIM microservices today: Language and Reasoning: Deepseek-R1-distill-llama-8B , Mistral-nemo-12B-instruct , Llama3.1-8B-instruct

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

The podcast is available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon Music and Stitcher (you have no reason not to listen!). This year, we thought, “Why not showcase what associations and nonprofits are doing, regardless of whether or not they’re clients, and why not do it through a podcast for greater reach?”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Google kills Hangouts : We knew it was coming, but this week Google put the final nail in Hangouts’ coffin, shutting down the chat-focused web app (the Hangouts Android/iOS apps were shuttered last year) in favor of Google Chat. ” audio roundup. Whats up in TC podcast land this week?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Pixel 5A leads the charge in a variety of early Black Friday deals from Google. Google is holding onto most of its deals from Black Friday , and there’s a lot to like if you’re in the market for a Pixel, Chromecast, or Nest device. Google even advertises these deals as running until December 1st, a few days after Cyber Monday.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Highnote launched to the public today, allowing musicians, podcasters, and other creators to collaborate on audio files by recording voice notes directly over a track, making timestamped reactions, and creating polls to get opinions. Highnote also announced its pre-seed funding round of $1.7 Highnote changes that.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Apple launches a new service : Sarah writes that Apple is launching a music streaming service focused exclusively on classical music. with advertisers and social media giants like Facebook, Google and TikTok. audio Looking for quality listening material from experts in their fields? million patients in the U.S.

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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. It doesn’t yet.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Apple’s newest smart speaker is way more affordable but still chasing Amazon and Google Two and a half years ago, Apple finally entered the smart speaker market with the HomePod. It will glow white when music is playing or green when you’re using the mini as a speakerphone for calls. HomePod mini sound quality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

This tool is a simple way to create graphics of inspirational quotes or powerful stats that can then also be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Google+. Quozio is a simple tool that enables to create images of quotes that can be uploaded to Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Google Wallet :: google.com/wallet.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge’s preeminent audio industry newsletter. As for its plans, Spotify says it’ll bring Podsights’ tech to its “audio ads within music, video ads, and display ads.” The move to sync audio and video together on one app is already happening, and it’s on Spotify, not YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

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. 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. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These compact devices also now offer features that rival traditional, over-ear headphones, which can make them the go-to choice for music lovers, commuters, gym-goers and many in between. And remember: audio companies arent perfect, so despite lots of research, the earbud shape they decided on may not fit you well.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Infinite Bad Guy” featuring Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” music video. Google/YouTube. In celebration of its music video passing 1 billion views, YouTube and Google Creative Lab have turned all of those covers into an interactive AI experiment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

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. 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. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“So if somebody swings a car door open in a bike lane, you’re going to get a very loud warning over the audio system along with a visual warning.”. Customers can put a destination into the Unagi app, which connects to Google Maps through an API, and get turn-by-turn audio and visual directions while they ride. “You

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The new HomePod mini features an Apple S5 chip, which Apple says allows for “computational audio” processing to adjust how your music sounds 180 times per second. Multiple HomePod mini speakers can also play music in sync, and “intelligently” create stereo pairing when placed in the same room. The HomePod mini will cost $99.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As you can imagine, the people here at The Verge spend a lot of time listening to a variety of digital sounds — whether it’s online meetings, music, podcasts, videos, or sound checks of their own multimedia productions. AudioQuest’s Dragonfly portable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) brings higher-quality audio to your devices.

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