The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Google is no longer manufacturing the Google Home Max, its smart speaker designed with high-quality sound in mind, and it has sold out of the product on the Google Store, the company tells The Verge. We’ll continue to offer software updates and security fixes to Google Home Max devices.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 13, 2021

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

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Along the way, nonprofits need a service that offers a low barrier to entry, prioritizes user experience, and provides exceptional video and sound quality. What’s more, organizers can create and share audio and video recordings, making it a powerful tool for hosting board meetings, fundraising events, staff events, and more.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 5, 2020

With better sound quality, a sleeker design and a more affordable price, the Google Nest Audio improves on the original Google Home in every possible way.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Android phones can now notify you when they detect certain sounds, which could notify people who are deaf or hard of hearing about important sounds nearby. Other devices support Sound Notifications as well, including Wear OS devices, which can send Sound Notifications via text notifications with vibrations. Baby sounds.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Image: Google. Google Meet’s new AI-powered background noise cancellation has started rolling out, VentureBeat reports. Google announced the feature back in April for its G Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers. It’s coming to the web first, with iOS and Android following later.

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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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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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Digital Trends

JUNE 8, 2022

Google Slides is a cloud-friendly alternative for creating your slideshow quickly — but adding audio is more complicated. Here's how to add sound to a slide!

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2021

Just like the Move, it will support voice commands for either Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Like the pricier, larger Move, Sonos is building its Auto Trueplay audio tuning feature right into the Roam. Sound Swap” will let you pass off music from the Roam to another Sonos speaker.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Alongside some brand-new functionality like Adaptive Sound, which “improves the sound quality of your phone speaker based on your surroundings,” the December drop is also bringing many of the latest software features from the Pixel 5, 4A 5G, and 4A to older devices; Google says the Pixel 3 and newer will be included.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It’s a 360-degree speaker that has the Google Assistant built in to handle queries and tasks, and Acer says it’s one of the first smart speakers to have DTS sound. With that, it should be especially suited to offer a cinematic sound. At $109, it’s just $10 more than Google’s new Nest Audio smart speaker.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Sit quietly for a moment and pay attention to the different sounds around you. These are all noises Cochlear.ai , a Seoul-based sound recognition startup, is training its SaaS platform to identify. will use its Series A on hiring over the next 18 months and to increase the dataset of sounds used to train its deep learning algorithms.

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Engadget

APRIL 11, 2025

Google is back with another entry-level smartphone, the Pixel 9a. With more AI smarts, a new hardware design, and the biggest battery on any Pixel yet, on paper, it sounds good. Samsung Samsungs Ballie will go on sale in the US and South Korea this summer and will now pack Googles Gemini AI model. and sluggish charging.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Google goes back to its old tricks, mostly for the better The amount of effort Google seems to put into its Pixel phones while simultaneously ensuring that they look and feel mundane never ceases to astonish me. The Google Pixel 5 in “sorta sage” green. The bottom speaker sounds much better than the panel audio speaker.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 31, 2022

Enhance your presentation with a little sound. Here’s how to add audio to Google Slides for sound or narration as well as video from YouTube or the web.

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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

JUNE 3, 2021

The $99 Pixel Buds are a better buy than their pricier predecessors With the new, awkwardly named Pixel Buds A-Series, Google is trying to do more than merely introduce a much cheaper set of true wireless earbuds: the company wants to get it right this time — and get it right for under $100. In several ways, Google has succeeded at its goal.

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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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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

Google pushed out a significant firmware update to its Pixel Buds this week, adding several new features to the true wireless earbuds including a “bass boost” setting, sharing detection (so you can individually set volume for each earbud when sharing one of them with someone), attention alerts, and more. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We evaluate the 4th gen Amazon Echo and the new Google Nest Audio smart speakers to find out which device has superior looks, features, and sound quality.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Papercup’s existing angel investors include William Tunstall-Pedoe, the founder of Evi Technologies — the company acquired by Amazon to create Alexa — and Zoubin Ghahramani, former chief scientist and VP of AI at Uber and now part of the Google Brain leadership team. Morgan Freeman, but in German).

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Kishi supports both Razer Phones, the Google Pixel 2 and newer, Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and newer (excluding the S20 Ultra), and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and newer. Playing audio from your phone can be a struggle, too. Razer isn’t to blame for the audio lag, though it mostly counteracts the bonus of having lag-free controls.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Two of Google’s products that will almost certainly be announced next week have seen their packaging leak. There’s an upcoming Nest Audio smart speaker, spotted on Walmart’s shelves and online at Lowe’s. Meanwhile, someone else got their hands on a new TV dongle called the Chromecast with Google TV. sound off) new chromecast?

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The headline features coming to the WH-1000XM5 headphones, WF-1000XM5 earbuds, and LinkBuds S are Google's Find My Device and Fast Pair technologies alongside Auto Switch functionality. To sweeten the pot, Sony has revamped its audio app with a fresh coat of paint and a new moniker: "Sound Connect." Read Entire Article

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In our review of Google’s $99 Nest Audio speaker , we wrote that it’s “unfortunate that you can’t use two Nest Audio speakers paired with a Chromecast for home theater audio, like you can do with a couple of Amazon Echo speakers and a Fire TV.”. Photo: Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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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. Google is also adding features to Live Transcribe , Bluetooth support to Sound Amplify, and better navigation options to Voice Access. The biggest one is the final, public release of Action Blocks.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From premium options like the AirPods Pro 2, which combine sleek design with impressive active noise cancellation, to models that prioritize exceptional sound quality, theres a pair of Bluetooth earbuds for everyone. Some earbuds even offer app settings to tweak the audio profiles or firmware updates to improve performance over time.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JULY 16, 2011

Thanks to the inspiration of my nptech colleague Joel Remigio , I am now experimenting with a Google Voice phone number! 3) I don't like listening to voice mail , because the messages always sound garbled to me. But Google Voice intrigues me, because it automatically transcribes the. And now for the downside.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 7, 2022

Roku, Google TV, and Android TV now have the capability for 5.1 surround sound via YouTube TV. Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and others are still waiting.

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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 sounds so unbelievably obvious, but it makes sense. So in October of this year, we launched the Associations Thrive podcast. What do successful organizations all have in common?

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2021

Google says it’s aware of a problem with Pixel 4A 5G touchscreens and is working on a fix. In the meantime, Google advises users to work around the issue with some specific instructions on tapping navigation controls: 1. Google’s January patch did address a raft of other Pixel 4A 5G bugs and quirks with the security update.

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The Verge

MARCH 2, 2022

Over the past year or so, Google has been buying up several audio hardware startups, according to a recent report from Protocol. Google is no stranger to the world of audio products. It’s sold multiple models and generations of wireless earbuds , and it brands its Nest Audio smart speaker as being “all about sound.”

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