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. 46 percent of users have played a voice prompt.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App. After all, many countries, including the USA, already spend billions subsidizing agriculture and other industries. Every citizen has the potential not only to have a voice in how the food world is shaped, but real power in using that voice.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2021

Facebook is going all in on audio. The company announced multiple products on Monday that emphasize voice content over text, images, or video. Most notably, Facebook is indeed launching a competitor to the buzzy social audio app Clubhouse with a feature called Live Audio Rooms, which will be available this summer.

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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 rise in virtual meetings — often in noisy places like, you know, homes — has led to significant uptake across multiple industries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Buzzy “social audio” app Clubhouse has raised a Series C funding round, reportedly valuing the company at $4 billion. Indeed, Vox reported that Facebook will announce a series of “social audio” products only today. But, unusually for such a late stage of funding, the company has not revealed the amount raised.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

While some have argued that ChatGPT signals AI’s arrival into the mainstream , the truth of the matter is we’re just at the start of a new era of AI-powered applications that will transform just about every facet of industry — from consumer search and stock photography , to real estate and content marketing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Traditional voice-based call center service is difficult and costly. 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.

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2012

Every bit of content should showcase your school’s mission and voice. Avoid industry jargon and acronyms. Allow users to consume information in multiple ways – video, imagery, text, interactivity and audio. Use the right language. Know that writing is an art…AND a science. Is your school’s unique story clear?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The company was founded in 2017 by a team of six music and audio research scientists, including Han, who completed his PhD in music information retrieval at Seoul National University. “We have to take care about all different frequency ranges, and there are not only voices, but really thousands of sounds out there,” Han said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Podcasting is projected to be a $1 billion industry this year , with more than 118 million Americans tuning in each month in 2021. Spotify’s podcast creation tool Anchor gains access to the company’s larger audio ad network. White-label voice assistants will win the battle for podcast discovery.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. You’ll take a while before you find your legs - get started hearing your voice and get feedback before you launch into the field. existing and target. about 50/50 male/female. Production.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

EssilorLuxottica , for instance, has come up with a winning formula for smart glasses in both the Meta Ray-Bans and its Nuance Audio hearing aids, which pack just enough technology to avoid looking uncool. Open earbuds are an area of increasing interest for audio brands, though none has put quite the same emphasis on all-day comfort.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

The company is expanding on its voice control features today with a beta launch of voice-activated ads, after initially testing the feature last year. Only listeners who already hear ads will be offered the voice-activated ones, which ask the listener to agree to hear additional brand content. They have to say “yes” to initiate.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It’s reasonable to want Apple to not benefit from clearly harmful voices, but the incident speaks to how unprepared the podcast industry is to moderate: companies face huge challenges in even finding infringing content, and there’s little to no transparency from the big players in how they monitor the listings in their apps.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In the customer service industry, your accent dictates many aspects of your job. It slots right into the OS’s sound stack so it works out of the box with pretty much any audio or video calling tool. While many undergo accent neutralization training, Sanas is a startup with another approach (and a $5.5 Image Credits: Sanas.ai.

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AccelEvents

OCTOBER 21, 2020

These studios are fully equipped with all the video, audio, and tools needed to create a virtual presentation with extremely high production values. This means that they can oversee each element of your event, controlling the audio and visual components. What is a Virtual Event Venue? Increased Audience Engagement.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s an industrial work of art, the smartest scooter on the planet, and a full on urban assault vehicle,” Unagi CEO David Hyman told The Verge. According to Hyman, Béhar “took over” Unagi’s industrial design team after investing a chunk of money in the company. It’s all done with Google Voice over the audio system at a visual display.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

iHeartMedia, the company behind podcasts like Stuff You Should Know and hundreds of radio stations across the US, announced today that it’s spending $230 million to acquire a platform many people outside the audio industry have likely never heard of: Triton Digital. Photo by Alix Diaconis / The Verge.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Using the brands new suite of tools, creators can turn a written prompt into a video clip, convert an existing image into a video, and even translate audio and video into multiple different languages. Firefly Video Model is Adobes answer to existing video models like Open AIs Sora and Metas new Movie Gen.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Why it bought an audiobook company Last week, Spotify announced plans to spend an undisclosed amount of money to acquire Findaway, an audiobook creation and distribution company that plays a major role in the industry. Audiobooks often involve a narrator, if not actors, audio clips, and more.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Bowers and Wilkins’ debut pair of noise cancelling true wireless earbuds, the PI7, fix one of the key annoyances with the form-factor — it’s usable with in-flight entertainment systems because the case doubles as an audio transmitter. The earbuds themselves have a modest battery life of 4 hours (compared to 4.5

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

AR has populated science fiction, specialized industries, and high-tech experiments for decades. Their images and audio can blend with or compensate for normal sensory perception of the world, rather than being confined to a discrete, self-contained screen. But it’s also a chance to deliberately reset how we approach computing.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Enough about my SAD, though, and more on audio. Unfortunate for those who don’t want to switch, but this is just how the industry operates right now. Of course, music is audio, but why do we care about this move here? Well, for one, multiple platforms see livestreaming audio as a business opportunity. Summer’s last gasp.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The “workplace” would have a variety of rooms created by the employees that would be organized spaces for audio-first collaboration that include screenshare, video, games or spatial features. “We Safreno says the world has “undergone the biggest change in the way people work since the Industrial Revolution.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

To help you find the right show for your interests, we’ve compiled our audio output from the week. There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Now, nearly 10 years later, Olive has raised $856.3 Chain Reaction.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There is also some talk that this could turn the Internet into something of a 'caste system', in which certain users would have to pay more if they want to continue using streaming video or streaming audio. Most industry observers expect a long and protracted legal battle ahead. So what can you do? Become educated on the issue.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

You can be extremely search engine friendly without putting limitations on video, audio, or depth of social media reach. When it comes to internet marketing, blogs, social media, gifting, videos, forums, how-to documentation, product discovery, industry research, and even newsletters and idea banks, Luminate Online can deliver.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Beasts’ Night media, Spotify’s first CMO Sophia Bendz, Cyan Banister, artist T-Pain and music industry veteran Zach Katz, among others. Henriquez said that anyone involved in the creation of an audio clip or song on the app gets an equal cut, so the beat-maker would get 50% of any profit, and the singer would get 50%. Right now, mayk.it

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to research by the Ukrainian tech industry itself, there are about 228,000 members of the tech industry in Ukraine today, with the main tech hubs being located in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Odesa. Thankfully, the wider tech industry has rallied around Ukraine in the last year. Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Dont expect anything from the big players like OpenAI the company isnt registered as an exhibitor but with artificial intelligence being the trendy thing in the industry right now, everyone will be trying to cash in on the hype; in fact, AI+ is one of the main themes of MWC 2025.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

AI-powered text-, art- and audio-generating systems will soon make — and already are making — their way into the tools people use every day, from programming environments and spellcheck plugins to concept art creation platforms. If software is eating the world, AI isn’t far behind. and its intellectual property.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice.

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TechNode

AUGUST 22, 2023

Li Autos chief executive Li Xiang launched a series of business startup courses on Chinese audio content platform Dedao on Monday. On the online education platform, some influential users have voiced their support for Li Auto and its founder.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Its software is industry-agnostic and can be applied to a variety of industries, including home services, telecom, solar energy, pharma, insurance, CPG, payments and retail. It’s really difficult to process audio in person at scale in an accurate way,” said Bienen. The firm has quietly backed over 40 companies in the U.S.,

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Those who do video work can get the industry-leading Premiere Pro for $20.99 It’s missing some features of the web client — namely, voice and video calling. Not only does Discord provide text chat, but it’s also super easy to set up voice channels, which are convenient and generally stable. a month or Nitro for $9.99 Your Phone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. “Their story on how they want to disrupt the speaker industry just makes so much sense! Image Credits: Mayht.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The improvements are minor but worth the extra cash The tech industry sure has put a lot of hype behind descriptors like “max” over the last few years. And you also get a newer Alexa voice remote in the box with app shortcuts and a handy shortcut to live TV programming. So when Amazon announced the $54.99

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