TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

” “Language models will form the backbone of our digital economy, and we want everyone to have a voice in their design,” the Stability AI team wrote in a blog post on the company’s site. ” Stability AI releases ChatGPT-like language models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Captions on a voice tweet. Twitter is now rolling out captions for voice tweets, the company announced Thursday. Twitter first launched voice tweets in June 2020 , but they were quickly criticized at the time by accessibility advocates for not having captions. Image: Twitter.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Video and audio recordings are all well and good, but a text version of your meeting can be a lot easier to search if you’re looking for that one specific bit of data inside of an hour’s worth of conversation. There are a number of third-party apps out there that provide AI transcribing for recorded audio, such as Rev and Otter.ai.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Auto captions will be available globally on iOS, Android, and the web in “most languages,” according to Twitter. The company was heavily criticized for launching voice tweets in 2020 without captions, and it came to light soon after that Twitter didn’t have a dedicated accessibility team at the time.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Synthetic speech tech startup Murf gives a voice, literally, to content creators of all sizes. Murf, which now has a library of more than 120 human-parity AI voices across 20 languages, announced today it has raised $10 million Series A funding led by Matrix partners. Murf’s founders.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Given its been nearly six years since the original, there are understandably substantial improvements to audio quality and battery life, as well as the addition of active noise cancellation (ANC). That component assists with everything from heart-rate monitoring to Spatial Audio and ANC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. “[The models] show strong ASR results in ~10 languages.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Daily Crunch: YouTube rolls out support for dubbing videos in more than 40 languages by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Sarah has more. “Towns” hall crier : Taylor writes about Houseparty founder Ben Rubin’s new open source group chat app called Towns. What happens when you accidentally hit the wrong button?

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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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Engadget

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The new AI features are made possible with support for Qualcom's on-device Gen AI support , allowing voice-activated assistants, background noise reduction during calls and more. new features include lossless audio and a triple ISP that will allow phones to take photos and record videos simultaneously.

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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. Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification.

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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. . Image Credits: Neosapience.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The promise of AI in this domain, specifically natural language processing , is speeding up the task by creating human-sounding dubs across multiple languages. Beyond the custom translations that it creates for customers, Papercup offers a catalog of voices with “realistic” tones and emotions.

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

My transcribing experience is usually a matter of downloading the video or audio associated with a meeting, provided someone thought to record it (and I know who that someone was), then uploading that file to a service like Otter and waiting 10-15 minutes while it processes. The open beta goes live today.

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2012

Use the right language. Every bit of content should showcase your school’s mission and voice. Allow users to consume information in multiple ways – video, imagery, text, interactivity and audio. Your young alumni may want a way to get involved without having to donate money in a down economy…are you giving them opportunities?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The ability to generate fresh content via algorithms has been thrust into the public consciousness by the likes of ChatGPT , a chatbot-style technology trained on large language models (LLMs) capable of producing essays, poems, lyrics, news articles, and even computer programs. As for deployment, companies can access Tavus in two main ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Narrators were recording digital audio books in both English and Hindi while I was there. I'll have a ton more to say about Indian languages over the next few days! and people start getting access to English language books in 2007. As you might imagine, this is very exciting stuff for me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

A lot of speech-to-text technologies use natural language processing (NLP) to take a qualified guess at what someone is saying. What I mean by that is things like voice, intonation, speech, content, accent, we can work with fillers, like uhms, and aahs. The interesting part is that this is language and accent independent.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Speech recognition has gone from convenient to crucial over the last few years as smart speakers and driving assist modes have taken off — but not everyone’s voice is recognized equally well. for African American voices compared to Google (68.7%) and Amazon (68.6%),” the company wrote in its press release.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

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

JUNE 3, 2021

Google never managed to get the two Pixel Buds connected as reliably as many competitors, and some owners still complain of audio dropouts even after numerous firmware updates. Both the antenna and chipset architectures were optimized for stronger transmission power and increased range to avoid cross-body audio dropouts.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon’s preexisting products without the AZ1 send both the audio and its corresponding interaction to the cloud to be processed and back. Comparatively, these new ones that have the AZ1 built in can handle the audio on-device, thus limiting the amount of time it takes to give users a response.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Posted by Arsha Nagrani and Paul Hongsuck Seo, Research Scientists, Google Research Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a well-established technology that is widely adopted for various applications such as conference calls, streamed video transcription and voice commands. LibriSpeech ).

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Read is also releasing its Meeting Summary feature, which combines its sentiment analysis tools with OpenAI’s GPT language models to produce meeting summaries that are annotated with sentiment and engagement scores. The app is also compatible with other video conferencing platform such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

He goes on to say Spotify spoke with Rogan and his team about “some of the content in his show, including his history of using some racially insensitive language.” We should have clear lines around content and take action when they are crossed, but cancelling voices is a slippery slope,” he writes.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Google is also adding features to Live Transcribe , Bluetooth support to Sound Amplify, and better navigation options to Voice Access. It works via Google Assistant, so anything you can ask for with your voice can be typed in. Android’s Sound Amplify feature lets people use their phones to amplify and clarify audio.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Another of the platform’s systems synthesizes speech in situations where an audio recording of a name isn’t available. At a high level, Namecoach shows name pronunciations both user-generated and drawn from a database of audio name pronunciations.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Clubhouse took off last year and spurred competitors to add their own voice chat rooms that can host hundreds if not thousands of people. This makes it unusable for deaf people and difficult to use for people who are hard of hearing or struggle with audio processing. Twitter Spaces.

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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

JULY 30, 2021

It can be overwhelming, especially if you’re used to quickly scanning information with your eyes, to hear a synthetic voice clunkily rattle off usernames, timestamps, and like counts as though they’re all equally important as the actual content of the post. But I didn’t know that because there’s no audio indication.”. “A

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

You can use short audio files uploaded from your phone and save voice messages as notification tones from a chat. Telegram says it currently supports audio files and voice messages under 300KB and less than five seconds long. In a new update , Telegram announced it’s letting users set any sound as their notification tone.

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