The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon has announced the fourth-generation version of its main Echo smart speaker, bringing a new spherical design and better sound performance. But the biggest change is a new, on-device speech recognition module that will locally process your audio on the Echo itself, making your requests faster than ever before. Developing.

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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.”. With Chromecast and Google TV, Nest Audio becomes your home cinema sound system.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Per Crunchbase , the 2019 founded audio startup’s earlier seed and pre-seed investors were Mangrove Capital Partners and Redalpine. Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. “We raised $3M in late 2020. So it’s using quasi-brevity as a device to try to cut through.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

It's best for those who have a smaller living room or den they want to outfit with better TV sound. General audio quality has been improved as well, and they have a comfy fit. They support wired USB-C audio, plus they have solid ANC as well. They support wired USB-C audio, plus they have solid ANC as well.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2022

After launching Fitness Plus in December 2020, Apple has continuously added new features, including audio walks with celebrities and new workout programs for pregnant and older users. Today, it’s announcing a few more additions, with the standout being audio running experiences dubbed Time to Run.

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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. I’m back for you now, though, and we have a big issue ahead.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But a project called I Miss My Bar, via belong.io , comes the closest to making me feel like I’m at my local watering hole — loud voices, street sounds, and all. The only element missing is the trademark bar scent of booze mixed with cleaning products. You know the smell.

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Engadget

MARCH 24, 2025

It's best for those who have a smaller living room or den they want to outfit with better TV sound. Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for $250 ($150 off): These top our list of the best wireless headphones you can get right now thanks to their supreme comfort, excellent sound quality and ANC, multipoint connectivity and 30-hour battery life.

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The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

month (or local equivalent per month) and it includes ad-free videos on YouTube,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement. Speaking as someone who hates the amount of ads on YouTube, but isn’t too interested in Premium’s other features like offline downloads, Premium Lite sounds like a tempting proposition. a month in Europe.

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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. The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds clip to the side of your ear and project sound into the ear canal.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It's loaded with mini-LED backlighting, full-array local dimming, and Dolby Vision, which means your movies, games, and shows look ridiculously good. Sound is another big win here. Unlike most built-in TV speakers that sound like a tin can, the U7 has 2.1-channel channel audio with Dolby Atmos. at Amazon $2,199.99

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2021

Rode’s new app, Rode Connect, lets you record multitrack or mixed stereo audio when plugging up to four USB microphones into your computer. You can think of the app as a virtual version of Rode’s $599 hardware mixer, the Rodecaster Pro , which allows you to plug in multiple XLR microphones, play audio clips, and record locally.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Dolby Atmos: An immersive surround sound format that goes beyond previous experiences by introducing height channels, which make audio more three-dimensional. Atmos home theater systems and soundbars often include up-firing speakers to make some on-screen action sound like it’s happening overhead. The “definition” of HDMI 2.1

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It’s compatible with all the apps and services you’d expect from Roku, and it combines this with four full-range speaker drivers to fill your living room with stereo audio. Around the back, there’s an HDMI, optical audio, and USB port. Audio formats supported include PCM and Dolby Audio. Image: Roku.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Sony’s new earbuds deliver on sound, battery life, and beat all comers at noise cancellation Sony first released its WF-1000XM3 earbuds nearly two years ago, and though they offered some of the best noise cancellation and sound quality you could find at that time, a lot has changed since. WF-1000XM4 earbuds. Impressive stuff.

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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 does exactly what it sounds like, automatically transcribing speech into text — in more than one language if you like. It doesn’t yet.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

With this new product, the company is entering a new market — home cinema sound systems. We are at the high end of the market but we have a product that is an all-in-one audio system,” Devialet CEO Franck Lebouchard told me. And, sure enough, the speaker sounds great. And they want sound quality to be as good as image quality.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

That being said, making a video isn’t as simple as it sounds (and it doesn’t even sound that simple to most). Don’t Forget Audio. Once you’re actually into the production stage, don’t forget to get quality audio for your video. A great, free resource for background music is the YouTube Audio Library.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Although the localized feature-building abstraction of convolutions is a strong approach for many computer vision problems, it is not as flexible as the general attention mechanism in transformers, which can utilize both local and non-local information about the image throughout the model.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The WF-XB700s had the company’s “Extra Bass” branding, but Sony has done away with that this time for a sound that’s much more balanced out of the box. That said, they still sound very good for the price; Sony rarely skimps on audio quality. As is typical for Sony buds, the sound doesn’t disappoint.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Astell & Kern says its latest audio player is the first in the world to come with DACs from two separate manufacturers, letting you switch between them to customize the sound to your wired headphones. After picking a DAC, the sound can be customized further with a series of audio filters.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It shouldn’t be the case that there’s a “better” or “worse” accent, but in today’s global economy (though who knows about tomorrow’s) it’s valuable to sound American or British. While many undergo accent neutralization training, Sanas is a startup with another approach (and a $5.5

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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. “There is a significant mismatch between demand for localization and translation and the ability to fulfil the demand,” Shemen said. But there might be downsides.

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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. Part of Krisp’s allure is the ability to run locally and securely on many platforms with very low overhead. What office locations are noisiest?).

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The Verge

AUGUST 23, 2021

OnePlus also tosses in extras like a low-latency mode for gaming and Zen Mode Air, which plays soothing relaxation audio. There’s even the same faint little audio click in your ears whenever a pinch is registered. Thankfully the less-than-perfect seal didn’t take away from their audio quality.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

For those who can afford to throw cash at something that sounds great A $1,300 soundbar doesn’t have much room for compromises. There’s a USB port if you want to plug in a drive that contains your FLAC collection or whatever local audio you feel like playing.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

rst glance, implementing a speech synthesizer/recognizer library may seem like a relatively simple task of determining the phonetic sounds of the input and outputting a corresponding sequence of audible signals. Embedded : In an embedded mobile speech recognition or TTS, the entire process happens locally on the mobile device.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

Sound quality is nice but suddenly way less important than getting a secure fit on (or near) your ear. My top pick doesn’t have great sound, but it’s the least hassle to use while pedaling around. The audio then travels (conduces) through your literal skull into your eardrums, leaving your actual ears completely open to the world.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

After spending years as a platform for showcasing other music and audio services, Sonos entered the fray itself back in April with the launch of Sonos Radio. Sonos says the lossless audio of Sonos Radio HD makes it the highest-quality of any radio streaming service. Image: Sonos. It’s available starting today in the US and UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Check out your local camera shop for rentals and expert advice. DSLR Audio Isn’t Good. To capture better audio get a camera with a mic-in jack (these are a bit more expensive) or get a portable recorder. Either way you’ll need to add a microphone to the mix to get the best sound. Rent or Buy? Lighting Your Subjects.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Had you known about it in real time, you could have localized the intervention to just one location and had a much better outcome, saving pesticide, saving labor and saving the crop from being damaged.”. That data is turned into audio and analyzed by machine learning algorithms in the cloud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Microsoft’s built-in Windows 11 audio management still isn’t great. If you want YouTube to play out of your speakers but prefer that your game audio output on your headset, then this is the app for you. VLC for Windows. Image: VideoLan. VLC for Windows.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

To make hot-desking easier, Google is testing a workstation that remembers users’ settings, adjusting the local temperature and height and tilt of the monitor based on a worker’s card swipe. Again, some of these sound great. More outdoor work and meeting spaces, with tables and chairs in open-air tents.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

And like TCL and LG before it, the company is moving to a more precise backlighting system that uses Mini LED technology for improved contrast and greater picture quality than its previous full-array local dimming systems — and Samsung’s premium QLED LCD TVs were already impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

Jo says in email announcement, "A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes well-chosen short political sound bites can rally a cause, make us laugh, and even sway an election. com, click on "Submit Your Tone" and follow the steps on MyxerTones' site to upload their 20 second audio file." Ringtones08.com

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