The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Google’s latest smart speaker has good sound and an attractive price Four years is an eternity in the modern tech product world, but that’s exactly how long it’s been since Google’s first smart speaker, the Google Home , was released. The new Nest Audio sits between the Nest Mini and Home Max in price, size, and output.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience Late on Monday night, Apple flipped the switch on two new features for its Apple Music subscription service : immersive Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming. Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of services and the person who oversees Apple Music.

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2022

The second-generation AirPods Pro may support Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), and could even come with a case that makes a sound to help you find it, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a note to investors seen by AppleInsider and 9to5Mac.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The sounds of the theremin, once the instrument of the future, have now been tingling our spines for 100 years. Moog says the Claravox offers “the highest quality control and sound available in a theremin.” Electronic instruments, and their inventors and players, are some of the most fascinating elements of music history.

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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.

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2021

Like the pricier, larger Move, Sonos is building its Auto Trueplay audio tuning feature right into the Roam. Connecting to both at once will allow you to play a song from your phone or another device nearby to the Roam over Bluetooth — and that music can then also be played across the rest of your Sonos multi-room system.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Since releasing them last year, Apple has quietly continued to improve upon the AirPods Pro with firmware updates that have tweaked their noise cancellation and sound quality. But last month, the AirPods Pro picked up a pair of new features that Apple did announce: spatial audio and automatic switching.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Now it sounds like the company might be turning its attention… to sound. startup that features instrumentals that you overlay with your own voice to create short music tracks (and videos), and also lets musicians upload instrumentals that become the basis for those tracks. The results look something like this or this.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

A screenshot of the teaser in Apple Music’s web app. Screenshot: Apple Music. Apple is teasing a major Apple Music announcement. Get ready,” a post in the service’s Browse tab reads, “music is about to change forever.” pic.twitter.com/BEsuEUK7tr — MacRumors.com (@MacRumors) May 16, 2021.

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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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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Streaming music might be entering a new era of hi-fi audio , but Apple’s AirPods Max aren’t technically ready to go along for the ride. The company has confirmed to The Verge that its premium noise-canceling headphones do not natively support playback of lossless music files. Is it still going to sound very good?

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Digital Trends

JUNE 9, 2021

Apple is officially rolling out support for spatial audio to Apple Music and more. Here's your guide to everything you need to know about this new audio format.

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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. Image: Sony.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

When Tidal launched in 2014, it was the first music app to stream music at CD-quality. Five years later, Amazon followed Tidal's footsteps and introduced a premium subscription including lossless audio. Earlier this year, Spotify announced it would introduce a CD-quality option to their apps later this year, followed by.

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

Today, the rock legend has published another letter on his website, describing Spotify as a purveyor of “more songs and less sound.” Throughout the latest post, Young — a longtime advocate of hi-fi sound — heavily criticizes Spotify for its lossy audio quality. It sounded to me like he was really going to be getting into it.

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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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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Earlier this year, Apple officially discontinued Music Memos, an iPhone app that allowed musicians to quickly record audio and develop new song ideas. Walther had previously spent three and a half years at Spotify, following its 2017 acquisition of the audio detection startup Sonalytic , which he had co-founded.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2022

Leviathan V2 sound system, following up its previous iteration that launched back in 2014. But, of course, the wired subwoofer is there to further amp up the booming low-frequency sounds. The leftmost button can toggle to a secondary audio source. It just announced the $249.99 Sega Dreamcast for scale.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Last year Apple showed how it could embed Shazam’s music identification features even more deeply within iOS 14 , and now it’s taking things another step forward within Apple Music. Apple Music DJ Mix. Apple Music DJ Mix. This is a new path for getting DJ mixes onto Apple Music alongside older ones like Dubset’s platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new music platform, Uppbeat , aims to make it easier for YouTubers and other content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. That led to deciding to build Uppbeat,” he says.

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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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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

That is a 33% discount on a pair of AI-powered noise-canceling earbuds with real-time translation, 360 Audio, high-resolution sound, and IPX7 water resistance. Get Deal The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro offer next-level sound quality , noise cancellation, and AI-powered features. These earbuds are designed for serious audio lovers.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Amazon has announced that, beginning today, Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers will be able to listen to spatial audio music tracks with their favorite headphones with the Amazon Music app for Android and iOS. You’ll see an Atmos or 360 badge in the Amazon Music app when playing spatial audio tracks.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 4, 2022

Add some flair with music or sound effects, or record your own voice. We’ll show you how to add audio to PowerPoint for enhancing your next slideshow.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

On Monday, I had a chance to talk with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s plans to build new audio products over the next few months. If you missed the conversation, you can find the audio here on Soundcloud. Think TikTok, but for audio; Soundbites will let you change your sound via filters and other effects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan. Its business thesis is that demand for audio far outstrips the ability of studio-produced human-spoken voiceovers to deliver.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Arpeggi Labs , a new crypto startup focused on using blockchains to make music creation more collaborative, has scored $5.1 “In music, we’ve seen people immediately resist anything in web3 because they see it as a scam,” co-founder Pastan tells TechCrunch. and web3 music platforms. .”

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, Twitch releases Soundtrack , a new product that allows streamers to play music while they’re live — or, at least, that’s the simplest way to explain it. If the product works the way Twitch says it does, Soundtrack will be much more than just a way to play rights-cleared music while you’re broadcasting.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

“Quality of sound is still important in music,” Lamar said in a quote provided to TechCrunch. All of the problems entailed tracking payments, being credited, the antiquated business model of file transfers and essentially just helping an independent audio engineer sustain and create a business for themselves.”.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

No matter what you do during your waking hours — work at home or outside of it; commute in a car, a train, or by walking from your bedroom to your living room; or spend your days watching the kids or job hunting — you’re probably spending at least some of that time listening to music. But where do you find that music? YouTube Music.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and others. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. million GBP ($6.15

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Tesla’s new holiday update will finally give people the ability to use a new Boombox mode, which can broadcast custom audio on the outside of the car (hence the name). You can also customize the sound your car makes when you press the horn, drive the car or when your car is moving with Summon. Farting isn’t just reserved for honking.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

A supremely comfortable fit, decent noise cancellation, and good sound for $100 1More has absolutely flooded the true wireless earbud market, and it’s confident enough in its new ComfoBuds Pro noise-canceling earbuds to proclaim them as superior to the AirPods Pro — for a fraction of the price. But do they sound better than the AirPods Pro?

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Qualcomm's new mobile audio chips will usher in a new wave of wireless audio features like better ANC and audio sharing.

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