Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Use your voice: If talking jogs your memory, use conversation mode in ChatGPT , Claude , Googles Gemini , or Microsofts CoPilot. Experimental Advanced, Googles newest model, was an excellent voice partner in analyzing my current reading interests. Its also uniquely able to generate an audio summary piece about your favorites.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

With its upcoming Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is planning to counter one of the differentiating features of Apple’s AirPods Pro (and now AirPods Max): spatial audio. Spatial audio crams an immersive, surround sound-like experience into a set of earbuds or headphones. But Samsung seems to be readying its own take on spatial audio.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

The app is also where you’ll connect other apps like Spotify or Audible to stream them on your Echo devices using Alexa voice commands. Everything else is done through voice commands or through the Alexa app. They provide a hands-free, screen-free way to set timers (for productivity or pizza) or to stream audio.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The new Nest Audio sits between the Nest Mini and Home Max in price, size, and output. Despite that lower price, the Nest Audio is an improvement over the Google Home in nearly every way. It’s faster to respond to voice commands, and most importantly, it sounds a lot better than the Google Home ever could.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

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. million to date (per PitchBook data), and it’s ranked at 143 in iOS in Music in the U.S. Voisey had raised only $1.88

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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. . “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan. Elon Musk busts Clubhouse limit, fans stream to YouTube, he switches to interviewing Robinhood CEO.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Smart speakers are voice-activated digital assistants that enable users to use their voice to command a wide variety of activities, such as play music, listen to news, make calls, watch video clips, shop online, and control smart home devices (thermostats, home alarm systems, lights, smart TVs, etc.). households by 2022.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

The System Assistant allows users to run real-time diagnostics, get recommendations on performance optimizations, or control system software and peripherals all via simple voice or text commands. 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr asr , Maxine Studio Voice RAG: Llama-3.2-NV-EmbedQA-1B-v2

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Highnote launched to the public today, allowing musicians, podcasters, and other creators to collaborate on audio files by recording voice notes directly over a track, making timestamped reactions, and creating polls to get opinions. Highnote also announced its pre-seed funding round of $1.7 Highnote changes that.”.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

Forget long Clubhouse convos, these founders see voice notes as the future “So I’ve identified a few metrics and KPIs that I’m going to start tracking in order to better my overall life experience,” Farbod Nowzad says, seemingly seriously, into his phone microphone. More people chime in, all in audio clips under 90 seconds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. And on the voice side, Adthos compiled a library of hundreds of synthetic voices, including — according to Wedel — “Emmy Award-winning” voice actors and talents.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Nest Audio smart speaker | Photo: Dan Seifert / The Verge. Google has announced that Apple Music is now available on smart speakers and displays that use the Google Assistant, including Google’s own line of Nest products, such as the new Nest Audio.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

But these headphones come with Bose Immersive Audio, which is basically spatial audio that doesn’t feel like a gimmick. CustomTune tech calibrates the sound specifically to your ears, which sounds like sci-fi but in reality just means your music slaps even harder. I tried to be chill about this price drop. I really did.

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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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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

MARCH 4, 2021

Razer is tonight formally announcing its Anzu “smart” glasses, which follow Bose, Amazon, and other companies by integrating audio speakers directly into the glasses temples. hours for its Tenor audio sunglasses. Image: Razer. You can place an order beginning today. Image: Razer. Razer says it has cut Bluetooth latency down to 60ms.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

These use Apple’s H2 chip, which unlocks Adaptive Audio—a feature that smartly blends noise cancellation and transparency mode based on what’s happening around you. The audio quality is also better than I expected for the non-Pro line. It’s one of those “I didn’t know I needed this” things.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to echo around the upper echelons of the ecosystem for a while yet. “When it came down to the dating apps, it was never something I could get into.

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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. ‘Real people, real voices’ is the slogan Beams has come up with for its app-based alternative to switching on (and dialling around) talk radio. (Or, “We raised $3M in late 2020.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Calls are clearer thanks to voice isolation, and music sounds richer without having to mess with EQ settings. I’m into Personalized Spatial Audio too. The AirPods 4 have Apple’s H2 chip, which is the same one in the Pro model, and that brings serious upgrades to clarity and performance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

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

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In 2016, Apple launched a new iPhone app called Music Memos. It was meant to expand on the built-in Voice Memos app’s ease of use while adding some features for musicians. But considering how infrequently Apple updated Music Memos after its release, it’s fair to assume that the app never took off like the company might’ve hoped.

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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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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

But competitors haven’t been sitting idle: Bose’s Noise Canceling Headphones 700 are neck and neck with Sony for noise cancellation and have better microphones for voice calls. And aside from a few tweaks Sony made to how it upscales music, the 1000XM4s sound just like their predecessors — a very good thing, trust me.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“I have been thinking about music since my time at TikTok, and I was really thinking about building something on my own, but then it took me another year to finally have the guts to do it,” said Henriquez. wants to help people easily produce, own and share music that they can create using just their phone. last summer.

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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

MARCH 31, 2025

Still, it works with nearly all the major streaming apps, and its remote has Alexa built-in, so you can control your TV and certain smart home devices with voice commands. It also supports basic HDR10 but not Dolby Vision plus it can pass-through Dolby Atmos audio to a compatible soundbar or receiver.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

Sonos might be developing a voice assistant alternative to Alexa or Google Assistant for its speakers, according to a customer survey spotted by VoiceBot.ai. The survey, shared by a Sonos customer on Reddit , describes an on-device voice control system that would improve user privacy by not routing questions and commands through the cloud.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Instagram has added text-to-speech and voice effects to its TikTok competitor Reels, two features TikTok has had for some time. The robotic voice-overs used as narration for videos grew so ubiquitous on TikTok in fact, that voice actor Bev Standing sued the company in May , saying it didn’t have permission to use her voice.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was a unique device — instead of prioritizing an accessible price and smart assistant features, it was laser-focused on audio quality and considerably more expensive than its closest competitors from Amazon and Google, while being less capable as a smart speaker. As a result, the HomePod didn’t really take off. HomePod mini sound quality.

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The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

There’s a new grid view option, a voice isolation feature to improve sound quality, spatial audio support, and the option to blur your background with “portrait mode.”. Apple Music and Apple TV Plus support it too, of course. It sounds like the web features will launch with iOS 15 in the fall.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Image by Audio-Technica. Audio-Technica’s new pair of wireless earbuds (ATH-CKS50TW) cost $200 and stand out by claiming to have impressive battery life, offering up to 20 hours of audio playback and 15 hours when using the buds’ active noise cancellation feature. Image by Audio-Technica. Image by Audio-Technica.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As you can imagine, the people here at The Verge spend a lot of time listening to a variety of digital sounds — whether it’s online meetings, music, podcasts, videos, or sound checks of their own multimedia productions. AudioQuest’s Dragonfly portable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) brings higher-quality audio to your devices.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Sure, you can drink at home with some music on, but that doesn’t replicate the feeling of being out at a bar among friends and total strangers. 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. well, being at a bar.

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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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