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Microsoft Phone Link app updated with more audio source options

TechSpot

The Phone Link app allows you to receive phone calls, SMS, manage apps, and view photos on your PC by linking your Android device or iPhone. This latest version also lets you choose whether audio plays on your PC or phone. Read Entire Article

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Apple Music’s lossless and spatial audio comes to select Android phones

Digital Trends

Apple has finally brought Android phones into the lossless and spatial audio world for Apple Music, but only select handsets will get both features.

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Chrome can now instantly caption audio and video on the web

The Verge

Google is expanding its real-time caption feature, Live Captions, from Pixel phones to anyone using a Chrome browser, as first spotted by XDA Developers. But in general, the feature is just as impressive as it was when it first appeared on Pixel phones in 2019. Live Captions captioning audio from a podcast player.

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Nintendo finally adds Bluetooth audio to the Switch in new software update

The Verge

Nintendo has surprise-announced that Bluetooth audio support has come to the Switch through a software update. The ability to use Bluetooth headphones to listen to game audio has been a conspicuously missing feature since the console launched in 2017 , so it’s great to finally have it — though there are some limitations.

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Google is rolling out "audio emoji" for voice calls, and they're really dumb

TechSpot

As 9to5Google highlights, the tech giant is rolling out audio emoji in its phone app for some reason. The feature is launching with six sound effects including clapping (applause), laughing, party, crying (trombone), sting (ba dum tss), and poop (a fart noise). Read Entire Article

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Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro will have a feature just like ‘spatial audio’ on the AirPods Pro

The Verge

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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Qualcomm’s aptX Lossless promises CD-quality audio for wireless headphones

The Verge

But one of the main challenges confronting lossless audio is how to play it wirelessly (at full fidelity) on wireless headphones and earbuds. With aptX Lossless (which is technically an extension of aptX Adaptive), Qualcomm says it’ll be able to stream CD-quality, 16-bit / 44.1kHz lossless audio over Bluetooth.

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