TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers. Need help sleeping?”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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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Mashable Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

That’s a 60% discount on a premium soundbar that upgrades your TV audio without turning your living room into an electronics graveyard of tangled wires and bulky speakers. audio to create a more immersive sound experience, even when content isn’t Dolby Atmos-encoded. The TrueSpace technology up-mixes stereo and 5.1

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Could they be a series of voice messages and quick text replies? Meet Async , a new productivity startup based in New York that wants to replace quick calls with asynchronous audio messages. You open the app on your laptop or phone, start recording and get a link that you can share anywhere. But what about one-to-one calls?

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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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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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The Verge

MAY 11, 2021

Journalist Brad Stone says Nina Rolle is the original voice of Alexa. Amazon’s Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. There was someone whose voice had to be recorded, analyzed, and algorithmically reproduced to create Alexa as we know it now. Image: Nina Rolle. Bezos signed off on it.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Google goes back to its old tricks, mostly for the better The amount of effort Google seems to put into its Pixel phones while simultaneously ensuring that they look and feel mundane never ceases to astonish me. The Pixel 5 has a simple rear-mounted fingerprint sensor that harkens back to Android phones from 2018, not 2020.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

One of the stranger applications of deepfakes — AI technology used to manipulate audiovisual content — is the audio deepfake scam. Hackers use machine learning to clone someone’s voice and then combine that voice clone with social engineering techniques to convince people to move money where it shouldn’t be. But it’s passable.

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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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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JULY 16, 2011

Thanks to the inspiration of my nptech colleague Joel Remigio , I am now experimenting with a Google Voice phone number! Historically, I have disliked using phones, mostly because: 1) My hearing is not the greatest. 3) I don't like listening to voice mail , because the messages always sound garbled to me. this will work!

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

You’ll need the Alexa app on your phone, and it walks you through setup step-by-step. 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.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Earlier this year, Nvidia released RTX Voice, a beta software to process audio and suppress almost all background noise, and it worked amazingly well. Nvidia Broadcast is a follow-up to the RTX Voice beta and introduces two new AI-powered features: Virtual Background and Auto Frame. I hope the quality is this good when I try it.

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Engadget

APRIL 11, 2025

Especially when the phone has the Tensor G4 chip. Having said that, we dont know what kind of OS is running on the device, but it will process voice, audio and visual data. Samsung says it can manage your smart home devices and even offer health and styling recommendations, for some reason. And struggle. with stairs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

In less than a month, over 1,700 other cities started Occupy events – both in solidarity to the thousands protesting around the clock in New York’s financial district, and with a loud voice that these issues are not unique to the US. The power of “now” is what makes something go from news, to breaking news.

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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. Team members make a WhatsApp group, and once the group is established the members are easily reachable by a message sent directly to their mobile phones. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Amazon is working on a new feature for its Alexa voice assistant that will let the software launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands, a first for Amazon’s assistant and a bold expansion of its strategy to position Alexa as a platform-agnostic alternative to Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant.

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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 23, 2021

Facebook is testing adding voice and video calls to the main Facebook app, Bloomberg reports. Voice and video calls are two of several Messenger features that Facebook has introduced in its other products like Portal video cameras and Oculus virtual reality headsets. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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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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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

You can actually hear real-time translations through your Buds when using the Interpreter feature on a Galaxy phone. SEE ALSO: I can’t believe this 85-inch Hisense U7 4K TV is $900 off Then there’s the audio quality. Samsung upgraded these with SSC HiFi and UHQ audio codecs, which support 24-bit/96kHz high-resolution sound.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2021

You know spatial audio is having quite a moment when wireless carriers decide to create their own implementations of it. The audio trick, which Verizon says has been in the works since 2019, is coming to Motorola phones first, including the new Motorola One 5G UW Ace that goes on sale July 8th. Image: Verizon.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

With Animoto, you can put together photos, slides, and text with audio and video to create a compelling story from all the various elements you may have created separately or gathered at an event. The best part is that you can post in a manner of ways: from the platform, from your email, from your phone, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 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

CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. 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.

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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. The first is a simple convenience for anyone with an Android phone; Sony now supports Android’s Fast Pair for quick setup. Let’s get to the new stuff.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

This will allow car companies to create their own wake words for the assistant and create custom voices and capabilities Amazon says will “co-exist” with Alexa as it’s designed to work in cars today, but with the added benefit of being built right into the onboard car software.

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

General audio quality has been improved as well, and they have a comfy fit. There's also Alexa support built into the remote, so you can use voice commands to search for content. They support wired USB-C audio, plus they have solid ANC as well.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

The Yayagram looks and works like an old-fashioned physical phone switchboard. That’s why Twitter user @ mrcatacroquer , Manuel Lucio Dallo, built the Yayagram — a DIY project that makes sending and receiving voice and text messages over Telegram a physical process just like using an old-fashioned phone switchboard.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Of course, it’s not great for music (it uses only one ear, after all), but it’s incredibly convenient to have it hanging on a loop in my bag so I can grab it for a quick phone call or if I want to listen to a podcast. AudioQuest’s Dragonfly portable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) brings higher-quality audio to your devices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

CharityRadio is a live weekly radio program that you listen to over your mobile phone. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. 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.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

To turn audio notifications off, go to the web-based Settings page. You can also have Zoom ask to record the voice of someone who joins by phone to use as a notification. It can also be irritating if you’re part of a meeting with ten or more people, and you hear a “ding dong” every time somebody enters or leaves the meeting.

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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. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. A mobile app that allows you easily conduct mobile searches by simply speaking into your phone using their new “Speak Now” technology.

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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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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. As with the innovations in wearables, its another way youll be able to leave the phone in your pocket for a while longer.

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