The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Dating app Hinge is adding new audio features, letting users answer the “getting to know you” prompts on their profile using audio clips and exchange voice notes in chat. The new features will roll out Wednesday globally and are the latest example of apps using voice to add a new dimension to digital dating. Image: Hinge.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations where humans can look like, say, cats, and even cats can wear festival-chic flower crowns. It has been offering voice filters, to give your videos a more comedic twist, for years already.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Zuckerberg says that you’ll be able to use the glasses’ built-in mics, speakers, and assistant to send messages, have messages read out to you, and make audio calls using Facebook Messenger. He says that the features being rolled out are just the beginning for the product, which was made in partnership with eyewear titan Luxottica.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Using his philosophical skillset, Julian sketches a picture of how all the elements of food consumption and production fit together. Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App. Every citizen has the potential not only to have a voice in how the food world is shaped, but real power in using that voice.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

and “audio-visual diarization” (remembering who said what when). Facebook’s first pair of commercial AR glasses can only record and share videos and pictures — not analyze it. Audio-visual diarization : Who said what when (e.g., there’s possibilities down the road that we’d be leveraging this kind of research”.

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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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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. Image Credits: Tape It.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2022

Pictures of the leaked models in their carrying case show a design that ditches the collapsible folding of the XM4 that tucked one cup inside the other. Still, in these pictures, it seems doubtful they’ll take up much more space on a desk, stand, or in your bag. Image: TechnikNews. hours via USB-C, about 30 minutes longer than the XM4.

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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. Qwiki automatically turns pictures and videos from events you’ve captured on your iPhone into brief movies to share. Learn more at: petitions.whitehouse.gov. VoiceTexter :: itunes.apple.com/voicetexter.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Omni series is the higher-end of the two, and beyond offering better picture quality, its other key selling point is hands-free voice control. That’s led by the content-forward Fire TV interface and wide app selection, but Amazon believes that Alexa voice controls add a major convenience factor. Image: Amazon.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

It also comes with a voice remote, whereas the Premiere only includes Roku’s basic remote without voice search. (If But otherwise, the Stick Plus and Premiere are basically identical: they both give you 4K HDR picture, are snappy and responsive to use, and have what feels like an endless catalog of apps to pick from.

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

You can use short audio files uploaded from your phone and save voice messages as notification tones from a chat. Telegram says it currently supports audio files and voice messages under 300KB and less than five seconds long. In a new update , Telegram announced it’s letting users set any sound as their notification tone.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Speech recognition has gone from convenient to crucial over the last few years as smart speakers and driving assist modes have taken off — but not everyone’s voice is recognized equally well. for African American voices compared to Google (68.7%) and Amazon (68.6%),” the company wrote in its press release.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Chromecast with Google TV provides access to all of your favorite streaming services and has a built-in voice assistant to help you find your favorite shows. These mini speakers from Creative are an awesome solution for beefing up your desktop audio without sacrificing space. Read our review. Each speaker on the Creative Pebble 2.0

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

The latest F50 series improves on previous “Fire TV Edition” sets — Amazon is just calling them “Fire TVs” now — with expanded quantum dot HDR color for a more vivid picture. The new models also feature slimmer bezels, DTS Virtual-X audio from the built-in speakers, and continue to support Dolby Vision HDR.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Anonymous Camera blurs faces and bodies; distorts audio and strips metadata. The app can also distort voices in videos and strips any metadata that’s automatically embedded in files by cameras and phones. That includes the time a photo or video was taken and, depending on your privacy settings, where it was taken.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2022

What matters more than its spec sheet, according to Samsung, is that this highly portable and swiveling visual lightshow with integrated speaker and voice control is coming to support your carefree “lifestyle” and nomadic “experiences.”. But for its $900 price, there’s definitely some expectation of good picture quality.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This lets you bring up a live view of your doorbell camera on a bigger screen with a simple voice command. The Eufy has two cameras, so the second is shown as a picture-in-picture. If the display is voice-enabled, you can simply say “Hey Google, show the doorbell.”. Hey Google, show my doorbell on living room TV”).

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

DIY Multimedia tools to create social content Canva for nonprofits – pictures dominate social comms and a good canva template can go a long way. are tools that can quickly translate audio notes to text with AI services. Thoughts on Brand Voice. Social Media Tools. Rev.com or Otter.ai

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Amazon Echo Show devices, on the other hand, can do all of the aforementioned audio stuff, but they also boast colorful displays for making video calls, streaming entertainment, or managing your day. Responding to voice commands, Alexa has an answer to almost anything you ask. What can Alexa do? And that's just naming a few options.

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2021

Back in May 2019, Spotify announced that it would be publicly testing a voice-controlled smart assistant for cars that the company called “Car Thing.” It’s pictured at the top of this post. A photo of Spotify’s Car Thing, taken from FCC filings. Image: FCC filings. Bluetooth enabled for communication with the Car Head Unit.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Creative tasks, like creating music, drawing new pictures, or creating videos. In “ Large Motion Frame Interpolation ”, we demonstrated that short slow-motion videos can be created by interpolating between two pictures that were taken many seconds apart, even when there might have been significant movement in some parts of the scene.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Of course, in its most rudimentary form, a podcast is simply a digital audio recording delivered to listeners who can hear it at their convenience. Our goal was to create an audio episode that provides a useful, amusing, and brief answer to a pressing technology question. That's because some stories tell themselves.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Remote code execution through a buffer overflow in the Quest voice chat library, getting execution in a privileged first-party application would receive a $16,000 payout. A third-party app gaining microphone access without requesting it on a Quest device would receive a $5,000 payout under “Unauthorized mic access by third-party app.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

It paints a picture of growth, albeit one that came at steep expense. White-label voice assistants will win the battle for podcast discovery. Americans are bored, housebound and screened out, driving roughly 128 million Americans to use a voice assistant at least once a month. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And the two products go tit for tat in their core video and audio streaming features despite the older model often being discounted; at the time of this review, the regular Fire TV Stick 4K is on sale for $33.99. And you also get a newer Alexa voice remote in the box with app shortcuts and a handy shortcut to live TV programming.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

But it’s also designed to slot into Sonos’ multiroom audio platform and showcase the versatility that comes with it. The Roam supports hands-free voice commands, has Apple AirPlay 2, includes wireless charging, and features a rugged design that lets you use it practically anywhere. Repeat the process, and audio moves back to the Roam.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Gnawing, burrowing, infecting: The damages caused to agriculture by insect pests like the Japanese beetle (pictured above) exceed $100 billion every year, according to the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA. That data is turned into audio and analyzed by machine learning algorithms in the cloud.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Of course, it does everything other Echo displays and speakers do, thanks to the presence of Amazon’s smart voice assistant, Alexa. You can also have it just display art or photos (stored in Amazon Photos or Facebook, nowhere else, sadly), fulfilling its picture frame ambitions. Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

You can customize your background picture, set personal notes on your chat profile, swap between portrait and landscape layouts, and more. It’s missing some features of the web client — namely, voice and video calling. (If you’re experiencing connectivity issues, turning off your video feed usually helps.) a month or Nitro for $9.99

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Setting up the lamp speaker is a short process in the Sonos app: plug in the detachable, braided power cord, and it’s automatically detected and added to your whole-home audio system a few moments later. Like other modern Sonos speakers, the lamp supports Apple’s AirPlay 2, so it’s easy to play audio on it from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 also supports Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth LE Audio (a first for Qualcomm), and the company’s Snapdragon Sound technology for enabling AptX Lossless wireless audio. As is always the case, you almost certainly won’t actually see that kind of speed in the real world.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

However, the 2021 Apple TV 4K still doesn’t support bitstream audio passthrough, so the company hasn’t addressed all the wants of home theater enthusiasts. Navigating through menus and Siri voice searches both come with an extra dash of speed, and apps seem to load faster than before.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

They capture precise head and hand motion, pictures of your surroundings through tracking cameras, and microphone audio for Facebook’s voice command system. Even more than smartphones, Oculus Quest headsets are a gold mine of information about you.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

But there’s one area where it’s far ahead of the pack — the audio. There’s actually a 14-inch laptop out there with very good audio. I’m not exaggerating when I say this is the best audio I’ve ever heard from a laptop of this size. Type-A Gen 2, two Thunderbolt 4, and an audio combo jack. Yes, you read that correctly.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2021

one SD slot, one combo audio jack, and an optional Nano-SIM card slot. You can optimize the dual microphones for various settings (including voice recognition, solo calls, and conference calls) in Lenovo’s Vantage software. They didn’t have any trouble picking up my voice. Ports include two USB 3.2

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