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Gmail, Docs, Drive, and more Google services hit by widespread disruption

The Verge

A number of Google services including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Groups, Chat, Keep and Voice are experiencing service disruptions, the company is reporting on its G Suite Status Dashboard. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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How to use AI to find new movies, music, and books

Fast Company Tech

Digital readers: refer to your Kindle library , your read shelf on Goodreads , listen history on Audible, timeline on Libby , or any doc or spreadsheet you maintain with your favorites. Use your voice: If talking jogs your memory, use conversation mode in ChatGPT , Claude , Googles Gemini , or Microsofts CoPilot. Which AI tool to use?

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How to use Google’s free transcription tools

The Verge

Google Docs voice typing. Even longtime users of Google Docs may not be aware of its voice typing tool, which converts speech into text. To use voice typing as a transcription tool: Open a new Google Doc. Select Tools > Voice typing. I’ll explain.

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Highnote launches a collaboration platform for musicians and podcasters offering voice notes, polls and more

TechCrunch

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 With Highnote, that’s a problem of the past.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Because they are collaboratively editable, they are great for anything that requires a teasing out a group voice – agendas, statements or announcements, etc. Finally, events, like docs, also have a comment stream attached.

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Podcast editor Descript adds new pro tier with access to its AI voice double feature

The Verge

Overdub, first released in beta last year , is a synthesis tool that lets you effectively create an AI voice double for yourself. Descript, the maker of artificial intelligence-powered audio editing software, is launching a new tier of subscription today called Descript Pro that features access to its Overdub feature.

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Alexa is nagging you more because Amazon knows you don’t care about its new features

The Verge

“By the way, I’m much more than just a voice-activated timer.” | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Bloomberg ’s report is based on internal Amazon docs, and features some interesting statistics about Alexa usage. That suggests a problem with discoverability and usability for voice interfaces.

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