Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The radical flank effect shows that when radical activists push boundaries, they often make moderate voices in the same movement appear more reasonable. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. George Ferns is a senior lecturer in business and society at the University of Bath.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2021

Epic Games is launching free voice chat and anti-cheat services that developers can implement in their games, the company announced on Tuesday. The new voice chat service is cross platform and supports both one-on-one and party chat in lobbies and during in-game matches.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Google will soon let G Suite customers with Google Voice licenses make Google Voice calls right from their Gmail inbox. The new feature seems like a handy way to make a Google Voice call without needing to jump to a second tab to do so.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2021

While Amazon has allowed companies to build skills for Alexa and allows pretty much any consumer electronic device maker to integrate Alexa into a compatible product, the e-commerce giant has not licensed the underlying AI tech for use in other assistant-like products. Amazon is calling the new offering Alexa Custom Assistant.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

Musk has long voiced concerns about how advanced forms of AI could threaten humanity. The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives. O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

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. “Adthos has already paid out hundreds of thousands in royalties to voice actors,” he added. .

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

Another example Apple showed was asking Siri to find an image of your drivers license, take the ID number on it and put it into a form youre filling out. Itll also have more awareness of whats on your screen and better natural language understanding. That, of course, is all just a promise right now.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

"As of May 13, 2011, we are releasing the code for our community software platform, the Zanby Enterprise Group Family System, under a GPLv3 license. Since then, the site has collected 57,384 comments, or “voices,&# from people around the world, via SMS, Twitter, and on the Demand Dignity website. "

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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. That has come with a growing trove of licensing deals with big publishers. The company appears to have acquired Voisey , a U.K.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

The idea that we should focus on big factors gives us the license to relax a little. 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. They only eat what they have gathered that day. Their guts are healthy because they eat a wide range of fibrous plants.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

billion , bolstering the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant’s prowess in voice recognition and giving it further leverage in the health care market, where Nuance sells many products. Nuance is best known for its Dragon software, which uses deep learning to transcribe speech and improves its accuracy over time by adapting to a user’s voice.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Brittany Bate, a licensed psychologist and owner of Be BOLD Psychology and Consulting , says that one common pattern is overthinking. This is when the relentless inner voice questions every decision, amplifying every doubt, and making progress feel impossible.

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The Verge

MARCH 14, 2021

The middle eastern country of Oman has blocked the Clubhouse voice chat app saying it lacked the proper permit to operate, as some activists raised concerns that it was an act of censorship, Reuters reported. According to WAF, Oman “prohibits the use of several encrypted VoIP applications without an official license.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For now, only one feature requires age verification: Roblox’s new voice chat feature, Spacial Voice. Verification will require uploading an “ID card, driver’s license, or passport” as well as a selfie taken “on the spot” to help confirm that the ID was really uploaded by the person to whom it belongs.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

As we continue to offer more social media trainings for seniors, we hope to contribute our own Creative Commons licensed materials that other community-based individuals and nonprofit organizations can use in their work. Creative Commons licensed training materials would be particularly beneficial. You can also follow us on Friendfeed.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Google will pay for news content from select publishers as part of a new licensing program announced today. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It says the content will form part of a “new news experience” coming later this year, launching first on its Google News and Discover services.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)! And that's just two examples.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

On the monetization front, the company plans to sell the viewing data that it obtains, but also says that licensing its recommendation algorithm could be a good earner. To achieve this, the software can understand when a person gets stressed by listening to their voice.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The typical Voicy user is, unsurprisingly, young and trigger happy, per the startup — which envisages gamer voice chat as a key target for a pipelines of social integrations it hopes to build out. Voicy is not licensing any audio content currently but the founders suggest they may do in future. What about risks around copyright?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2011

People's Voice Winner). Associations: American Institute of Architects , the leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners since 1857. People's Voice Winner). People's Voice Winner). Webby Award Winner).

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Futurism

MARCH 3, 2025

As spotted by developer and blogger Scott Hanselman, the streamer or whatever rightsholder licensed the show to it seriously bungled its efforts to upscale the decades-old footage, which was originally shot on film and made available on DVD since then. The show was added earlier this month and is currently listed as being "HD."

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And when Bose gave up on making earbuds for sleep, a new startup called Ozlo picked up the slack, licensing Boses design for tiny sleep buds and building out new features such as Bluetooth audio and sleep detection. A privacy-focused voice assistant device to rival Amazons Echo and Googles Nest debuted in December.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

The therapy is done live via Zoom for Healthcare with licensed professionals that Expresssable employs full-time. Loyst was diagnosed with a speech and voice condition in late 2020 and needed to find remote SLP therapy, which introduced her to the challenges of finding a high-quality specialized SLP. What it does.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

iOS 14 also won’t allow changes to the default voice assistant. Siri remains the only legitimate choice for voice commands, and it’s not clear if the default search queries within Siri — like identifying songs and pushing you to Apple Music — will change with this update. Apple’s HomePod.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2011

“ Vonage , a provider of voice-over-internet-protocol communications, also said it will waive per-minute calling charges from 830 pm March 11 until 830 pm (EST) March 18 for customers call from their Vonage home phones to Japan.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2022

They can also amplify certain sounds, like your voice, while also dampening background noise. And Eargo added a “mask mode,” which allows the device to more accurately compensate for how masks dampen a speaker’s voice. Samsung added Voice Detect in early 2021 to the Galaxy Buds Pro and Buds 2.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

We’re not a manufacturer of drivers, we just defend the technology and we license it,” explains Mattias Scheek, CEO at Mayht. “We can finally show our technology in different kinds of applications — from soundbars to small subwoofers to small voice-assistant speakers. Image Credits: Mayht. Image Credits: Mayht.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

They just hear her voice and see her reactions through the model that represents her. In cases where it’s understood how a buyer is going to use an artist’s work — like a photographer taking a headshot for an actor’s website — there may be an implied license, even if those terms aren’t spelled out.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The brand, which is licensed by Resideo and spun out of Honeywell in 2018, already has support for Apple’s smart home system in its T5 thermostat, also known as Lyric T5 , but that device doesn’t have external sensors. Once connected, you can use automations to adjust the temperature or ask Siri to do it for you.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

According to co-founder and CEO Lanre Ogungbe , the team was initially building a platform that required consumers to use biometrics (face, fingerprints, or voice) and cards to make payments. However, for the folks at Lagos-based Identitypass, it wasn’t the love for reducing the high rates of fraud that led them to start the company.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Features like Snap Layouts, desktops, and improved voice typing simplify multitasking, while advanced encryption and biometric logins keep your data safe. Head to the Mashable Shop to get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2021 and Windows 11 Pro. StackSocial prices subject to change. Save A$603.00

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TechNode

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When put into micro mode, the phone will use voice, text, or other prompts to describe the health status of the object and provide suggestions for maintaining hygiene. Context: Over 350 companies have obtained licenses for Huawei’s patents through patent pools.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In the past, Adobe has set itself apart in the AI space with stringent IP protections (it only trains Firefly on licensed content and bills its new video model as the industrys first commercially safe video AI) and by making significant improvements to its new features over time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

It now has around 26 businesses using its tools, he said, including Chilly’s, Brioni, SumUp, Paradox Interactive and Coca-Cola Embonor (a company that works under a Coca-Cola license to make and distribute drinks in Chile and Bolivia).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel offers its clients a full-stack platform with offerings such as contact center, APIs, voice and chat bots, to engage with their customers through touch points such as web chat, co-browsing and videos. The company had to double down on ensuring that they were well above board and procured whatever licenses it needed.

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