TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

PolyAI builds and deploys voice assistants for automating customer services, which, claims the startup, sound like real humans. This helps companies get an infinite and cheaper supply of their best human voice operators, which reduces customer waiting times, and increases customer satisfaction and retention, says the company. “We

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

But they don’t just look good: dual 40mm titanium drivers pump out powerful, precise sound, while the adaptive ANC silences your surroundings with near surgical precision. These are headphones you’ll actually want to wear all day — and you can, with up to 38 hours of battery life even with ANC on.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Kohler has revealed a new smart bath that lets you use an app, or your voice, to fill up the water. That by itself seems pretty handy to me, but depending on which model you buy, you can elevate your bathing experience by changing the color of lights around the tub or even adding some fog. Image: Kohler.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Sit quietly for a moment and pay attention to the different sounds around you. These are all noises Cochlear.ai , a Seoul-based sound recognition startup, is training its SaaS platform to identify. will use its Series A on hiring over the next 18 months and to increase the dataset of sounds used to train its deep learning algorithms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The growing ease with which anyone can create convincing audio in someone else’s voice has a lot of people on edge , and rightly so. AI-generated speech is being used for all kinds of legitimate purposes, from screen readers to replacing voice actors (with their permission, of course). Here are two examples they provided.

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

The Pro model is also on sale, down to $320 from $400. It's best for those who have a smaller living room or den they want to outfit with better TV sound. There's also Alexa support built into the remote, so you can use voice commands to search for content. Also available at Sonos in their March Madness sale.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

This might mean disclosing a personal challenge to foster a culture of openness , voicing uncertainty about your opinion in order to invite contribution or model risk-taking, or sharing your hopes and dreams to help inspire others. Put the needs of the team above your own and always consider your potential impact on your audience.

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Engadget

APRIL 11, 2025

With more AI smarts, a new hardware design, and the biggest battery on any Pixel yet, on paper, it sounds good. Samsung Samsungs Ballie will go on sale in the US and South Korea this summer and will now pack Googles Gemini AI model. Google is back with another entry-level smartphone, the Pixel 9a. Especially the sub-$500 price tag.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

SEE ALSO: The Apple AirPods Pro 2 are listed for under $170 in the Amazon Spring Sale The sound quality? The AirPods 4 have Apple’s H2 chip, which is the same one in the Pro model, and that brings serious upgrades to clarity and performance. Honestly better than I expected for the “non-Pro” tier. Absolutely.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Deputy Reviews Editor Miller Kern gave them a nearly perfect rating upon tested, crediting their impeccable sound quality, great noise cancellation, and customizable sound. inch Liquid Retina display, a landscape camera layout that makes video calls appear better, and upgraded stereo speakers for better sound quality.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Drag a blob up or down, and you’ll change what pitch they sing in; drag them from side to side, and you’ll change the vowel sound. The Blob Opera just sounds beautiful , with soaring harmonies ringing out from each blob. Rather, the team trained a machine learning model on those voice recordings.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

It does, however, show you the time, weather, song titles, and more at a glance and lets you control your smart devices with your voice — including the WiZ smart bulb you can snag for free with this deal. hours of listening, customizable EQ settings, customizable tap controls, and Bose-quality sound. As of April 11, the $79.99

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

I will begin with a discussion of language, computer vision, multi-modal models, and generative machine learning models. Language Models The progress on larger and more powerful language models has been one of the most exciting areas of machine learning (ML) research over the last decade. Let’s get started!

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

A supremely comfortable fit, decent noise cancellation, and good sound for $100 1More has absolutely flooded the true wireless earbud market, and it’s confident enough in its new ComfoBuds Pro noise-canceling earbuds to proclaim them as superior to the AirPods Pro — for a fraction of the price. But do they sound better than the AirPods Pro?

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

So Chang and co-founder Rima Seiilova-Olson built an API to detect depression through voice. “We People who are feeling blue tend to have a flat voice, something that clinicians have observed for decades. Our neural network model has been trained on tens of thousands of depressed voices.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Synthetic speech tech startup Murf gives a voice, literally, to content creators of all sizes. Murf, which now has a library of more than 120 human-parity AI voices across 20 languages, announced today it has raised $10 million Series A funding led by Matrix partners. Murf’s founders.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Does this reflect our organization’s voice and values? Give AI access to: Your organization’s unique voice Successful past communications Donor feedback and preferences Your mission-specific language 3. If you recite the script—cringe alert—you will sound unnatural, even robotic. Don’t use AI for everything.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

New to the M4 model is a long-requested option to connect to two Bluetooth devices (like a phone and a laptop) simultaneously. There’s also an interesting new Adaptive Sound Control feature that allows users to set custom settings profiles for different locations (like a library or a coffee shop) through Sony’s companion app.

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The Verge

MAY 22, 2020

On the current model, you have to reconnect if you want to use a different device. The M4 may also include a feature called “Smart Talking,” allowing the headphones to detect voices and adjust the ambient sound so you can hear conversations without taking off the headphones. Sony WH-1000XM4 Info from Headphone Connect 7.0.1

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It sounds simple. And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. Silence that inner commentator whose chatter is louder than any voice in the room. Tone of voice, body language, and facial expression are clues to what or how people want to communicate. Begin with yourself. Be the change.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Boses Ultra Open Earbuds, meanwhile, lead a burgeoning category of hearables that let in outside sound instead of tuning you out, with a comfy design that clips to the side of the ear. The glasses amplify sounds in front of the wearer using beamforming technology to make conversations easier and eliminate distractions from ambient noises.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

There's also Alexa support built into the remote, so you can use voice commands to search for content. It's best for those who have a smaller living room or den they want to outfit with better TV sound. Sonos Ray for $179 ($100 off): This is our favorite midrange soundbar thanks to its compact, attractive design and easy setup.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Photo by Evan Blass / Voice. There are some visible changes to the new model, including minor adjustments to the port layout and the extension of Samsung’s application of the orange color. The keyboard on the second-generation model has been made a more neutral black, even as the orange hue has extended to the sides of the laptop.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Amazon has announced an upgraded model of its Echo Frames smart glasses , adding better sound quality, longer battery life, and new colors. The second-generation Echo Frames will cost $249.99 — a $70 price increase over the original models , which sold for $179.99. Image: Amazon.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In practice, the apps functionalities sound pretty much identical to the experience of going to the web version of Copilot. Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would make the Copilot features Voice and Think Deeper, which taps into OpenAI's o1 model , available to any users for free.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A video produced by VentureBeat shows the software in action, with G Suite’s director of product management Serge Lachapelle demonstrating how it can pretty seamlessly remove the sound of crackling crisp packets, clicking pens, or glass clinking. Google’s announcement said the tech will also work on dogs barking or the clicking of a keyboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The company’s home-baked text-to-speech engine works faster than real time and produces natural-sounding clips of pretty much any length, from quick snippets to hours-long readings. But soon it had built its own that was more efficient, resulted in more convincing voices and could produce clips of arbitrary lengths.

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The Verge

JANUARY 3, 2022

The company announced the availability of its smart bath tech at CES 2022 this week, which lets you fill up a bathtub with a simple voice command. PerfectFill doesn’t just fill, however, you can also drain the tub with a voice or app command. The other models are coming in Q3, prices still to be announced. Image: Kohler.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Each Kraken V3 headset has Razer’s 50mm TriForce drivers that originated in the BlackShark V2 lineup , and from its Nari headset comes the HyperSense haptic feedback to two of the three Kraken V3 models. and is coming in Q4 2021, while the other two models launch today. The most appealing Kraken V3 is the Pro. It costs $199.99

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

The criteria for picking the best noise-canceling headphones hasn’t changed: the most important measures are how well they can eliminate outside noise, sound quality, battery life, whether they support simultaneous pairing to multiple devices, and comfort. The WH-1000XM3 sound more punchy and fuller than the Noise Canceling Headphones 700.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s built a platform that offers fully automated, scalable audio production by using AI-driven synthetic media, (“ethical”) voice cloning, and audio mastering — which can be delivered to people’s ears via websites, mobile apps, smart speakers and so on via its APIs.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Google’s latest smart speaker has good sound and an attractive price Four years is an eternity in the modern tech product world, but that’s exactly how long it’s been since Google’s first smart speaker, the Google Home , was released. Still, the Nest Audio’s shape is hard to describe without accidentally sounding pejorative.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From premium options like the AirPods Pro 2, which combine sleek design with impressive active noise cancellation, to models that prioritize exceptional sound quality, theres a pair of Bluetooth earbuds for everyone. Despite lots of promises, the reality is most earbuds still leave you sounding like youre on speakerphone.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. To generate ad scripts, Adthos leverages OpenAI’s recently released GPT-4 text-producing model. “We use real-life voice actors for the training of synthetic voices. .

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

The team, members of which spoke to Insider anonymously, say they’re currently trying to figure out how to isolate people’s voices in a crowded room or make it easier to focus on one person when overlapping conversations are happening around you. Alphabet’s team isn’t focused on just one device or one use case, Insider says.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 22, 2023

These models often rely on the fact that raw data is first converted to a compressed format as a sequence of tokens. Such a representation consists of a sequence of discrete audio tokens, capturing the local properties of sounds (e.g., In the case of audio, neural audio codecs (e.g., phonemes ) and their temporal structure (e.g.,

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Each has two 5W speakers built in and includes a remote control with voice assistant support for Bixby 2.0, It’s sounding a lot like a TV, yeah? The M5 Smart Monitor models will be releasing in a few weeks, and the M7 is currently set to release in early December. Alexa, and Google Assistant. Image: Samsung. Image: Samsung.

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