The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s faster to respond to voice commands, and most importantly, it sounds a lot better than the Google Home ever could. Additionally, the Nest Audio sounds good at lower volumes, which is nice when I just want some background music while I’m working or during dinner. It’s larger but easy to fit into a variety of places in your home.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. That said, you should also monitor this site (and others like it) for the rare rogue review. The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. It is a must download!

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

All board members reviewed the organization, top to bottom, made changes, and seven years later, they are back on solid ground. Audrey Lipsey from Crescendo Academy of Music Start with a Personal Connection to the Mission The number-one quality I look for in any potential board member is a true passion for our mission.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

They practically make the ambient sounds in my local coffee shop go poof, and while visiting family upstate over Memorial Day, I tested them in a crowded bar and found that I could listen to my music at around 60 percent volume without hearing any of the lively chatter surrounding me. But Sony’s audio prowess extends through all frequencies.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Some people will like that they won’t have to worry about missing travel announcements or someone trying to speak to them nearby, but I’m more of a tune-out-everything-else person when I listen to music. It’s not a constant source of frustration, but it happens with more frequency than other earbuds I’ve reviewed lately.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

But then I got there, and Sylvalum’s incredible theme music kicked in. I understand that it’s probably very difficult to offer extensive pronoun options in a game with voice acting that was recorded more than a decade ago, but the lack of things like that does stand out now. My favorite area in the whole game.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2021

You can customize the long-press to activate a voice assistant instead, but that’s as far as Beats lets you switch things up. The oval charging case is mercifully way smaller than the giant one that holds the Powerbeats Pro, and the red color of my review unit is quite eye-catching.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

My $799 review unit has the Ryzen 5-4500U, along with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. There, you can swap between presets for Music, Movie, and Voice, as well as equalizer settings for different tunes. The Voice profile even helped mitigate some background noise during Zoom calls. A big part of that is its processor.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2021

Roku’s new $30 remote has upgrades like a rechargeable battery and hands-free voice commands Roku’s new Voice Remote Pro is the company’s first remote control to come with always-listening mics built in. Weight-wise, the Voice Remote Pro felt about the same in my hand as the remote that came with my TCL Roku TV. The new $29.99

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

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. For this review, I’ll keep it simple and focus on speakers that resemble the Roam in size. Auto Trueplay works with music both streamed over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.).

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Now on Tap also features an interactive voice command feature that lets you tell your phone what to do or simply ask questions related to what your currently viewing. The post The Year in Review: The Best Tech Stories of 2015 appeared first on Byte Technology’s Nonprofit Web Design Insights Blog.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

It also has twice as much storage (8GB) for saving music playlists directly to the watch. There’s calendar, weather, Outlook for email, messages, Spotify (including the ability to download playlists offline), Samsung Health for fitness tracking, timer, stopwatch, alarms, world clock, voice recorder, Samsung Pay for mobile payments, and so on.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

One thing worth mentioning is the occlusion effect; since Bose didn’t go for a vented design like the AirPods Pro or Pixel Buds with natural airflow, if you have a very tight seal with the QuietComfort Earbuds in, your inside voice might sound louder than normal, and in silent environments, you can hear yourself breathing.

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The Verge

MARCH 21, 2021

The buttons are mushy, which I can understand since that means they don’t click loudly as you’re listening to music. The music control buttons can be a little cumbersome. I also tested them wired with my Apple Lossless files and streaming Amazon Music HD, and the M-200 ANCs proved wonderfully layered and rich.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

These earbuds improve on Samsung’s prior efforts with clever features like a speech detection mode that automatically lowers your music and lets you hear the outside world as soon as you start talking. This covers one of the three built-in microphones and is there to act as a wind shield for voice calls. More on that later.).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The Move serves as Sonos’ only speaker that can serve as a Wi-Fi or a Bluetooth speaker, meaning you can use it to bolster your arrangement of speakers for music and movies at home via Wi-Fi, or use it by itself to power the tunes when you’re on the go with Bluetooth. It supports Alexa and Google Assistant voice assistants.

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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. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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The Verge

MAY 22, 2020

Except for the dials along the perimeter, the entire surface area of either ear cup can be tapped to pause or play music, skip tracks, and answer calls. But if you’re super particular about balancing your music with the outside world, there’s no getting more granular than this. Everything else feels very familiar.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As well as offering access to Alexa’s typical voice commands, it includes large touchscreen icons that provide access to features like directions, music playback, and making calls. However, when we reviewed it for ourselves, we found Alexa wasn’t great at helping with the kinds of queries we had while driving.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But you’ve also got hands-free “Hey Siri” voice commands at your disposal for adjusting volume or changing up the playlist. In the right ways, they still sound like AirPods, and they’re tuned to work equally well for music, watching videos, podcasts, games, and so on. But when it comes to music, it all feels far more gimmicky.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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The Verge

MARCH 27, 2021

Sound bleed is easily canceled out by everyday street noise, but if you’re inside with the volume turned up, people nearby will be able to tell that you’re listening to music. Voice calls while wearing the Tempos have also been a joy. These are sunglasses, after all, so I imagine those situations will be few and far between.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s an ideal smart display for your nightstand, one that allows you to set alarms using your voice, play music, and more. Read our review. Read our full review. Read our full review. Read our review. Read our review. Read our review. Right now, you can buy it for $45 instead of $85.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

By default, two taps is pause, three activates a voice assistant, and a long press toggles between the noise-canceling modes. They reliably resumed the music whenever I put them back in my ears. Despite putting a huge focus on voice mic performance, 1More also winds up behind the AirPods Pro there — as does everyone else.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It’s a little glimpse into a future Alexa robot that could become much more than a voice powered remote control. All of this processing happens locally on the device — unlike voice commands you say to Alexa, which are primarily processed remotely on Amazon’s servers. It takes getting used to and I’m not sure I’m there yet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2021

My review sample was a fairly boring black, but there’s also a more colorful “Sand Gold” option if you’re feeling more adventurous. Here the headphones were being used in direct sunlight, playing music with ANC on, and gaining power.

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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. This includes playing music, showing weather reports, streaming video, controlling smart home gadgets, telling fart jokes, all the stuff you’ve come to rely on Alexa for.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are a few other neat features that pop up in Control Center, including Portrait Mode (which blurs the background behind you), Voice Isolation (which mitigates background noise while you’re speaking), and Wide Spectrum (which picks up all of your background noise, if you’re doing a virtual guitar lesson or something). Sure, why not.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Sure, they don’t always knock it out of the park: while the company’s $20 security cam put an entire industry on notice, we ultimately decided the barebones $20 Wyze Watch was too much a work-in-progress to give it a review. Again, not optimal for exercise. That’s not great. but for now, for $74, I’m satisfied. Maybe I’ll try that next.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

Of course, Alexa also has its own suite of skills for interacting with your smart home appliances, playing music and podcasts, and basic navigation. (It can also pull up a screen showing you the car’s torque vectoring and traction control.) Image: Lamborghini.

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The Verge

APRIL 27, 2021

A source close to the situation says Spotify reviewed this Rogan episode and left it live because he doesn’t come off as outwardly anti-vaccine. He also doesn’t make a call to action, this source says, noting that the company has taken down other, explicitly anti-vaccine podcasts and music.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Jabra’s latest earbuds impress on voice quality but arrive without the company’s signature feature Jabra has managed to carve out a strong reputation for its true wireless earbuds over the past several years, even as the competition from larger companies continues to get better. Elite 7 Pro are the company’s new premium buds, with the $179.99

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

Or perhaps it’s the inclusion of a voice assistant on your wrist that you can ask to do things without having to use your phone? You can swipe right from the watchface to access basic widgets for music control, weather, and activity tracking, similar to Wear OS or a Samsung watch. The OnePlus Watch also lacks a voice assistant.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The person in charge of The Verge’s reviews program, Dan Seifert, does not. Some models have voice control and integrated speakers and lighting. Not that it really matters; I’ve yet to deplete the battery on my review table since I first set it outside over a week ago. I want a Suntable. In fact, Dan thinks it’s stupid.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Note: Because of the way Fitbit structured the embargo on reviews, I had far less time to test than would be ideal for this kind of device (just five days). We may update this review down the road if longer-duration testing proves to garner important insights. The Sense does what every Fitbit ever has done: counts your steps.

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