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

Fast Company Tech

Use your voice: If talking jogs your memory, use conversation mode in ChatGPT , Claude , Googles Gemini , or Microsofts CoPilot. Experimental Advanced, Googles newest model, was an excellent voice partner in analyzing my current reading interests. You can use those collections to train your AI assistant. Limitation: 2.0

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Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones are down to under $180 ahead of the Amazon Spring Sale

Mashable Tech

Touch sensor controls let you handle music, calls, and volume with just a tap. Speak-to-Chat kicks in automatically when you start talking and pauses your music, which I found both helpful and slightly judgmental. You get up to 30 hours on a full charge, and if you’re short on time, a 10-minute boost gives you 5 more hours.

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Apple Music shuts down its Siri-only Voice Plan nearly two years later

TechCrunch

Apple Music just shut down its cheapest option — the Voice Plan. The subscription, which launched in 2021 and cost $5 per month, featured a Siri-only experience; the only way to access Apple Music’s catalog is to request a song, genre, album or artist by using voice commands. All rights reserved.

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Apple Music's Siri-only "Voice Plan" is now available for $5 a month

TechSpot

We covered the Voice Plan in greater detail a couple months ago, but we'll briefly summarize its functionality again here. If you sign up for the plan, you'll only be paying $5 a month for the same, unlimited access too all of Apple Music's 90 million songs, "tens of thousands.

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Snap acquired Voisey, an app to create music tracks overlaying your own vocals

TechCrunch

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. million to date (per PitchBook data), and it’s ranked at 143 in iOS in Music in the U.S. Voisey had raised only $1.88

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Facebook Gaming will now allow partnered streamers to play copyrighted music

The Verge

Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

TechCrunch

Voice skins” have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants, to help personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, yet also kind of bland and robotic, speaking voices you get on services like Alexa. Our goal is to be a global leader in providing AI voices that touches people’s hearts and emotions.

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