article thumbnail

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.

Amazon 111
article thumbnail

The Bose Smart Soundbar 550 is under $200 at Walmart. My ears are ready.

Mashable Tech

Translation: movies, music, and TV shows sound richer, fuller, and more spread across your space instead of just blasting straight at you. It also has AI Dialogue Mode, which automatically balances voices and surround sound, so you don’t have to crank up the volume to hear what people are saying. SEE ALSO: Listen up!

Alexa 99
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

Music 96
article thumbnail

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.

Music 99
article thumbnail

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

Music 128
article thumbnail

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

Movie 69
article thumbnail

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.

Copyright 143