The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

TikTok has agreed to settle a lawsuit with Bev Standing, the voice actress who said she was behind the app’s original text-to-speech voice. Standing sued TikTok in May, saying that the app was using her voice without permission. Standing said her voice was meant to be used for Chinese translations.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

It’s got a 12MP Ultra Wide camera with Center Stage, meaning your video calls stay focused on you, even if you move around.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AI speech synthesis is quick, easy, and uncannily good Cloning your voice using artificial intelligence is simultaneously tedious and simple: hallmarks of a technology that’s just about mature and ready to go public. Voice clones aren’t perfect, but they’re improving fast. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

This small companywith roughly 54 employees across its Mountain View headquarters and engineering offices in Waterloohas made a name for itself among A/V diehards with its eye-poppingly expensive video players, which combine the convenience of digital delivery with Blu-ray quality. Sometimes the sparseness can be vexing.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

platform will let celebrities and influencers create AI copies of their voices. that will let creators, media figures, and others generate deepfake clones of their voice to license as they wish. that will let creators, media figures, and others generate deepfake clones of their voice to license as they wish. Veritone’s Marvel.AI

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As The Hill reports , the "Lost in Translation" actress is affronted that an anonymously-created AI-generated video that went viral condemningWest for his increasingly bizarre pro-Nazi posts, was made in the first place. "I After the actress threatened legal action, Altman ultimately "paused" the Sky voice " out of respect."

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Epic is adding a new video chat feature to the battle royale game, where players can see livefeeds of their friends inside the game. Houseparty has powered Fortnite ’s cross-platform voice chat since last September.) It’s launching today, though initially, the feature will only be available on PC, PS4, and PS5.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. Before your presentation, take the time to record some video tests on the platform you are using with a few parts of your presentation.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

For Learning and Development (L&D) professionals, instructional designers, and HR teams, AI tools are transforming the creation of videos, graphics, and voiceovers, making it easier than ever to deliver high-quality training materials at scale. With just a script, Synthesia can turn your content into a video featuring a virtual presenter.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

TikTok has changed the voice on its text-to-speech feature, just weeks after an actor claiming to be the original voice filed a lawsuit claiming she never agreed to be featured in the app. The new voice has been showing up in TikToks over the past day — often in videos of people commenting on the change.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The BBC’s in-house voice assistant, ‘Beeb,’ has been released in beta, allowing Windows Insiders in the UK to test the software on Windows 10, the UK broadcaster announced today. The corporation boasts that Beeb is “the first public service voice assistant.” The first public service voice assistant”. “The Image: BBC.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

On average , it can take an hour of recording studio time for five minutes of narration; one calculator pegs the price at $75 per minute for even a simple video. The promise of AI in this domain, specifically natural language processing , is speeding up the task by creating human-sounding dubs across multiple languages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations where humans can look like, say, cats, and even cats can wear festival-chic flower crowns. Now it sounds like the company might be turning its attention… to sound.

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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 real story, though, is the sound. Calls are sharper thanks to voice isolation, and everything from podcasts to playlists sounds crisp and full. They feel more secure and actually stay in place when I move around. Shocking, I know.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’ve spent the day playing through Persona 5 Strikers and noticed the voice of the in-game digital assistant sounded familiar, it’s likely because it’s played by the original voice of Siri ( via Kotaku ). Susan Bennett originally provided the voice for Apple’s digital assistant, and now she’s playing EMMA, the in-game AI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. It’s the number one, first-voiced complaint in every webinar and social media training that I give.

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The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

The video calling service was previously only available on iOS and Mac devices. Apple is turning FaceTime into a bit more of a Zoom-like video calling service with this update. It sounds like the web features will launch with iOS 15 in the fall. The feature lets you pull in songs, videos, or share your screen.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Spatial audio crams an immersive, surround sound-like experience into a set of earbuds or headphones. And it accurately keeps the sound source anchored to your iPhone or iPad, so if you turn your head, you’ll notice that the audio stays in front of you. Yep, sounds like spatial audio.

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

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. Plus, if you want a local storage option, you can buy the Blink Sync Module 2 and a thumb drive to store video clips locally.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Such is the fate of some lawyers and video call participants in the coronavirus era who may struggle with some of the more powerful tools offered by platforms like Google Meet and Zoom. IMPORTANT ZOOM TIP: If a child used your computer, before you join a virtual hearing check the Zoom Video Options to be sure filters are off.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I can certainly say, anecdotally, that just about every podcaster I’ve spoken to has tried the service, which offers a more specialized solution than video chat programs like Zoom and Skype. As of last June, the company has also been testing a video feature. Up to now, the video offering was only available as a closed beta.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

TikTokers have demonstrated that Disney’s text-to-speech TikTok voice , meant to sound like Rocket the Raccoon, would refuse to read words like “gay,” “lesbian,” or “queer” out loud. This decision seems to have been reverted — you can now get the voice to read out those words, but it’s unclear why it was happening.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Voice control provides unique opportunities for accessibility — and some complicated setup As both a software engineer and an avid player of strategy games, chaosparrot struggled to reckon with the damage his work and hobbies had done to his hands. Illustration by Laurent Hrybrk. We have to make it ourselves”. By teaching Parrot.Py

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Overdub, first released in beta last year , is a synthesis tool that lets you effectively create an AI voice double for yourself. Descript, the maker of artificial intelligence-powered audio editing software, is launching a new tier of subscription today called Descript Pro that features access to its Overdub feature.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From the first experience of surround sound to seeing your hands function and your body moving through a digital world, nonprofit marketers and fundraisers absolutely need to explore this next iteration of the internet. Sharing : Cast, take photos, and record video in VR. Store : Find new apps and experiences in the Oculus Store.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Slack is hoping these features might cut down on constant video calls or inefficient text conversations, and bring back the impromptu office interactions most people haven’t experienced for months. Instead of having this 15-minute daily stand-up meeting, can we record the video earlier. and get rid of the 15-minute meeting?”

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The best way to experience a cheap tablet is to just install the apps you use for entertainment and relaxation: Kindle, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, Pocket, whatever your vice of choice is. This is a tablet you buy to watch video and read things, not to try to replace your laptop. The Tab A7 exceeds all of those metrics.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. Here’s how it’s worked pretty much since the old days when digital video first became possible. This is stuff like MPEG-2, H.264,

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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. It’s coming to the web first, with iOS and Android following later.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Maybe think about making a switch or, if you’re just curious about what we have going on, visit our website, all kinds of videos you can watch, kind of get a sense of what we’re all about. So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

And when we are off the clock, we take virtual trips to foreign countries, cook on live-demo video calls, and shimmy around our living rooms with fellow Zumba dancers who could be anywhere in the world. Before your presentation, take the time to record some video tests on the platform you are using with a few parts of your presentation.

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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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Nonprofits Source

MAY 23, 2019

Types Of Video Content. Because of that, businesses, brands and nonprofits alike need to turn their attention to that which is lurking just over the horizon – a video marketing strategy. In truth, the popularity of video marketing is nothing new. Building A Better Online Video Content Strategy. Engagement Videos.

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