David Priest 2021-07-22 09:54:24 www.cnet.com LG LG today announced a handful of big upgrades to its PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier -- the mask with built-in fans and filters that the company launched last year. Those include a more efficient…
Tim Hardwick 2021-07-22 03:44:35 www.macrumors.com Twitter is currently working on a "Voice Transformer" – a voice manipulation feature for Spaces, its live audio conversations service that rolled out to more users in May. "Voice Transformer" will provide several effects…
Chris Smith 2021-07-21 17:33:41 www.trustedreviews.com Amazon had finally added a male voice for its voice assistant, with the name “Ziggy” also joining Alexa as a wake word option. As first spotted by The Ambient, the male option is the…
Suzanne Humphries 2021-07-21 16:40:24 www.reviewgeek.com Amazon Amazon is now offering a masculine-sounding voice option to its virtual assistant, Alexa, which has now started rolling out to users. The company is also introducing a new wake word, Ziggy, to trigger…
Chaim Gartenberg 2021-07-21 13:23:57 www.theverge.com Amazon has quietly started rolling out a new masculine-sounding voice option to its Alexa virtual assistant along with a similarly masculine-sounding wake word to trigger the assistant: “Ziggy.” (The odd choice of name is…
Abrar Al-Heeti 2021-07-16 17:17:00 www.cnet.com Voice tweets are becoming more accessible. Sarah Tew/CNET Twitter on Thursday turned on automated captions for voice tweets on iOS following criticism that the feature, which debuted last year, wasn't accessible to people with…
Alan Boyle 2021-07-07 12:00:29 www.geekwire.com WellSaid Labs creates natural-sounding voice avatars for text-to-speech applications. (WellSaid Labs Graphic) WellSaid Labs will have a lot more to say in the years ahead, thanks to $10 million in new investment that’ll be…
Ron Miller 2021-06-30 15:02:07 feedproxy.google.com It’s easy to forget, but Salesforce bought Slack at the end of last year for almost $28 billion, a deal that has yet to close. We don’t know exactly when that will happen, but…
Joe Fedewa 2021-06-27 11:23:00 www.howtogeek.com Joe Fedewa Typing out a message with your voice on an Android phone or iPhone is incredibly easy to do. You can do the same thing on a Chromebook, too, and it’s easier than…
Eric Abent 2021-06-24 11:57:31 feeds.slashgear.com Windows 11 has been officially revealed, and it looks like the operating system is bringing new touch, pen, and voice features along with it. In this era of detachable 2-in-1s that double as both…
Dean Takahashi 2021-06-22 09:00:16 venturebeat.com Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Epic Online Services will be launching voice chat and anti-cheat services to all developers for free. Epic is also revealing its latest social numbers,…
Raul Mercado 2021-06-18 10:45:09 www.makeuseof.com Did you know you can change Siri's voice? These days, Apple gives you more voice options than ever. Tired of listening to the same ol' Siri voice again and again? You can actually change…
2021-06-15 12:01:00 www.engadget.com Last week, Google dropped a set of updates coming to Pixel phones and it's following up that news today with features heading to the broader Android ecosystem. This lot of new features will arrive mostly today…
Elliot Nesbo 2021-06-12 11:00:27 www.makeuseof.com Most people know about internet scams. If you visit the wrong website or open the wrong email, it’s surprisingly easy to wind up a being a victim of cybercrime. One type of scam that…
Jessibelle Garcia 2021-06-07 00:10:47 www.makeuseof.com Because some people just don't talk fast enough. Voice messages are great for when something is better explained through voice rather than text, or for when you're simply feeling too darn lazy to type.…
Jarosław Adamowski 2021-05-19 16:00:00 cryptonews.com Dan Larimer, former CTO of Block.one, during the announcement of Voice in June 2019. Source: a video screenshot. Block.one, the developer of EOSIO, an open-sourced blockchain software, has decided to close its decentralized social…
Julie Halpert 2021-05-17 13:43:09 feedproxy.google.com What startups, Amazon and Google are doing to win over automakers Once a fringe feature found only in luxury vehicles, voice recognition has moved into the mainstream as more automakers promise a seamless connection…
Kob Monney 2021-05-10 07:00:35 www.trustedreviews.com Voice control is now available for Deezer subscriptions on Apple HomePod and HomePod mini speakers, so iOS users who listen via Deezer can now play music hands-free. According to analytics conducted by Adobe Research,…
2021-05-05 08:37:00 www.techspot.com What just happened? Many musicians take issue with streaming services, usually over royalty payments, but a group of artists is protesting against something more customer-focused. The target of their anger is a speech recognition tool Spotify…
Manuviraj Godara 2021-05-01 07:00:23 www.makeuseof.com In its latest step to fight online abuse in Valorant, Riot Games will now review in-game voice logs of reported players. To fight online toxicity in Valorant, Riot Games will now record in-game voice…
John Awa-abuon 2021-04-30 10:00:18 www.makeuseof.com Try out Telegram's new Voice Chats update, which is, rather conveniently, quite similar to Clubhouse. Telegram has updated its Voice Chat feature, and the update includes various improvements and additions. This includes the ability…
Chaim Gartenberg 2021-04-29 08:30:00 www.theverge.com Roku has a strange relationship with remotes: it’s one of the worst offenders when it comes to branded buttons, with a seemingly ever-rotating list of streaming services — Netflix, Sling, even Rdio at one…
2021-04-27 17:30:01 www.gsmarena.com Telegram is rolling out its latest update, which features several new changes, including a new payment system, scheduled voice chats, and two — yes, two — new web versions. Payments 2.0 is an improvement to the…
Raul Mercado 2021-04-27 17:30:33 www.makeuseof.com Put down your phone and use your voice to control Spotify. Here's everything you need to know. Siri and Google Assistant aren't the only voice-controlled apps worth using any more thanks to Hey Spotify.…
Corinne Reichert 2021-04-23 20:43:00 www.cnet.com Skip the "Hey, Google" and go straight for what you want the smart assistant to do. Stephen Shankland/CNET` Google has reportedly kicked off internal testing for a new feature, called Guacamole, that would allow…
Napier Lopez 2021-04-19 23:02:54 thenextweb.com It was just a few days ago that we wrote about an experimental Facebook product that resembled Clubhouse, but it turns out Facebook isn’t done with the audio space. The company today announced a series…
Eli Blumenthal 2021-04-17 12:30:04 www.cnet.com Sarah Tew/CNET Roku is giving its remote a boost. On Tuesday the streaming giant announced its new Voice Remote Pro, a rechargeable controller for its various media players, streaming sticks and smart TVs. After appearing…
Matthew Wallaker 2021-04-16 18:00:24 www.makeuseof.com If you are looking for a simple solution to record sound, Windows 10 has the right tool for you: Voice Recorder. If your job or hobby requires you to create an audio recording, you can…
Molly Price 2021-04-13 13:11:22 www.cnet.com Blue by ADT devices now work with Google Assistant. ADT Last year, Google and ADT announced a partnership for smart home security sales and installation with Nest products. Beginning this month, ADT takes the…
2021-04-13 14:35:00 www.techspot.com What just happened? Roku has announced a new streaming device that ships with the company’s latest operating system, Roku OS 10, which is said to focus more on quality-of-life improvements rather than major new features. If…
Jeff Dunn 2021-04-13 09:00:35 arstechnica.com Roku's latest budget-level 4K media streamer, the Roku Express 4K+. It's still tiny, but now it can do 4K and HDR video, supports dual-band Wi-Fi, and has a remote with a mic for voice…
2021-04-09 11:30:31 www.engadget.com Robosen Robotics has teamed up with Hasbro to build an Optimus Prime collectible that can do more than just look cool in a display case. The companies' Optimus Prime is a programmable robot that can actually…
Sarah Perez 2021-04-07 19:51:03 feedproxy.google.com In 2019, Spotify began testing a hardware device for automobile owners it lovingly dubbed “Car Thing,” which allowed Spotify Premium users to play music and podcasts using voice commands that began with “Hey, Spotify.”…
