Published on: 2025-04-24 23:35:41
Looking to upgrade a bedroom, office, or kitchen with smart TV capabilities without breaking the bank? The Insignia 32-inch F20 Series Fire TV packs all the streaming power of more expensive sets into a compact, budget-friendly package. With built-in Fire TV capabilities, Alexa voice control, and Apple AirPlay support, it delivers premium smart features at a fraction of the cost of larger TVs. See at Amazon Smart Streaming for Under $100? Yes, Really. Amazon has marked down the Insignia 32-in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 02:00:00
VoicePatrol is unveiling its real-time AI voice protection technology for game studios to make gaming communities safer. The company said it has a straightforward, effective approach to real-time voice protection. Partnering with studios like Trass Games, creators of Yeeps: Hide & Seek, VoicePatrol was created to make gaming communities safer without the corporate jargon, the company said. In the world of multiplayer gaming, unchecked extreme toxicity isn’t just annoying—it’s a direct hit to p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 07:06:40
Former Y Combinator startup telli is helping companies alleviate the bottleneck that occurs when a high-volume of customers try to, for example, book appointments. Its AI voice agents kick in and handle basic operations while handing off more-complex processes to human operators. The Berlin-based startup has now raised $3.6 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures and Y Combinator. Telli says its AI voice agents can perform a number of tasks, including automated callb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 10:18:23
Whether in Ancient Greek parodies, Shakespeare's subtle jabs at the haughty upper class or Jon Stewart's takedowns of the latest Washington absurdities, humor can be a razor-edged weapon that shapes public opinion. Last weekend, we were reminded again of comedy's ability to strike at the rich and powerful when someone hacked Silicon Valley crosswalks to play synthetic voice impersonations of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. "Hi, this is Elon Musk," the voice impersonating the Trump ally and feder
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 15:11:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Mobvoi TicNote is available now for $159.99, but monthly and annual subscription plans apply to most features. The TicNote's AI features are impressive, the hardware is small and light, and recordings are accurate, even from across the room. The Pro subscription model appears overwhelming, but TicNote users get 300 credits free per month. View now at Amazon If you read my coverage of smartwatches, then you're likely familiar with past reviews of Mobvoi's TicWatch mod
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 19:46:35
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Anthropic is getting ready to introduce a new “voice mode” feature that could rival OpenAI’s similar option within ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg. The AI voice assistant will reportedly live within its Claude AI chatbot and could start rolling out “as soon as this month.” According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to roll out three English-language v
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 15:00:15
ZDNET's key takeaways The Mobvoi TicNote is available now for $159.99, but monthly and annual subscription plans apply to most features. The TicNote's AI features are impressive, the hardware is small and light, and recordings are accurate, even from across the room. The Pro subscription model appears overwhelming, but TicNote users get 300 credits free per month. View now at Amazon If you read my coverage of smartwatches, then you're likely familiar with past reviews of Mobvoi's TicWatch mod
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 11:40:00
WTF?! A number of pedestrians in Silicon Valley got a surprise recently when crosswalks started to spout strange messages from what sounded like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. It turned out that the systems had been hacked and these were imitations of the billionaires' voices. Videos taken at locations in Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto showed the voices being played when the crosswalk buttons were pressed. One of the videos includes a voice that sounds very similar to Zuckerberg, ident
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 10:40:59
Over the weekend, crosswalk pedestrian signals in the backyard of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk were hacked to play voices imitating their likeness. But they were not exactly kind to the billionaires, instead offering a commentary on the heightened polarization and distrust of the two leaders who have become more influential than ever in today’s society and Washington in particular. In one video posted to TikTok, after the crosswalk button is pressed, it begins to say, “It’s normal to feel unco
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 02:30:00
Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. VoicePen is a native app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro that transcribes your lectures, meetings, and any sort of speech into clear notes. All of the transcriptions run through OpenAI’s Whisper model, making it accurate and fast. It also offers more than just meeting transcriptions, and can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 15:38:04
Micorosft AI voice assistants like Copilot Voice make it easier to get help with everyday tasks by resembling a conversation with a human. However, these experiences are often limited to English speakers. Microsoft is changing that soon. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it is adding two native Spanish voices to Copilot Voice, allowing Spanish speakers to have free-flowing conversations with AI. Copilot Voice's perks include being able to interrupt it mid-conversation, having multi-turn dialogue
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:07:17
Imagine receiving a call from a high-ranking official, urgently requesting a wire transfer to resolve a national crisis. This was the case for several wealthy entrepreneurs in Italy recently, leaving them in an awkward position. However, it was in fact fraudsters impersonating the Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, trying to trick individuals into transferring large sums of money. This is an example of vishing—a growing cybersecurity threat that’s at risk of going nuclear thanks to AI.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 06:51:00
We test wireless headphones based on six key criteria: design, sound quality, noise-canceling performance, voice-calling performance, features and value. Design We assess not only how comfortable the wireless headphones fit (their ergonomics) but their build quality and how well included features like touch control are implemented. We also look at water- and dust-resistance ratings, but only a few full-size headphones have water- and dust-resistant (IP) ratings. Models with a more durable buil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 23:00:00
On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech. Amazon claims that Sonic’s performance is competitive with frontier voice models from OpenAI and Google on benchmarks measuring speed, speech recognition, and conversational quality. Nova Sonic is Amazon’s answer to newer AI voice models such as the model powering ChatGPT’s Voice Mode, which feel more natural to speak with than the more rigid models from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 15:10:11
Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication. It's since morphed into a distinctive singing style. But can animals also yodel? According to a new paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, several species of monkey dwelling in the rainforests of Latin America employ "voice breaks" in their calls t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 07:00:00
The quality of AI-generated voices is good enough for things like creating audiobooks and podcasts, having articles read aloud to you, and basic customer support. But many businesses don’t think AI voice tech is quite reliable enough to deploy. That’s why two MIT grads, Moin Nadeem and Nikhil Murthy (pictured above), founded Phonic, a company offering an end-to-end voice stack to increase synthetic voice reliability while decreasing latency. Nadeem and Murthy met at MIT, and have known each ot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 13:32:34
Tinder has teamed up with OpenAI to bring an AI voice-activated flirting game to the dating app. As the company revealed in a press release, the awkwardly-named "Game Game" uses OpenAI's voice mode and GPT-4o reasoning model to encourage users to roleplay various meet-cute scenarios and get points based on how good they are at flirting. (Tinder assured in that same press release that the voice data gleaned from the game wouldn't be used to train any new AI models.) In an Instagram video, Spenc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 11:21:03
Actor Val Kilmer—star of Top Gun, The Doors, and Batman Forever, among other roles—has died at the age of 65 of pneumonia, Deadline Hollywood reports. Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015 and while chemotherapy and two tracheotomies helped him defeat it, the procedures destroyed his voice. He spoke in a rasp or used an electric voice box for the remainder of his life and largely left acting. (He made a brief cameo in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, for which his voice was digitally altered
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 12:00:00
Gladia, an AI transcription and audio intelligence provider, launched Solaria, a next-gen automatic speech recognition (ASR) model designed to redefine real-time communications for call centers and other voice-first platforms. Solaria now empowers businesses to enhance and expand their customer service operations with AI-powered voice technology that delivers unmatched language coverage—supporting 40+ languages previously inaccessible with other solutions—without compromising quality or speed.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 04:00:00
“OK, so you have to say it with a smile, no matter what you’re saying, because the shape of your mouth makes a difference.” Kristen DiMercurio is teaching me how to sound like my Bluetooth speaker. “The resonance is in your chest and throat, it’s very deep, very low. You have to enunciate every consonant. I do a slight amount of airiness. I’m practically singing it, it’s very melodic. And there’s a certain rhythm: It usually goes up and then down at the end. You get that unnatural, clipped soun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 22:27:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Bose QuietComfort Earbuds are on sale now for $129 They're a reboot of the previous model with an even more comfortable, light fit, improved ANC, and booming, rich sound The app is a little clunky, the touch controls take some getting use to, and the voice commands can be finicky. View now at Amazon View now at Bose more buying choices The Bose QuietComfort Earbuds (2024) are on sale for $149 at Bose, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. Bose will offer these earbuds for t
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Turn-Taking is a big challenge AI Voice Agents are rapidly evolving, powering critical use-cases such as customer support automation, virtual assistants, gaming, and remote collaboration platforms. For these voice-driven interactions to feel natural and practical, the underlying audio pipeline must be resilient to noise, responsive, and accurate—especially in real-time scenarios. In a typical deployment, audio streams originate from diverse endpoints like mobile applications, web browsers, or
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 16:52:03
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 18:33:00
Amazon's big 2025 Alexa announcement hit late last month, and we were there to cover the demos and new features. The new AI upgrade is aimed at making Alexa more conversational and at letting the virtual assistant tackle more-complex commands. But not everyone is jumping for joy. A new change to privacy settings, in preparation for Alexa Plus, is making waves. Starting March 28, Alexa Echo users won't be able to block their devices from sending all voice recordings to Amazon for analysis. Just
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 06:49:43
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most job candidates know to dress nicely for Zoom interviews and to arrange a professional-looking background for the camera. But a new Yale study suggests they also ought to test the quality of their microphones. A tinny voice caused by a cheap mic, researchers say, could sink th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 07:04:54
When Twin came out of stealth in January 2024, AI agents were more of a theoretical concept than a reality. Today, the Paris-based company is releasing an automation agent in partnership with Qonto, the fintech startup that offers business bank accounts to more than 500,000 customers across Europe. If you want to automate repetitive tasks, there are already several ways to tackle these problems. Some companies use API-based, no-code or low-code automation products like Zapier. Others rely on RP
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 15:35:45
The navigation app Waze is dropping Google Assistant support for iPhones , citing "ongoing difficulties" with integrating the service. The company says it plans on replacing it with an "enhanced voice integration solution" at some point in the future. Google Assistant will still work for Android users. This is happening a full year after iPhone users began reporting issues related to Google Assistant, with many people noting that voice commands were totally broken. Waze says that it has "not be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 23:54:05
Since the integration of Google Assistant for Waze on iOS in 2020, iPhone users have faced ongoing issues that the company has struggled to resolve for “over a year,” Waze wrote in a post, apologizing for the “prolonged inconvenience.” On Wednesday, the navigation app officially discontinued the feature. Many users had previously reported on Reddit that when they click the microphone button and speak, there is no response, even though Assistant seems to detect their voice. As a replacement, t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 15:37:00
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode was the first major AI-powered voice assistant to mimic a human conversation, addressing typical voice assistant shortcomings. The latest update makes the conversation experience even more seamless and natural. What's new with Advanced Voice Mode? On Monday, OpenAI shared a video announcing the latest Advanced Voice Mode update, which enhances its human-like conversational capabilities, allowing it to interrupt you less when you are talking. T
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 22:42:38
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode was the first major AI-powered voice assistant to mimic a human conversation, addressing typical voice assistant shortcomings. The latest update makes the conversation experience even more seamless and natural. What's new with Advanced Voice Mode? On Monday, OpenAI shared a video announcing the latest Advanced Voice Mode update, which enhances its human-like conversational capabilities, allowing it to interrupt you less when you are talking. T
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