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Philip Kaplan started experimenting with headphone design this year. Now, he’s pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for our ears.

There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the nineteen-forties, he constituted something of a cultural phenomenon unto himself.

The artist and audio investigator, who calls himself a “private ear,” investigates crimes that are heard but not seen.

For Perplexity, the partnership with SoundHound marks the addition of another strong distribution channel expanding the reach of its LLM-driven search capabilities.

Netflix made sonic logos — the new version of jingles — trendy. But its success is hard to replicate.

For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.

Spotify Live is getting the ax.

Inside Spotify's turn away from podcasting, which has triggered a harsh winter for the small studios it helped support as they consolidate and lavish narrative productions wane.

Blind since he was very young, Daniel Kish is the world's foremost proponent of using vocal clicks to navigate

The purpose of this tutorial is to install PipeWire on Ubuntu Linux. PipeWire is a sound server that can handle playback and capturing of audio and video streams. It is a worthy replacement to other…

Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time - CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning

Ever wondered where you can get all the sounds from the different aspects of life? Well, wonder no more with this unique collection!Obsolete Sounds is an archive of sorts that is claimed by its creators as “the world’s biggest collection of obsolete and disappearing sounds,” contains over 150 different audio clips of rare and disappearing types. The collections houses rare clips from retro video games, recordings of old-fashioned transport, and plenty of mechanical sounds from outdated ...

Appliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right?

Machine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapes

Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s room. At first, I took it for a video

Whether you just need to crop a photo or are ready to edit an ambitious video, you can get the job done without paying a dime.

A Kavli Prize–winning scientist details the magic of transforming vibrations into sound in the inner ear.

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Google has added a new feature that lets you figure out which song is stuck in your head by humming, whistling or singing -- a much more useful version of

The BBC has unveiled its incredible library of bizarre and obscure sound effects. Better still, it's all available for free download.

Radio stations in United States have evolved since their early twentieth-century origins. In 1920 8MK started operations in Detroit; after it, thousands of private and public radio have operated in the United States. The lists of radio stations in the US are organized in a number of ways; some of them are the following:

The storied career of the centenarian and acoustician, Leo Beranek.

In this guide, you'll learn how to record, edit, and export your podcast episodes using Audacity - free software available for both Mac and Windows.

How to reduce storage size without losing information.

A look back at some of the year's key voice search and virtual assistant metrics.

Inside the world of audio branding with Skype’s new pings, bounces, and pops

Audiophile On lists the best audio codecs for your music if you want the best sound quality, including descriptions of FLAC, OGG, ALAC, DSD, and MQA.

myNoise sets the standard for online background noise machines and interactive soundscapes.

The ongoing fight against tape hiss has proven a useful creative tension for the music industry—even if you’re not into lo-fi music recorded on a four-track.

With the album on the wane and attention spans shorter than ever, the first 30 seconds of of a song matter more than.  Not only do they need to capture. Continue reading

Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.

YouTube channel where he 'composes longform space and scifi ambience.' Or what he otherwise calls 'ambient geek sleep aids.' Click on the video above, and you can get lulled to sleep listening to the ambient droning sound--get ready Blade Runner fans!-- heard in Rich Deckard's apartment.

Designer Chanmi Lee rethinks home entertainment in an all-new, never-before-seen format known as the Wind Sound Bar. Don't be confused by the name, however... this is anything but the sound bar you're probably imagining. The design adopts a shape similar to that of a trumpet or other wind instrument - a familiar form for an

Whoever said wireless audio had to "sit" hasn't seen the Aloft speaker by designer Hyeonil Jeong. The alternative design explores an entirely new way to save valuable counter or desk space. It's A-shaped form and easy-to-install, built-in hanging bracket makes it possible to tuck it under a shelf or ledge. Being wedged underneath one of

We present Deep Voice 3, a fully-convolutional attention-based neural text-to-speech (TTS) system. Deep Voice 3 matches state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis systems in naturalness while...

China's tech titan Baidu just upgraded Deep Voice. The voice-cloning AI now works faster than ever and can swap a speaker's gender or change their accent.

Take the rough with the smooth: how the sound of a voice is multisensory, and creates interior meaning through metaphor