Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate cuts average lag to 2.3 seconds across 60 languages, adding speaker diarization, bilingual display, and translation.
E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio using BirdNET-Go - arnegiacomo/fugleramme
Keep essential ffmpeg commands close at hand, from stream inspection and lossless remuxing to CRF encoding, filters, subtitles, and GPU acceleration.
Audacity 4.0 Audacity 4 rebuilds the application interface on Qt and introduces many new quality-of-life improvements, including a new clip-editing model. Most Audacity 3 workflows remain available...
OpenShot 4.0 adds professional color grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative workflows.
There is a hidden track baked into almost every blockbuster, a frozen eight-dollar toll, and a company the market still calls a shaky-chair vendor.
I tried to listen to an album last week. The whole thing, start to finish, like a functioning adult in the 90s. I made it four tracks before a Slack ping, a WhatsApp text, and a push notification from Hinge. By track six I was scrolling through IG. I started with conscientiously…
Convert MP4 video to MP3 audio from the Linux command line with ffmpeg, including quality settings, lossless extraction, trimming, and batch conversion.
Practical ffmpeg examples for converting between formats, compressing video with CRF, extracting audio, trimming clips, resizing video, and batch processing files on Linux.
Sloane Crosley, the author of “Grief Is for People,” reports on misophonia, the neurophysiological disorder characterized by a severe aversion to sound.
From Altadena to the Pacific Palisades, Shaver Lake to Paradise, a series of devastating wildfires in recent years have forced communities and experts to rethin
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations — spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDaVPfpQvPI Times have changed so much, we’ve got people walking on the streets with their ANC turned on to zone out, but are unaware of the risks motorists can pose. With active noise-cancelling headphones becoming increasingly common, the sounds…
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
Nostalgia and digital burnout are driving a new rush for Apple's retired iPods.
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Enter text and choose a voice and language to generate speech. The app will output the generated audio.
Top 20 Voice AI Blogs and News Websites 2025: The Ultimate Resource Guide for latest research, tools, and industry insights
Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?
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.
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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…
This is the Fourier Transform. You can thank it for providing the music you stream every day, squeezing down the images you see on the Internet into tiny
The ubiquity (and quality) of available home recording software has dramatically lessened the cost of DIY recording, but with so many options available, it can be difficult to know exactly. Continue reading
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…
Appliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right?
The Shazam music recognition application made it finally possible to put a name to that song on the radio. But how does this magical miracle actually work? In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Jovan Jovanovic sheds light on the principles of audio signal…
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.
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A Kavli Prize–winning scientist details the magic of transforming vibrations into sound in the inner ear.
This step-by-step guide explains how you can record streaming audio from music stations on the Internet using free software.
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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…
The storied career of the centenarian and acoustician, Leo Beranek.