9 Best Articles in 2022
Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth
The Future of Social Audio: Startups, Roadmap, Business Models, and a Forecast
Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth
6 min read · 2021-01-31 · This market analysis includes a trend analysis and forecast of the rapidly growing social audio market. I have been a technology industry analyst in relevant markets for over a decade at tech research…
Reader View · Shared by 237, including Tarik ESSAADI, Ann Handley, FANZO 🧢 NFT 365 Podcast, Dave McClure, Jim Marous 💯, Mari Smith, Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Matt Navarra, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Thomas Power, Samantha Kelly, Chris Messina, AI, Brian Honigman, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, hiten.eth, Scott Monty
descript.com
Transcribe audio and video, edit by editing text
descript.com
1 min read · From 2017 · The fastest and easiest way for podcasters and audio producers to transcribe, edit, and collaborate.
Reader View · Shared by 286, including Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Robert Scoble, Dennis Yu, Tarik ESSAADI, Tobias van Schneider, hiten.eth, Merlin Mann, Nathan Baschez, Daniel Jalkut, string 🍗 from the chubbiverse, Benedict Evans, ben, Derek Featherstone, Job, zeldman, Kent C. Dodds 💿 #RemixConf, Brian Lovin, John Jantsch, Chris Messina, Dan Wahlin
rev.com
Transcribe Audio to Text
rev.com
~11 min read · From 2016 · Online audio transcription, video captions and document translation services. For immigration, business, legal, academic and personal needs. Transcribe audio to text, create captions and subtitles for…
Reader View · Shared by 149, including Sara Soueidan, Hrag, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Lawson, Kaleigh Moore, Andy Matuschak (afk thru 05/30), Monica Burns, Ed.D. #EdTech, Rene Ritchie, debbie millman, Joel Klettke, hiten.eth, Jonah Lupton, Val Geisler, Pat Flynn, Wes Bos, Harry Stebbings, Kim Garst - LIVE Video Evangelist, Simo Ahava, Thomas Frank, Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur
The Verge
The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
The Verge
5 min read · 2021-07-16 · Voice notes with viral dreams
Reader View · Shared by 624, including Tactical Tech, Jean-Patrick, Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺 See you at #HM22 ⚙️, Matthew Guay, Matt Navarra, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jonathan Kogan, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Katja Evertz, Chad Underwood, Nicolas Dengler
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
A Guide To Audio Visualization With JavaScript And GSAP (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
~19 min read · Mar 3rd · What started as a case study turned into a guide to visualizing audio with JavaScript. Although the output demos are in React, Jhey Tompkins isn’t going to dwell on the React side of things too much.…
OpenAI
Jukebox
OpenAI
8 min read · From 2020 · We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along…
Reader View · Shared by 502, including Paolo Pedercini, Brian Roemmele, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Mario Klingemann 🇺🇦, Ilya Sutskever, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Danielle 👩🏻💻, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Ryan Hoover, дэн, Lukas Biewald, Mike Tamir, PhD, Brian Ahier, Christian Müller, Kevin Kelly, Richard Joerges, AIKing.Eth - Vincent Boucher, Joel Califa, Rami Ismail (رامي)
Demis Hassabis
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Demis Hassabis
5 min read · From 2016 · This post presents WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms. We show that WaveNets are able to generate speech which mimics any human voice and which sounds more natural than the best existing Text-to-Speech systems, reducing the gap with human performance by over 50%.
We also demonstrate that the same network can be used to synthesize other audio signals such as music, and present some striking samples of automatically generated piano pieces.
Reader View · Shared by 113, including Gideonro, Usershell, Ahmad Ragab, Tarik ESSAADI, Jeff Heuer, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Thomas Telandro, Pete Skomoroch, Jens-Christian Fischer, Graeme Anderson, Andrea Desiato, Merkstatt, Dominik Grolimund, Dayyan Smith, Dean Anthony Gratton, Tom Connor, Hannes Gassert, Alex Barrera, Vojtěch Hýža, Alain
The New York Times
The Era of Audio Creators Has Arrived
The New York Times
4 min read · 2021-03-04 · A new company called Audio Collective has launched to help build businesses on Clubhouse as brands rush to leverage the platform.
Reader View · Shared by 159, including Christoph Trappe, Merkstatt, Arielle Pardes, Ryan Hoover, Craig Brown, PhD, Jean-Patrick, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Harpreet Singh, Sam Maule, Matt Navarra, Jonathan Kogan, FANZO 🧢 NFT 365 Podcast, Taylor Lorenz, Cade Metz
descript.com
Descript - Transcription and Audio Editing
descript.com
1 min read · From 2017 · Descript is the world's first audio word processor, letting you view and edit audio as text. Superpowers for anyone that works with voice audio.
Reader View · Shared by 57, including Derek Featherstone, Stephanie A Kowalski, Nick Floro, Sebastian Raschka, Brian Roemmele, Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Hugo Amsellem, Christine Gritmon ❤️ #ChatAboutBrand, Logan Lyles, Andrew Wilkinson, Martin Hoffmann
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Phys.org
First audio recorded on Mars reveals two speeds of sound
Phys.org
3 min read · Apr 1st · The first audio recordings on Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said Friday.
tubefilter.com
Meta and Spotify are shifting resources away from their Clubhouse competitors
tubefilter.com
2 min read · Apr 19th · Meta is moving resources away from its Live Audio Rooms, and Spotify has killed the Creator Fund for its Clubhouse competitor Greenroom.
Reader View · Shared by 104, including Matt Navarra, Amanda Webb - Digital Marketer 👩💻
The Verge
Apple’s hidden setting instantly makes your video and audio calls sound better
The Verge
3 min read · May 18th · Turn this on everywhere you can, ASAP.
Social Media Today
Twitter Tests New Option to Start a Space About a Chosen Tweet
Social Media Today
2 min read · May 12th · The option could be a new way to spark more audio discussion in the app - or it could lead to more harassment and abuse.
Reader View · Shared by 76, including Mari Smith, Andrew Hutchinson, Matt Navarra, Keith Keller, Deirdre Breakenridge
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TechCrunch
Amazon launches a Polly WordPress plugin that turns blog posts into audio, including podcasts
TechCrunch
5 min read · From 2018 · Amazon today is launching a new Amazon Polly WordPress plugin that gives your blog a voice by creating audio versions of your posts. The resulting audio can..
Reader View · Shared by 145, including Christian Müller, AJ Ghergich, Thomas Power, Ward Plunet, Mike Taylor, Tarik ESSAADI, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Kim Schläpfer, Damien Van Achter, Simone Corsi 💻🚀
Open Culture
900 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
Open Culture
From 2015 · Download 700 free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Reader View · Shared by 104, including Mark Kaigwa, Eric L. Barnes, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Chris Isak , sircharlsxavier, Carl Morris, Tarik ESSAADI, omusgul, Tauno, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, slumos, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे
The Washington Post
Audio: Trump’s full Jan. 2 call with Ga. secretary of state
The Washington Post
2021-01-03 · In a one-hour phone call on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 with Georgia election officials, President Trump insisted he won the state and threatened vague legal consequences if the officials did not act. This audio has been edited to remove the name of an individual about whom the president makes unsubstantiated allegations.
Shared by 448, including Michael Beschloss, Ida Bae Wells, Hiroko Tabuchi, Frank Luntz, Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻, Brent Toderian, Ezra Klein, Josh Elman, Brian Stelter, erik spiekermann, Carl Zimmer, Kara Swisher, Jason Stanley, Scott Hanselman 🇺🇦, 🇺🇦 Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー|#StandWithUkraine, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, alan rusbridger, Anne Applebaum, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Brian Klaas
Stratechery
Clubhouse’s Inevitability
Stratechery
~15 min read · 2021-02-15 · Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
Reader View · Shared by 504, including Konrad Weber, Thomas Power, 👨🏻💻☕️, Scott Monty, Matt Navarra, Erika Heald | Content Marketing Consultant, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Mathew Ingram, Chris Isak , Gerd Leonhard, Andrew Hutchinson, Christiane Link, Chris Messina, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Kara Swisher, Renee DiResta, Brooke B. Sellas, David Bauer, Semil
Phys.org
First audio recorded on Mars reveals two speeds of sound
Phys.org
3 min read · Apr 1st · The first audio recordings on Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said Friday.
youtube.com
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
youtube.com
From 2018 · Official audio for Whitey On the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron, released on Ace Records. Subscribe to the official Ace channel for more classics, lost gems, playli...
Shared by 103, including Noah Chestnut, Daph_NYC_, Hunter Walker, Kyle McDonald, Jamil Smith جميل كريم, Nick Adkins, Federico Ardila, corey robin, Jason Stanley, Dr Adam Rutherford, Chris O'Brien, Noah Iliinsky, Kelsey D. Atherton, Michael Seemann, Kevin M. Kruse, Yo Mama and Yo Cousin Too, David Madden, дэн, Samira El Ouassil, Steve Silberman
a16z
The Next Phase of Social? Listen Closely
a16z
10 min read · 2020-12-07 · We’re on the cusp of a wave of audio innovation that will rival the explosion of video apps. Now new social + audio startups are stretching beyond podcasts.
Reader View · Shared by 156, including Aamir Raz, Andrew Chen 🎮, Ines Bieler, John Nosta, Chris Messina, Jean-Patrick, Katja Evertz
audiomass.co
AudioMass
audiomass.co
From 2020 · AudioMass is a free full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool
Shared by 82, including Dion Almaer, Cameron Yick, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Ahrbil, Tarik ESSAADI, Chris Heilmann, Nils Hitze, Mike Taylor, Jeff Jarvis, Balda, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦
Fast Company
These social audio upstarts are trying to build a better Clubhouse
Fast Company
4 min read · 2021-06-24 · Inspired by the audio-first social network and frustrated by the current state of social media, entrepreneurs are turning to the human voice to create connection online.
Reader View · Shared by 48, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Thomas Power, Tarik ESSAADI, Matt Navarra