Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. More on that in another essay. Another key argument is distribution.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look for Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft to continue spending a lot of time and effort in this area, liberating us from our hardware prisons. . FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. About $270 on Amazon. 120 on Amazon Headphones. About $100 on Amazon. 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wasn't able to go to the 2010 CES Consumer Electronics Show this year, but I'm assured by TreeHugger , which reviews the show each year, especially the new green tech gadgets, that it was largely nothing much new. The CES show takes place in Las Vegas every year and showcases all the new electronics gizmos.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records audio, transcribes spoken words into text, captures slides, and generates summaries – all in real-time. Pricing : Amazon Rekognition offers a free tier with limited usage and a pay-as-you-go pricing model that may be more accessible for nonprofits with a limited budget.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you just want to review the content later on, don’t worry. And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. Audios, files. So this is me in the Amazon. So I was working in the Amazon for a really long time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape.

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