Mashable Tech

MAY 13, 2025

I often stayed quiet, kept my opinions to myself, and doubted whether my voice really mattered. Whether it’s speaking up at doctor’s appointments, advocating for support, or questioning what’s best for their well-being, I quickly learned that my voice is not only powerful but also necessary.

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Futurism

JUNE 8, 2025

The next time you call a car dealership, the voice on the other end may not belong to a human. As TechCrunch reports , the founders of Toma, an AI voice agent startup, pivoted from pitching to healthcare and finance companies to fielding calls from automotive salespeople desperate to offload some of their labor to AI agents.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

Specifically, Daffys new tools include a Quick Donate feature, which converts free text or voice commands into an immediate donation. Daffy will need some direction (users choose a charity, donation amount, etc.),

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 26, 2024

Watt Hamlett, Rob Jordan, Daniel Dibble, and Matt Devine discuss the Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud one year after its release.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Karen Cincotti, Mary Sorensen and Noel Beebe discuss the findings of a survey evaluating the peer-to-peer fundraising landscape in 2024.

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Ars Technica

MAY 15, 2025

The FBI is warning people to be vigilant of an ongoing malicious messaging campaign that uses AI-generated voice audio to impersonate government officials in an attempt to trick recipients into clicking on links that can infect their computers. Deepfakes use AI to mimic the voice and speaking characteristics of a specific individual.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Here are five signs youre being talked over in meetings, plus practical strategies to reclaim your voice and authority. What to do: Keep a strong, clear voice. You can also enlist allies ahead of time to support your points, creating an environment where your voice is heard the first time. This isn’t your imagination.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 17, 2025

In 2024, Google removed features like media alarms and voice messages, but that was just the start. The full list of removals is still available on its support page (spotted by 9to5Google ), but there's now a new batch of features at the top. Here's a rundown of what's on the chopping block.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Here's how your appeal's voice can encourage giving. Your fundraising appeals are often the only thing your donor sees from your nonprofit.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

harnessed NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA Riva to build new AI-accelerated voice ordering agents in under four months. s voice AI agents are already being deployed across its brands, including in call centers to handle phone orders when demand surges during events like game days. Rollout of AI Solutions Underway Yum!s

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Fast Company Tech

MAY 8, 2025

Scammers are using deepfake voices, caller ID spoofing, and machine learning to target victims with frightening precision. But telecom providers and regulators are deploying AI defenses of their own to stop the surge in fraud. Scam calls are turning the world on its head. The Global Anti-Scam

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

SEE ALSO: 2025 movie preview: All the films you'll want to know about Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp ( Marcel the Shell with Shoes On ), Lilo & Stitch once again tells the story of renegade alien Stitch (voiced by Chris Sanders , who co-directed and voiced Stitch in the original film) who crash-lands in Hawaii.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 3, 2025

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 that acoustically resemble human yodelingi.e., ultra-yodels" that boast a much wider frequency range.

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Engadget

MAY 13, 2025

Background Sounds, Personal Voice, Vehicle Motion Cues and Eye Tracking get updates While we're on the topic of sound, Apple is updating its Background Sounds feature that can help those with tinnitus by playing white noise (or other types of audio) to combat symptoms. Apple is also adding Spanish language support for the US and Mexico.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

Be Real: 4 Human Essentials in Fundraising Campaigns Instead of appealing to the average and homogenizing appeals campaigns, focus on creating and illuminating your nonprofits distinct voice. Human energy should be invested in the campaign elements that require emotional connection. Let AI handle the administrative and analytical lifting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2024

However, there’s a great opportunity to stand out simply by having a distinctive human voice. How can nonprofits deliver genuinely valuable, well-crafted content that features a human voice, while taking advantage of the efficiencies offered by AI? Even better, develop a bit of a distinctive voice.

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Engadget

MAY 29, 2025

He also said during the annual shareholders meeting that the company will be focusing on "deepening the experience and making Meta AI the leading personal AI with an emphasis on personalization, voice conversations and entertainment" this year.

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Fast Company Tech

MAY 13, 2025

. “Apple is helping to pioneer a new interface paradigm, where brain signals are formally recognized alongside touch, voice and typing.” ” Historically, users have interacted with tech devices through keyboards, mice, and more recently, touch and voice.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 13, 2025

Spotify is turning up the volume on personalization with a new feature that lets Premium users make real-time music requests using just their voice. As audio platforms race to deepen engagement, Spotify’s voice-interactive DJ could redefine how users experience music on demand.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 13, 2025

This technology enables Apple to translate these signals into actions like selecting icons on the screens of iPhones , iPads, and Apple Vision Pro "without the need for physical movement or voice commands," according to the press release.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 31, 2025

In other AI news, Anthropic finally gets voice mode, AI influencers go viral, Anthropic's CEO warns of mass layoffs, and an AI-generated kangaroo. More AI product news: Claude's new voice mode and the beginning of the agentic browser era After last week's barrage, this week was lighter on the volume of AI news.

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Engadget

MAY 20, 2025

It showed an AI-powered voice that sounds more natural and less robotic, with subtler nuances. They all used the same voice, helping create the illusion that its the same person. ." Googles Tulsee Doshi showed a quick demo of the Gemini 2.5 TTS models onstage in Mountain View.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

The System Assistant allows users to run real-time diagnostics, get recommendations on performance optimizations, or control system software and peripherals all via simple voice or text commands. asr , Maxine Studio Voice RAG: Llama-3.2-NV-EmbedQA-1B-v2 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

With five microphones and some serious audio magic, your voice comes through clearly without you needing to shout like you're reporting live from a storm. And here's the kicker.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 20, 2025

The sequel to 2016's Zootopia , which took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Zootopia 2 picks back up with rookie cops Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman). The entire teaser is scored by a techno bop, which comes courtesy of a band of lemmings. Zootopia 2 hits theaters Nov.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 21, 2025

Neuroscientists are striving to give a voice to people unable to speak in a fast-advancing quest to harness brainwaves to restore or enhance physical abilities.

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Futurism

MAY 27, 2025

Quite a lot of voices say 'you can only train on my content, [if you] first ask.' But he then went on to suggest that those same artists are getting greedy. "I I think the creative community wants to go a step further," Clegg then charged.

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Engadget

MARCH 25, 2025

The first of those, the voice-activated Meeting Agent, can schedule follow-up calls and draft emails for you. On Tuesday, the company introduced the Otter Meeting Agent. It's part of a suite of three new AI helpers designed to assist a variety of different users.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

And if you love yelling at your devices, built-in Alexa voice control lets you adjust settings without touching a remote. Adaptive Sound enhances dialogue, while the Active Voice Amplifier keeps voices clear, even in chaotic scenes. Price: $634.95 $1,399 Retailer: Walmart Sound Channels: 7.1.2

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

In a series first, the Doctor and Belinda are turned into animated characters by the hand-drawn Mr. Ring-A-Ding (voiced by Alan Cumming). This time around, the TARDIS is heading everywhere from 1952 to the 51st century, taking a pit stop at the 803rd Interstellar Song Contest, a sci-fi Eurovision send-up, along the way. But that's not all!

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Futurism

APRIL 22, 2025

Recently, the voice actor for Aloy in the "Horizon" video games said she was unnerved by an AI imitation of her performance as the character. Background actors, too, have voiced concerns about how they had their bodies fully digitized for indefinite use by studios. They're also emblematic of AI's inroads into the acting industry. "The

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Mashable Tech

MAY 29, 2025

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. X's encrypted DMs feature was added in 2023 following Musk's acquisition , in a move meant to rival messaging on platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 30, 2025

Credit: Screenshot courtesy of Meta Full-duplex Voice Mode This one isn’t particularly new or unique, but it's the first such implementation for Meta’s AI. For the uninitiated, full-duplex voice mode describes the feature when you can chat with AI in real-time. You talk, it responds, you respond back, so on and so forth.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In 2019, another LA resident — musician and voice actor Rosie Okumura — decided she'd chase down a scammer who bilked her mother out of $500 via a Windows pop-up window on her PC. Okumura still favors the simple home-based style, where the humor comes from her wasting scammers' time via voice acting. and abroad.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The new scrollable feed is designed to boost visibility and discovery for creators experimenting with new formats, while also helping readers stumble across new voices beyond their inboxes. Substack isnt built around any one mediumits built around creators.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 20, 2025

Gemini generates answers in her voice, grabs appointment details from past messages, and inserts pricing from her Drive files. It adapts to your tone — whether you’re casual or formal — and pulls in relevant details, so replies feel more natural. It’s fast, frictionless, and a little uncanny.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Department at Stanford University focuses on human-centered AI, emphasizing the need for diverse voices in AI development to address ethical concerns. Your voice is critical to ensuring these tools are designed and built in partnership with our user community.

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