audio

Oreja de Van Gogh 是一款 Product Hunt 上的新产品，可在 ChatGPT 说话时自动暂停 Apple Music，实现语音助手与音乐播放的无缝切换。

oTAPE is an open, self-contained file format for digital cassettes, packaging two fixed-length sides of continuous audio plus labels and artwork into a single .otape file, complete with a browser-based Web Deck player and tape-sound emulation.

Voice Arena launched Turing TTS, a benchmark that measures how often listeners mistake AI speech for human speech via a 'Fool Rate'; even the best model, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, fools listeners only about 10% of the time.

WIRED partnered with Ikea to test chaining 150 of its $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speakers into a single synchronized audio system, successfully linking all 149 working units without breaking the connection.

CHiME-3 背景噪音录音现已在 Zenodo 上以 CC BY 4.0 协议开放提供，包含六通道平板阵列在公交、咖啡馆、步行区和街道四种真实环境中录制的 16 kHz 音频，允许商用及再分发。

Anker's Soundcore Space 2 over-ear headphones hit their lowest price ever at 18% off, alongside deals on the Liberty 5 earbuds and AeroFit 2 open earbuds.

作者在 MacBook Pro (M5 Pro, 64GB) 上用 MPS 后端运行 0.9B 的 MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize 模型，对 AMI 测试集一段 17.5 分钟、4 人会议做单次转写+说话人分离，仅用 12 分钟（约 0.68x 实时）完成，4 位说话人全部识别，说话人混淆率仅 0.08%，DER 为 15.4%，并能正确处理重叠对话。

Goldmund's new Mimesis Statement flagship analog preamplifier costs $240,000 and requires three separate chassis, with a full reference system totaling nearly $1.5 million. The Swiss maker continues its uncompromising, ultra-luxury approach to high-end audio engineering.

Bose announced it is acquiring lifestyle audio brand Skullcandy, which will operate as a separate company within Bose's Premium Consumer Audio business and remain based in Park City, Utah, building on their existing Sound by Bose licensing partnership.

Serato DJ is now available on iPhone and iPad, bringing the company's pro-level DJ features, stem separation, and support for over 120 hardware controllers to mobile for the first time. It can be purchased as a standalone license for $149 or via a $14.99/month bundle.

A 2026 buying guide reviewing the best hearing aids tested, covering pricing, insurance and Medicare coverage options, and how to choose between prescription and over-the-counter devices from brands like Jabra, ReSound, and Apple.

This paper explores activation steering for automatic speech recognition (ASR), finding that supervised optimization of steering vectors improves both overall ASR performance and demographic fairness across gender, age, and dialect, while also enabling few-shot or zero-shot adaptation using acoustically similar speakers.

Sony's ULT party speaker lineup is discounted to its lowest prices yet, with the ULT Tower 7 dropping to $548 ($102 off) and other models like the ULT Field 7 and ULT Tower 9 seeing notable savings.

B&H Photo is selling Sony's WF-1000XM6 noise-canceling earbuds for an all-time low of $238 ($92 off) for one day only, undercutting last year's WF-1000XM5.

蚂蚁集团（inclusionAI/Ant Ling）发布 Ming-3.0 系列语音与音频模型，涵盖 TTS、ASR 及音频模型，已在 Hugging Face 和 ModelScope 上线，参数规模从 0.5B 到 128B 不等。

Final 推出仅重 40 克的 Porta 无线贴耳式耳机，支持蓝牙 5.4、8 小时续航与 IPX4 防水，售价约 80 美元，将于 10 月 23 日开始发货。

Jabra's new Enhance Select M3 hearing aids deliver outstanding quality and better noise control, but the upgrades are only incremental over previous models while remaining very expensive.

coopiano 是一个用 C++17 编写的物理建模钢琴合成器开源项目，通过琴槌、琴弦、音板与共鸣模型合成声音，支持 MIDI 文件渲染与 macOS 实时 MIDI 输入，无需任何采样或第三方库。

Certain Things Studio's Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are full motherboard replacements for classic iPods, adding Bluetooth, Wi-Fi streaming (AirPlay/Google Cast), USB-C, microSD, and FLAC playback without requiring soldering. The boards are headed to a Crowd Supply crowdfunding campaign but will only support 3rd/4th-gen iPods and the iPod mini.

Wired reviews the Nothing Headphone (1) Pro, praising its unconventional triple-driver design (dynamic bass, dynamic precision, and xMEMS treble drivers) for delivering outstanding clarity and mids/treble detail that outshines the Sony WH-1000XM6 and Bose QC Ultra, though bass punch lags slightly behind rivals.