As smartphones have evolved, they've added plenty of accessibility functions designed to help those with various disabilities or impairments to navigate their phone and the world around them. It's ...

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Microsoft’s newest Garage app, the company’s brand for more ...

While it sucks that smarter schools are shutting their campuses and switching to virtual learning, there’s one big, silver lining to this transition: It’s a hell of a lot easier to take notes, ...

If you're looking for a compact, dedicated, AI-powered device for recording interviews and meetings, the Mobvoi TicNote might ...

Group Transcribe is a new Microsoft Garage app that lets you transcribe in-person conversations. The app can also translate conversations. The app is available for free on iOS. The Microsoft Garage ...

Microsoft earlier this week announced its own smart speakers, which feature a couple of tricks that are unavailable on similar devices. The Intelligent Speakers support transcription and can translate ...

Over the past years, the capability of AI to rule over our devices has been established. The insurmountable success of technology in the field of transcription is just around the corner, but its ...

One app is launching a new feature to make podcast content more accessible. Matter introduced “Readable Podcasts” to its platform, allowing users the ability to save and transcribe podcasts alongside ...

Microsoft's new Group Transcribe app is a multilingual tool for taking meeting notes, made exclusively for iPhone by the Microsoft Garage experimental team. Microsoft Garage, the experimental research ...

While Google’s latest smartphone, the Pixel 4, got top billing at a major launch event in New York on Tuesday, the unveiling of an AI-enhanced recording and transcribing app was perhaps the biggest ...

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