I have on-board realtek audio. Does it process audio coming from a USB headset with it's own USB amplifier on the cord plugged in via USB or does realtek only process hardware plugged into the 3.5 ...

Why the arrival of GPU-based audio is an inflection point that David Shapton reckons could be as pivotal as when MIDI rewrote the rulebook in the early 1980s. Audio on a GPU? Wait, what? GPUs are for ...

In iOS 18, Apple's Notes and Voice Memos apps get a new audio transcription feature. Here's everything you need to know about the different types of audio transcription, how they compare, and what ...

We've confirmed at WWDC that tvOS 26 is getting passthrough audio, which could allow a higher quality listening experience by disabling audio preprocessing on the Apple TV hardware, before hand-off to ...

Iconic movie sound effects, your favorite songs, and ambient background noises are created through the art of audio mixing. From lo-fi to hi-fi and everything in between, here’s the lowdown on the ...

Abstraction is the core of nearly all progress in computing. Unless you are fabricating your own semiconductors and drawing wire, we all create with building blocks ranging from components like CPUs, ...

Qualcomm announced two new sound platforms for wireless mid-tier and premium earbuds, headphones, and speakers that allow manufacturers to include audiophile-level sound quality, enhanced ANC, ...

The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

It’s about to get significantly easier to install Rogue Amoeba apps like Audio Hijack on your Mac. As spotted by Jason Snell at Six Colors, Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis dropped this news in a blog ...

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