A DIY Covox Speech Thing clone designed for practice in PCB design and soldering. The project features adjustable low-pass filtering via switches, parallel port connectivity, and two board variants with flexible component values for audio output customization.
Lacquer is an iOS app that detects fake lossless audio files by analyzing the actual audio content rather than file metadata, using FFT analysis to identify upscaled or re-encoded files. It offers on-device processing with no uploads or accounts required, displaying spectral evidence for its verdicts, and functions as a full lossless audio player supporting FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and m4a formats.
A developer integrated NAM A2-Lite, a compact neural amp model, directly into an iRig HD X audio interface by repurposing its NXP Cortex-M7 microcontroller. The guitar signal now runs through amp modeling on the device itself at 48 kHz, eliminating the need for external computers while maintaining real-time performance within tight memory and processing constraints.
Musslop is a tool that analyzes MP3 tracks to identify musical structure and creates seamless adaptive loops, allowing users to switch between sections in real-time like game audio engines. Designed for tabletop RPG ambience, it also supports game dev prototyping, streaming, and focus music, with offline AI analysis and export capabilities.
APC 1.5 is an AI-powered open-source framework for building audio VST/AU plugins with LLM assistance. The update introduces the APC Hub browser dashboard for project management, expands compatibility with multiple AI coding tools (Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Claude Code), and adds a unified command-line tool with post-release patch and evolution workflows.
Fish Audio is a free text-to-speech tool offering 300+ neural voices that converts up to 5,000 characters to MP3 without requiring sign-up, featuring instant preview and download capabilities for video editing.
A developer is building an open-source web-based 4-channel music tracker for composing tracks, with plans to expand it into a complete music-making toolkit that others can use and learn from.
What Just Pinged Me? is a macOS menu bar app that identifies and records notification sounds after they occur, showing the exact source including app name, tab title, or script. It stores audio locally with no network connection, analytics, or account required, available free on the App Store or as a direct download.
Surraura is a macOS app that processes audio through convolution filters simulating physical spaces (rooms, forests) and adds ambient sounds to help users with ADHD focus. The creator built it after discovering that spatial audio context improved their own concentration compared to dry audio playback.
The 101 Plays Itself is an interactive audio installation that converts live traffic from a California freeway into music by analyzing a Caltrans traffic camera feed, detecting vehicles in real time, and synthesizing notes based on their speed and type.
Schwung is an unofficial framework that adds a parallel UI to the Ableton Move, enabling community-built synths, effects, and tools without modifying the device's stock firmware. It includes features like granular synthesis, new sampling sources, audio effects, workflow enhancements, and a web-based manager for configuration.
The Haiku project released its August 2026 report highlighting recent development work including live audio output switching in the Media Kit, continued Bluetooth support improvements, and enhanced USB audio device compatibility. The update also covers progress on CPU architecture support, power management, and kernel fixes across multiple platforms.
Apple Watch can record conversation snippets without consent from all parties involved, raising privacy concerns about the device's audio capture capabilities.
A browser-based tool enables real-time audio dubbing for meetings and any Chrome tab, allowing participants to hear content in their chosen language with a voice mimicking the original speaker. Supports Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other tabs at $0.04 per minute per language.
A developer ported a VB6 shooting game to Flutter as the iOS app Kirian, featuring 14 art themes. This release focuses on critical audio fixes for iOS 17–18.3 compatibility, memory optimization, and resolving numerous bugs affecting gameplay and sound management.
A presenter recommends including audio and video test slides at the start of presentations to catch technical issues early. Drawing from personal experience with failed demo videos, the author outlines common AV problems at events and suggests mitigations like subtitles and sign-language interpreters.