Text notifications that appear on your iPhone come with the option of alerting you with a sound whenever you receive a text. Assigning different text tones to each contact lets you know who sent you a ...

In a fascinating post from Kelly Jacklin, the long time Apple software engineer details how he helped create the default text alert sound on the iPhone -- now known as the "Tri-tone" alert. The ...

The text tones available to SMS apps in Android are stored in a specific folder on your device -- when you opt to change the notification sound associated with text messages, this is the folder that ...

In iOS 17, Apple overhauled its entire selection of ringtones and text tones, offering more than 20 new sounds that can be used for phone calls, texts, alarms, and more. Here's how to check them out.

It's the familiar sound that emanates from millions of tiny pocket computers countless times a day, a friendly Pavlovian signal that says, "Hey! Someone wants to talk to me." Yep, we're talking about ...

If you've set up Mail and iMessage on your iPad, you may be getting frequent notifications for texts and emails. In addition, notifications might be coming in for Calendar alerts, Reminders, and more.

Positive Grid might just have done for the guitar plugin what its Spark amp did for the desktop amp by unveiling an AI-powered tone platform that allows you to design your electric guitar tone by text ...

Turning off the outgoing message sound on your iPhone can be a simple yet effective way to reduce unnecessary noise, especially if you find the default "woosh" sound annoying. Here’s a step-by-step ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This article is more than 6 years old. Amazon enhanced Polly - the cloud-based text-to-speech service - to deliver natural and ...

Apple’s “tri-tone” that sounds when an iPhone receives a text message has become such a part of the fabric of our lives that it’s hard to remember a time before we heard it almost every day. But in a ...