Sound Ledger: Plants, Blindness, Deepfakes

From the August 26, 2026, issue of my This Week in Sound email newsletter: 59: Percent greater yield measured in a plant submitted to specific acoustic signals 340,000,000: Estimated number of people worldwide with “blindness or moderate-to-severe visual impairment,” and who would benefit from better audio tools, such as personalized audio guidance 40: Percent of organizations where employees have “encountered a deepfake combined with social engineering during an audio call” Sources: plants (newscientist.com), blindness (nature.com), deepfake (biometricupdate.com)