Jason Mars is an African-American professor of computer science who also runs a tech startup. When his company’s artificially intelligent smartphone app talks, he said, it sounds “like a helpful, ...

Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant all use spliced up human voices to tell you the weather or wake you up in the morning. It’s standard text-to-speech technology, where voice actors record ...

image: In the modern day, our interactions with voice-based devices and services continue to increase. In this light, researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and RIKEN, Japan, have performed a ...

For years, debate has raged online as to whether male or female voices are best for aviation voice warning systems, so pilots can respond quickly and accurately (archived): This post had gained 29,000 ...

It’s hard to put your finger on why, but the voices our computers use to speak just sound wrong. Even with the best voice programming, like Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, computers sound–well–robotic ...

We befriend, hire and fall in love with people who remind us of ourselves. And apparently we decide whether or not to remain on hold with the automated bank teller for the same reason. New research ...

A company in Canada has come up with away to recreate anyone's voice and get it to say almost anything. It opens up dangerous possibilities, however. OK. So we've talked a lot about fake news. Now we ...

Researchers have performed a meta-synthesis to understand how we perceive and interact with the voice (and the body) of various machines. Their findings have generated insights into human preferences, ...