Anthropic and Hume test voice control of computers.

MILTON − By the time the 78-year-old Quincy woman connected with digital coach Grace Buscher, her bank account had been cleaned out of her $14,000 life savings. A digital scammer had played ...

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 ...

Voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa are women rather than men. You can change this in the settings, and choose a male speaker, of course, but the fact that the technology industry ...

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 ...

Losing the ability to speak after a brain injury or due to disease leaves a person unable to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas, and can be incredibly isolating. In two recently published ...

While it’s small enough to be an oversized wall wart, the Ubi is far more interesting for what it can do. Plug this tiny computer into an AC outlet, connect it to your Wi-Fi network, and you gain the ...

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, ...