Like Siri, there’s a real person behind the text-to-speech voice. If you're one of the 1 billion users who've been on TikTok, you've probably encountered one of the social media platform's numerous ...

For most of the past decade, digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant had slightly robotic, white-sounding female voices by default. But recently, they’ve started sounding different.

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, ...

Last week, I discussed how generative AI and Large Language Models enable a fundamental shift away from the search bar and website link list that dominated how we have conducted internet search for ...

On November 21, Korea University of Technology and Education and Hyundai Motor Company announced that they have developed the nation's first "Physical ...