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 ...

It’s a great Valentine’s Day for anyone who watched with envy as Joaquin Phoenix and Ryan Gosling fell in love with machines in Her and Blade Runner 2049. We are now, as of today, one step closer to a ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

If you've spent any time on TikTok lately, you might have heard a haunting little ditty crackling through your feed: a robotic voice crooning "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do..." The sound is ...