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 ...

Whenever we talk about natural language voice assistants, we invariably draw parallels to the computer on Star Trek. Soon, those comparisons may be a bit more direct: Roddenberry Entertainment has ...

Making a PC generate sounds that resemble human speech is relatively simple. But making a machine sound convincingly human is very tricky. Yet IBM claims to have coded a synthetic voice that is the ...

Sounding robotic has never been a compliment, but with the right amount of tinkering, computer scientists and engineers are hoping that this may soon change. Computerized voices haven’t quite hit the ...

A team at UC Davis has made a major leap in neurotechnology, enabling a man with ALS to speak again through a brain-computer interface that converts thoughts into speech in real time. Unlike prior ...

STEPHEN Hawking was an English-born national treasure – however his computer’s voice did leave some puzzled. The legendary scientist, who wrote A Brief History of Time, eventually had to rely on a ...

Douglas Rain, the veteran Canadian stage actor who provided the soft and gentle voice of the rogue HAL computer for Stanley Kubrick's classic '2001: A Space Odyssey' and its sequel, has died. He was ...

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, ...

STEPHEN Hawking was an English-born national treasure – however his computer’s voice did leave some puzzled. The legendary scientist, who wrote A Brief History of Time, eventually had to rely on a ...