Instagram was clearly trying to court TikTok users when it launched its short-form video format called Reels. Now, it has introduced two features already widely popular on TikTok, perhaps in hopes ...

When we use large language models to augment, improve, or accelerate our writing, they erase our human voice in the process.

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, ...

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.

A Russian robotics company is offering to pay someone $200,000 to use their face and voice for a humanoid robot. The catch? They’ll own the rights to your likeness forever, and you might run into ...

Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik built a talking robot head that channels the mind of Aristotle using a homemade AI system.

Seeking Alpha's roundup of statements, announcements and remarks that could impact the technology sector. The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the potentially negative impact of AI chatbots ...

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 ...