Loneliness has a critical impact on the mental health of citizens, particularly among the elderly. Robots capable of ...

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The Commodore Amiga was famous for its characteristic Say voice, with its robotic enunciation being somewhat emblematic of ...

Pocket TTS delivers high-quality text-to-speech on standard CPUs. No GPU, no cloud APIs. It is the first local TTS with voice ...

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads ...

Nick Varley (Lib Dem), who represents Kippington on Sevenoaks district and town councils, was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder in November 2024. Shamima Begum ‘could be freed’ in battle ...

AI translation has moved past clunky robot voices. From earbuds that translate 43 languages in half a second to Zoom calls that reanimate your lips to speak Japanese, Kim Komando scouts the gear that ...

From talking computers to self-driving cars, here are the trends to watch. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that ...

Researchers are making headway in the "terrifying robot apocalypse" department. Yicaiglobal reported (via Interesting Engineering) that specialists from the Chinese cybersecurity research group ...

Don Adkins was walking along the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles late one night this month when he heard a plea for help. “Please close the right-side rear door, thanks,” Adkins recalled a synthetic voice ...

ElevenLabs’ computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother. That’s both a blessing—its 30 Under 30 alumni founders are now both billionaires—and a curse for the four-year-old company.