Sometimes there can be more serious consequences. In 2024, a coroner in Buckinghamshire asked tech companies like Google, Apple and TomTom to make changes to their audio prompts after a driver went ...

Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. When dictating a text message, that sense of unnaturalness for me comes from having to say words like “comma” ...

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 ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

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.

The staff glanced at one another in surprise. I’ve seen this moment before - the re-opening of a door we all assumed had been closed. It happens when an older adult finally feels seen enough to speak.