Amid long lines and frayed nerves typical during the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, roughly 600,000 rail travelers nationwide will squeeze on and off trains, with one-third passing through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. One of the more exciting and promising technologies in the ...

Michele Norris provides an update to a story from last week, the development of a computerized voice for film critic Roger Ebert. She also reads reactions to Tuesday's stories on the troubles of the U ...

Today, many of us at VOA will pick up the telephone and call Darby Bailey, a California actress. We call her a thousand times a month or so, maybe more. And every time, she says pretty much the same ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Apple recently said you’ll be able to make your iPhone speak in your voice, which could help if you lose your ability to speak. The accessibility feature “Personal ...

Admit it. You have probably cussed out a voice-mail, airline, billing, or other automated-speech system, particularly when Ms. This Is Not a Recognized Name or Extension gets that snarky tone. You ...

Voice commands are a feature that, if you're interacting with them, you're probably expecting something to go wrong at some point. It's hard for software to perfectly pick up what you're saying and to ...

Newswise — Researchers have found a way to make AI-generated voices, such as digital personal assistants, more expressive, with a minimum amount of training. The method, which translates text to ...

Findings hold even when cues remind people that the speech isn’t human, with broad implications for users, designers and Web merchants WASHINGTON — People read personality into a synthetic voice even ...

Talking to the computer is no longer just an outlet for a doctor's frustration. Since May 1997, I've been producing most of my patient notes by dictating not into a tape recorder but into a computer.