Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...

Hobbyists and Arduino enthusiasts searching for an inexpensive way to add speech to their next Arduino project may be interested in a new piece of hardware which has been created by Kickstarter serial ...

Apple may allow developers to add their own voice synthesizers within iOS itself, a rumor claims, opening up the possibility of users being able to install custom voices that could affect how Siri ...

DeepMind has been working on big machine learning problems since it was acquired by Google a few years back. You can experience the fruits of DeepMind's labors right now if you've got an Android phone ...

Voice assistants have historically been female. From Siri and Alexa to Cortana and the Google Assistant, most computerized versions of administrative assistants launched with a female voice and, in ...

Seemingly through a server-side change, Apple is quietly updating some of the international Siri text-to-speech synthesizers. Last month, some readers commented that the British male voice had been ...