Jason Mars is an African-American professor of computer science who also runs a tech startup. When his company’s artificially intelligent smartphone app talks, he said, it sounds “like a helpful, ...

Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant all use spliced up human voices to tell you the weather or wake you up in the morning. It’s standard text-to-speech technology, where voice actors record ...

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 ...

Computer voices sound perfect in sci-fi films, but in the real world computer voices such as those used for Siri, Cortana and Google Now don't... Hey Siri, What Did You Say? Why Computers Still ...

It’s hard to put your finger on why, but the voices our computers use to speak just sound wrong. Even with the best voice programming, like Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, computers sound–well–robotic ...

We befriend, hire and fall in love with people who remind us of ourselves. And apparently we decide whether or not to remain on hold with the automated bank teller for the same reason. New research ...

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 ...

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, ...