Perplexity rolled out an upgraded voice mode for its Comet browser on desktop today, with iOS arriving in days, letting you fully control the browser hands free.

A woman who uses a wheelchair says she’s often unable to pay for her weekly food shop because of supermarket self-checkouts. Toyin Fabusiwa, 26, posted a video of her struggling to scan her groceries ...

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 ...

Google DeepMind has been tinkering with Lyria for a while now, offering limited access in developer-oriented products like ...

Abstract: With increasing demand for smart home automation and reduced manual intervention in routine tasks, the need for efficient and voice-controlled cleaning systems has become vital. This work is ...

For decades, mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts transmitted eerie sequences of numbers, tones, and robotic voices to anyone with a receiver. Known as numbers stations, these signals often began ...

AI-powered text-to-speech (TTS) has evolved far beyond the robotic voices many people associate with early GPS devices or screen readers. Modern AI voices sound fluid, expressive, and surprisingly ...

I trained 1.7b on a 30sec sample. And then put in a few sentences (which is a complete piece), making sure they are short and separated, and got approximately 60 secs of generated audio. The start of ...

The Commodore Amiga was famous for its characteristic Say voice, with its robotic enunciation being somewhat emblematic of the 16-bit era. The Commodore VIC-20 had no such capability out of the box, ...