The boundary between human and artificial voices is becoming increasingly blurred. While we thought we could easily ...

Not only is AI influencing our written communication, but it is also altering our verbal interactions. The Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin has conducted research on the impact of ...

Most leading artificial intelligence voice cloning programs have no meaningful barriers to stop people from nonconsensually impersonating others, a Consumer Reports investigation found. Voice cloning ...

Voice assistants are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives, and hype from frontier labs like OpenAI has sparked debate about whether talking chatbots might actually be a substitute for real human ...

When the GenAI hype was just picking up steam, I wrote about the danger of drowning in LLM-produced blah if we failed to utilize the expertise of human linguists. It gives me no pleasure to say I was ...

Every story, song, or word helps their brain connect language and emotion in ways that last well beyond infancy.

A new AI-powered voice assistant from Sesame AI is pushing the boundaries of human-like interaction, using advanced speech technology to create more natural and emotionally aware conversations. Unlike ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. After years of dealing with voice ...