The new iPhone’s voice-activated feature called Siri is designed to answer questions in a part-human, part-robot voice that CNN reporter Brandon Griggs describes as “deep, briskly efficient and ...

Apple's Siri is a woman in America, but a man in the U.K. Oct. 25, 2011 — -- Apple's new Siri, the voice-activated virtual assistant built into its new iPhone 4S, has already been hailed as a ...

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, ...

Space-themed television shows, movies, and video games are set in varying corners of the galaxy and depict wildly dissimilar aliens, but one consistent hallmark through almost all of them is a ...

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 ...

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, ...