For the last five years, a stream of hopeful kids and grown men alike have filed on stage to compete in the natural-voice Owl Hoot Contest in Northwest Arkansas. In competition, these turkey hunters ...

Ben Diskin, the lead voice actor in Mega Man 11, has said he will not reprise his role for Mega Man: Dual Override, as the game's publisher Capcom would only permit him to return "without the ...

Many people buy a sleek smart speaker and end up using it for just three things: checking the weather, playing music, and setting kitchen timers. That mismatch is absurd because this device was never ...

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

PEAK is a desktop-style voice assistant with a web UI, built with Python and JavaScript. It uses speech recognition, text-to-speech, and an AI chatbot backend to handle natural-language commands, open ...

At some companies, the whispering begins with a single employee, and then spreads from there. Gooseneck microphones start appearing on desks as a growing number of workers forgo keyboards to murmur ...

Amazon is making its AI-upgraded Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S. Alexa+ launched last year in an "early access" preview, meaning consumers had to join a waitlist or buy a new device ...

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Apple has acquired Q.ai in a deal estimated around $2 billion. Though there’s still a lot we don’t know, some of the details surrounding Q.ai’s work have me very excited for the future of Apple’s AI ...

An assistant principal in Georgia is facing serious charges after being caught in a shocking shoplifting scheme that played out over several weeks at Walmart — and it wasn’t a petty crime. Courtney ...