Twangy voices are easier to understand than neutral ones in traffic noise, especially for female speakers. New research ...

“Their hardwired subservience influences how people speak to female voices and models how women respond to requests and express themselves.” The UN agency reports that “with rare exception ...

For instance: ‘I want a 30 year old female who lives in California and is into software,’ or ‘Give me an Australian man’s voice.’ “Every time you do that, you’re going to get a ...

Early attempts at synthesizing female-sounding voices consisted of scaling the formants—the peak frequencies that define vowel sounds—of the “male” voice, but this did not succeed in ...

It took Amazon several years to overcome technical hurdles as it remade its voice assistant with new artificial intelligence technology.

Sesame trained three AI model sizes, with the largest using 8.3 billion parameters (an 8 billion backbone model plus a 300 million parameter decoder) on approximately 1 million hours of primarily ...

Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

The demo showcases two AI voices named "Miles" (male) and "Maya" (female), and its realism has captivated some users. However, good luck trying the tech yourself.

OpenAI is broadening access to Advanced Voice Mode, a feature of ChatGPT that allows you to speak more naturally with the AI model. It allows you to interrupt its responses midsentence, and it can ...

On Thursday, AI voice platform ElevenLabs introduced v3, described on the company's website as "the most expressive text-to-speech model ever." ...

OpenAI ‘s voice AI models have gotten it into trouble before with actor Scarlett Johansson, but that isn’t stopping the company from continuing to advance its offerings in this category. Today ...

ChatGPT was able to speak in a natural, human-sounding voice, as well as a robot voice — and even sang part of one response. The tool was also able to look at an image of a chart and discuss it.