Like Siri, there’s a real person behind the text-to-speech voice. If you're one of the 1 billion users who've been on TikTok, you've probably encountered one of the social media platform's ...

Give me Jessie, in fact, over many of the other female voices that contemporary media has produced: One typical female voice of Japanese anime is so disturbing it makes me physically queasy ...

that appears to cross over what many consider the "uncanny valley" of AI-generated speech, with some testers reporting emotional connections to the male or female voice assistant ("Miles" and "Maya").

It’s a shrewd move by Welch: Her voice has already been sampled willy-nilly since she went viral this summer. Now she has the chance to make some money from future samples, in the form of ...

Alexa, Siri, Cortana: Tech voice assistants are undoubtedly ... 2 - Masculine’. However, female is still the number one choice for each, raising questions over who Big Tech is suggesting these ...