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“The message is ‘We can take your children,’” Andrew Rankin, an immigration attorney in Memphis, told me. “The message is ‘We ...
Even before he trained as an otolaryngologist, researcher Anthony Law understood that all of us are natural voice scientists with the intuitive power to hear people's voices and know something's ...
Sometimes emotions are the voice of one’s conscience, and shouldn’t be ignored.
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system ...
OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode, reminiscent of the movie Her, sounds almost too human.
The human voice represents one of our most distinctive characteristics—as unique as fingerprints yet constantly evolving throughout life. While most people recognize the obvious vocal changes ...
President Donald Trump’s assault on transgender rights is a gross overreach of presidential power and yet another attempt to punish trans people just for existing.
Audrey Thompson '25 (medical illustration) and four other students in the program worked with some of the creative minds behind Reading Rainbow to create illustrations to visually support the ...
“The Other Side of Silence,” a new work in development, is experimenting with giving operatic voice to a text-to-speech synthesizer.
Hume just launched EVI 2, an impressive speech-to-speech AI voice assistant with similar realism and conversational skills as OpenAI’s GPT-4o Advanced Voice.
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.