The stilted and robotic-sounding speech synthesizers are mostly of this latter type, since they rely upon the computer to generate the audio signal rather than recordings of real human voices.

Though some people find the robotic nature of computer-generated voices annoying, the tool is useful for videos that are best with narration, but whose creators don't want to use their own voice.

She did. What's so frightening about this newest "taking" tech scam is that the robotic voices threatens to release personal information stored on your computer unless you call them immediately.

In a great bit of news for anyone who wants to kiss a computer, there's now an AI voice that can flirt ...

They're the robot voices that guide us through our days and nights — and more often than not, they're replacing Mom, not Dad. So why, exactly, are all these automated voices women, not men?

But they are older and commonly less interactive and user-friendly. Communication with such an automaton takes place by voice, but rather than a conversation, it is a voice-controlled passage through ...

When Amazon's new Kindle debuted a month ago, Jeff Bezos proudly showed off a killer new feature—a robotic voice that can read back any passage from any book, like an automatic audiobook. The ...

[Ben Yeh] wrote in to tell us about this voice-controlled chess robot he built along with three others as a final project for their Georgia Tech ECE 4180 Embedded Systems Design class. To handle th… ...

The robot is reported to have wheels and can be controlled by Alexa voice commands and is expected to release by next year.

Focuses on a study which examined the responses of people to personality cues in computer-generated voices. How people categorize computer-generated voices; Role of the similarity-attraction ...