Amid long lines and frayed nerves typical during the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, roughly 600,000 rail travelers nationwide will squeeze on and off trains, with one-third passing through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. One of the more exciting and promising technologies in the ...

image: In the modern day, our interactions with voice-based devices and services continue to increase. In this light, researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and RIKEN, Japan, have performed a ...

Admit it. You have probably cussed out a voice-mail, airline, billing, or other automated-speech system, particularly when Ms. This Is Not a Recognized Name or Extension gets that snarky tone. You ...

Researchers have performed a meta-synthesis to understand how we perceive and interact with the voice (and the body) of various machines. Their findings have generated insights into human preferences, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Apple recently said you’ll be able to make your iPhone speak in your voice, which could help if you lose your ability to speak. The accessibility feature “Personal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A researcher connects a data port in the speech prosthesis on the head of Ann, who was paralyzed by a stroke in 2005. Using the ...

Findings hold even when cues remind people that the speech isn’t human, with broad implications for users, designers and Web merchants WASHINGTON — People read personality into a synthetic voice even ...