Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully ...

Many lonely people would rather deal with a robot than interact with an actual human, according to research co-led by ...

Siri and Alexa are good, but no one would mistake them for a human being. Google’s newest project, however, could change that. Called Tacotron 2, the latest attempt to make computers talk like people ...

Technological history may not repeat, but it occasionally rhymes. Last September, ChatGPT, the popular generative A.I. program made by OpenAI, released a voice mode that allowed users to talk to the ...

There is no avoiding robots. With increasing autonomy, satellites span the skies; vacuums vroom underfoot; and bots conduct surgery, deliver packages and explore the solar system. Robot expert Sooyeon ...

DURHAM – A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say. Appearing ...

The ultimate aim of modern computing advancements, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, is to make as much of the human experience as possible programmable. And with the advancements ...

Casey Harrell was losing his ability to speak due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. "Not being able to communicate is so frustrating and demoralizing. It is ...

A new landmark BCI study led by Stanford Medicine neuroscientists demonstrates a brain-computer interface capable of decoding ...