Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik has created a robot head that can answer questions like an ancient Greek philosopher.

Tech companies have been trying to make robots part of a smart home setup for years. Asus introduced Zenbo in 2016, but it never really took off. Amazon’s Astro has been around since 2021, but it’s ...

Some automated phone systems have begun using computer voices with colloquial traits and an improved capacity to interact with callers. But designers can't agree whether computers should be efficient, ...

Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...

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, ...