Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads ...

AI translation has moved past clunky robot voices. From earbuds that translate 43 languages in half a second to Zoom calls that reanimate your lips to speak Japanese, Kim Komando scouts the gear that ...

From talking computers to self-driving cars, here are the trends to watch. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that ...

The Chinese ODM makes robot vacuums for dozens of companies along with its own 3i line. The Chinese ODM makes robot vacuums for dozens of companies along with its own 3i line. I’ve tested a couple of ...

ElevenLabs’ computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother. That’s both a blessing—its 30 Under 30 alumni founders are now both billionaires—and a curse for the four-year-old company.

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On a languid summer afternoon, I drive to Milton Keynes, a midsize city 60 miles northwest of London and a few miles ...

When we use large language models to augment, improve, or accelerate our writing, they erase our human voice in the process. Let’s not be erased. The robots may be taking over, but no one seems to ...

My internet bill crept up by about $15 a month over the summer. I know I can likely lower it by comparing rates to a competitor company, but I've been pushing off that phone call because I'm exhausted ...

There's a bunch of cool AI tools including AI automations, AI voice generator, web hooks and API calls.

The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published the results of a new AI experiment. This time they ...

SALT LAKE CITY — That automatic, robotic message you often get when your call gets sent to someone's voicemail? Yeah, I agree. It's so impersonal, so boring and so lame. Naw — it's perfect for ...