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 ...

This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference was big. From dark mode in iOS 13 to the newly-rechristened iPadOS to the unveiling of the born-again Mac Pro and more, Apple’s annual week-long bonanza of ...

Physical keyboards are great, but microphone input has long been a staple for many PC power users. Sometimes, you can just speak faster than you can type. And it’s not just about typing with your ...

While it’s small enough to be an oversized wall wart, the Ubi is far more interesting for what it can do. Plug this tiny computer into an AC outlet, connect it to your Wi-Fi network, and you gain the ...

The generation of voice output by computer. Voice response systems deliver prerecorded information over the telephone with or without interaction by the caller. The voice is typically segments of ...

Voysis, a Dublin-based startup, said it’s shrunk the processing power required to run cutting-edge “Wavenet” voice generation technology so it can work on a mobile phone or other consumer device even ...

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 ...

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, ...

I started in telephony in the 1980s at IBM’s ROLM division and had responsibility for competitive analysis on the PC-based phones being developed there. The market wanted an integrated offering that ...