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Things might start to become spooky when speech synthesis gets to human level and we’re unable to differentiate between computer generated…

Recently, in a Simpsons episode, the Google Home was featured as a stand in for hazing pledges. They were relentless in commanding the…

Part of becoming friends is finding areas of shared interests, concerns, and morals. People become friends by learning about one another…

We’ve recently started focusing on instilling to our nearly three year old a sense of humility and kindness — not something that comes…

A few years ago, I saw a demo of music being generated based on the emotion and tone of the content being spoken as TTS. It was incredible…

Does Alexa have a personality? Does Siri?

One of the weird issues that’s going to come up over the next year or two is going to be how voice interactive devices are supposed to…

We have built in mechanisms for coping with people not understanding us. These include actions like speaking louder, more slowly, waving…

CNET published a great how-to on setting name pronunciation for Google Home / Google Assistant. Essentially, you can add a phonetic name to…