A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos. The company blog post drips with the enthusiasm of a ...

In a study conducted by the Post Office Telecoms, participants were asked to rate 50 voices with Rickman’s among them (via BBC News). From there, Sheffield University linguist Andrew Linn and sound ...

Country music is a genre full of artists who wear their influences on their sleeves. It’s one of the only genres where cover songs are as popular and welcomed as original compositions. As a result, ...

A couple of weeks ago, Jason Allen read that Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant, would be getting two new voices. So he tracked down a recording of them on Twitter. “One stopped me in my tracks,” Allen ...