How Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is changing its tone during the pandemic Alexa, do I need a coronavirus test? That’s a query that almost certainly was not in the repertoire for Amazon’s… Read More
Smooth talker: Microsoft speech technology claims superior conversational abilities Microsoft’s digital assistants and chatbots are getting a lot chattier. Microsoft today unveiled the ability for bots to have “session-oriented”… Read More
That’s one smooth-talking robot: Google’s WaveNet AI program produces human-like speech Text-to-speech technology isn’t great. I’ve always found the robotic drone of computerized voices a bit grating — a sentiment that… Read More
Bill Gates: Why young entrepreneurs are Africa’s greatest hope Bill Gates believes countries throughout Africa can obtain economic prosperity and fairly distributed wealth — but only by mobilizing the… Read More
