This bot plays hot tunes: Super Hi-Fi and WellSaid Labs use AI to create a lifelike DJ As he turns from a Foo Fighters tune to the Smashing Pumpkins, Andy sounds just like your typical alternative-rock DJ… Read More
WellSaid Labs raises $10M to boost its synthetic voice business, fueled by AI WellSaid Labs will have a lot more to say in the years ahead, thanks to $10 million in new investment… Read More
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
Amazon Alexa now does her best ‘newscaster’ impression when reading the headlines Is that you, Walter Cronkite? Amazon unveiled a feature that alters Alexa’s voice to imitate the way broadcast news anchors… Read More
Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post taps Amazon’s Polly AI technology to read news articles Jeff Bezos’ worlds are coming together as The Washington Post announced today that it has begun testing a plan to… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Seattle and Vancouver tech leaders unite, a report from TechCrunch Disrupt, and more This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Can Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., team up to create a “Cascadia Innovation… 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
