Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those ...

Bruce Schneier and coauthor Barath Raghavan argue that all talking AIs and robots should use ring modulators to make themselves distinguishable from human speech. "We think the bulk of the uses will ...

Sound designers can create all the sounds we hear from scratch in a live-action context, of course - everything from Foley to ADR can replace the production sound captured on the day.

The onset of motor neurone disease (MND) left Sarah without a voice and the use of her hands at the age of 34. It was within ...

Sarah Ezekiel was left without a voice or use of her hands aged just 34 due to the onset of motor neuron disease in 2000. Her ...