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 ...

In this dreary COVID-19 winter, there are some high points — and high notes — available to people cooped up at home. The documentary “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” which premiered on ...

Voice-controlled AI-powered assistants are pretty smart these days, but they didn't exactly start out that way. They weren't particularly smart about the way they sounded, at least not in the ...

Irish male celebrities are leading the charge when it comes to the world’s sexiest voices, according to a new study. With searches for “audio erotica” surging 67% in just three months, sexy lingerie ...

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 ...