Voices have an impact on our preconceptions. My colleague Professor Charles Whitaker at Medill at Northwestern told me that when he was apartment hunting in his early days as a professional, he found ...
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 ...
Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Assistant were all female. The topic has been much discussed and researched in recent years, with data offering as one explanation for the phenomenon that both men and ...
If you're looking for a long-term relationship or to boost your social status, lower your pitch, according to researchers studying the effects of voice pitch on social perceptions. They found that ...
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 ...
The original female Siri voice is no longer the default. Now you can choose from a more diverse range of voices that reflect the intonations of more people, thanks to Apple's tech. Alison DeNisco ...
"We've kind of come out of the quote-unquote 'boyfriend country' phase." By Tom Roland The modern country male voice is made from scratch. The grainy sound of Luke Combs, the wild rasp of Chris ...
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