“Voice is super-complex—it’s very multi-dimensional,” says Naim Zirau, who co-authored a 2021 study on voice assistants, gender, and pitch while working as a researcher at the University ...

Almost 60% of U.S. consumers surveyed by call intelligence firm Invoca use these devices to accomplish tasks they previously would have done on their smartphones. Nearly a quarter (24%) of respondents ...

Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI’s Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her Last week, the company released a chatbot with an option that sounded like the actress, who provided the voice of ...

Siri is Apple's voice-enabled virtual assistant, part of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and other Apple operating systems. It uses AI, voice queries, and natural-language processing to answer questions ...

Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead ...