It's not just what is said but how it's articulated that shapes the meaning of human communication, and people use intonation to highlight the most important part of a sentence. Take, for instance, ...

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

Researchers created and used complex neural networks to recreate speech from brain recordings, and then used that recreation to analyze the processes that drive human speech. Speech production is a ...

There are several AI tools available that can generate humanlike speech. Some AI voices can whisper, laugh, and perform other expressive feats. TTS tools vary in terms of level of realism and their ...

Text-to-speech AI models are a great tool for instances where human voice actors are typically used, such as audiobooks, dubbing, commercials, and more. However, because these models are not human and ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Just a few years ago, it was pretty easy to tell if you were communicating with a human or a bot. But now, voices and text powered by ...

In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to ...

Budgerigars are the only animals known so far to have language-producing centers of neurons akin to those in humans, according to new research. H. Zell via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Parrots ...

A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing that chimpanzees can gesture to one ...