A female voice (roughly age 30–60) that sounds warm, calm, and natural. This is not a traditional voice acting role. The goal is to create a voice clone for an AI companion that helps older adults ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “For me, it’s easier to send a voice note than to text,” Melissa tells me, via voice note, of course. “Text is more direct, more ...

Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

Is your smartphone "sexist"? The rise of voice assistant technology—and longstanding gender disparities within the tech industry—means assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are under a microscope ...

We all have that one friend: You text her a question, and her response comes in the form of a two-minute voice note. Then, maybe you respond to her voice note with another text, and she leaves you ...