Perplexity rolled out an upgraded voice mode for its Comet browser on desktop today, with iOS arriving in days, letting you fully control the browser hands free.

A woman who uses a wheelchair says she’s often unable to pay for her weekly food shop because of supermarket self-checkouts. Toyin Fabusiwa, 26, posted a video of her struggling to scan her groceries ...

Sometimes there can be more serious consequences. In 2024, a coroner in Buckinghamshire asked tech companies like Google, Apple and TomTom to make changes to their audio prompts after a driver went ...

Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions ...

Google DeepMind has been tinkering with Lyria for a while now, offering limited access in developer-oriented products like ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. When dictating a text message, that sense of unnaturalness for me comes from having to say words like “comma” ...

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads ...

Nick Varley (Lib Dem), who represents Kippington on Sevenoaks district and town councils, was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder in November 2024. Shamima Begum ‘could be freed’ in battle ...

AI translation has moved past clunky robot voices. From earbuds that translate 43 languages in half a second to Zoom calls that reanimate your lips to speak Japanese, Kim Komando scouts the gear that ...

From talking computers to self-driving cars, here are the trends to watch. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Sean McLain reported Sunday on the recent Humanoids Summit in Mountain View, California held earlier this month. McLain seems to have come away with the impression that ...