Whether it's people who can't speak, or musicians looking for a new way of expressing themselves, both may end up benefiting from an experimental new gesture-to-voice synthesizer. The system was ...

Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...

Speech synthesis has been around since roughly the middle of the 20th century. Once upon a time, it took remarkably advanced hardware just to even choke out a few words. But as [atomic14] shows with ...

The human voice is a powerful instrument in itself, but Ukraine-born engineer and musician Vlad Kreimer is looking to transform vocal sounds into intriguing synthesized soundscapes with the help of ...

Hobbyists and Arduino enthusiasts searching for an inexpensive way to add speech to their next Arduino project may be interested in a new piece of hardware which has been created by Kickstarter serial ...

DeepMind has been working on big machine learning problems since it was acquired by Google a few years back. You can experience the fruits of DeepMind's labors right now if you've got an Android phone ...

SAPPORO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hatsune Miku is probably best known as a virtual pop-singer, but actually is a voice synthesizer developed by Crypton Future Media in 2007. Not only the software, but ...

Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation? Mind recorder: A sheet of electrodes picks up electrical activity ...