Amid long lines and frayed nerves typical during the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, roughly 600,000 rail travelers nationwide will squeeze on and off trains, with one-third passing through ...

image: In the modern day, our interactions with voice-based devices and services continue to increase. In this light, researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and RIKEN, Japan, have performed a ...

Findings hold even when cues remind people that the speech isn’t human, with broad implications for users, designers and Web merchants WASHINGTON — People read personality into a synthetic voice even ...

This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference was big. From dark mode in iOS 13 to the newly-rechristened iPadOS to the unveiling of the born-again Mac Pro and more, Apple’s annual week-long bonanza of ...

Voice commands are a feature that, if you're interacting with them, you're probably expecting something to go wrong at some point. It's hard for software to perfectly pick up what you're saying and to ...

Researchers have performed a meta-synthesis to understand how we perceive and interact with the voice (and the body) of various machines. Their findings have generated insights into human preferences, ...