Voice cloning technology platforms like ElevenLabs allow anyone to replicate a voice using just a few seconds of audio, for a ...
For a long time, Apple’s Siri voice assistant used a female voice. It was originally the voice of the voice-over artist (and former Roy Orbison backup singer) Susan Bennett. Later, Apple began adding ...
Hermetik releases “When I Sleep,” a track built around a female vocal sample that became difficult to ignore once it surfaced in the writing process. Initially set aside, the sample returned to the ...
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 ...
Voice assistants have historically been female. From Siri and Alexa to Cortana and the Google Assistant, most computerized versions of administrative assistants launched with a female voice and, in ...
From improving the quality of their standard voice to adding regional accents, Google has made great strides in making computers sound more natural. Text-to-speech (first spotted by Android Police) ...