Amazon’s Alexa takes advantage of a specially made Speech Synthesis Markup Language to help developers make their Alexa skills sound more natural, and today, that language is getting five additional ...

These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are behind next-generation improvements in a range of ...

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We’ve paid a lot of attention over the years to speech recognition — getting the computer to hear and understand what we say to it — but much less to how the computer talks back to us via ...

Amazon is trying to make its Alexa voice assistant sound more humanlike. Up until now, the female-sounding voice maintained an even, monotone cadence whenever speaking, but with Amazon’s new Speech ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Apple is a member of W3C, an organization that develops common protocols ...