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 ...

It's actually already being used in the Read Aloud feature in the ChatGPT app, which (as the name suggests) reads out answers to you. Once you've trained the voice from a 15-second sample ...

Software-only speech synthesis isn’t new, but it’s better now than it was in Atari’s day. Nowadays, even hobbyist microcontrollers have more than enough processing power and memory to do a ...