Dear fellow humans with naturally soft voices, I would like to start off with a story. I was standing on my metal chair. My fingers dug into the paper grocery bag that covered my health textbook. I ...

Voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa are women rather than men. You can change this in the settings, and choose a male speaker, of course, but the fact that the technology industry ...

Voice assistants and chatbots rely on understanding language, but for now, they can learn meaning and context only with human help. So much for privacy. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than ...

Some actors have it, and we love it: a speaking voice so naturally musical or mysteriously pleasing, that millions the world over respond with variations on the same reaction. I’d listen to this actor ...