speech synthesis

The gentle whir of my robotaxi greets me at dawn, the AI’s synthesized voice echoing a routine intimacy that still feels a touch futuristic. It’s a sign of how deeply artificial intelligence has permeated daily life—not as a far-off vision or a Silicon Valley indulgence, but as a practical...

Fujitsu has once again positioned itself at the forefront of digital transformation with its latest unveiling: the AI-powered "Fujitsu AI Auto Presentation." This technology, announced on June 19 by Fujitsu Limited, is not just another incremental improvement within workplace productivity tools...

Fujitsu’s latest announcement marks a significant milestone in the convergence of artificial intelligence and modern productivity, unveiling a suite of AI-powered presentation tools that promise to transform the way organizations communicate, share knowledge, and drive digital innovation...

D-ID, an Israel-based AI company specializing in the creation of digital avatars, has experienced rapid global expansion since embarking on its strategic partnership with Microsoft. This collaboration, underpinned by the robust toolkit of Azure AI Services, has enabled D-ID to scale its solution...

While using found a funny thing that can be done on Chrome with 9 accents. I found this while using Chatgpt when translating paragraphs. It works with the below Chrome extension. It seems to work with 9 languages. It reads each one with original accent. So if it has the 1st line in a one of...

The evolution of AI-powered voice assistants has accelerated rapidly over the past few years, with tech companies continuously vying to offer the most natural, flexible, and helpful experiences. Anthropic, best known for its Claude AI, is now preparing to enter the voice assistant arena in a...

Meta is once again facing a firestorm of controversy as reports from the Wall Street Journal reveal troubling interactions between its AI assistant and users registered as minors. This latest incident reignites an ongoing debate about the adequacy and ethics of AI safety measures, particularly...

It sounds like science fiction: you type in nearly anything—a dense academic article, a vacation idea, the most recent mind-melting tech conference recap—and, within seconds, you’re greeted not with an essay, but with an upbeat, back-and-forth podcast, staged by two impossibly game virtual...

There’s a new face quietly sprouting up in the woodland of Microsoft Copilot’s animated assistants. If you blinked, you probably missed it—but, as seasoned community sleuths have detected, the staid world of intelligent digital helpers is once again abuzz with incremental but fascinating change...

It’s a time-honored ritual: you click play on your favorite digital assistant, and out comes the brisk, sometimes eerie, yet strikingly articulate voice—one that’s come a long way from the robotic monotones of the 1980s. But just how well do we truly understand these synthesized voices...

It starts with a spark — or perhaps, in this case, a sonic boom. Imagine asking your virtual assistant to book a dinner reservation, troubleshoot your Wi-Fi, or walk your grandmother through installing a security update… and instead of the stilted, uncanny valley exchanges we’ve come to expect...

Hi, If you use any text to speech software's that are free, I would love to hear about them, thanks in advance.

Hi. I need software for voice changer used for wave file (not online) similar to convert text to speech which exist (built) in windows 10. windows one is very basic with only one option. Please help. Thanks and best regards.

The way users interact with apps on different devices has gotten much more personal lately, thanks to a variety of new Natural User Interface features in the Universal Windows Platform. These UWP patterns and APIs are available for developers to easily bring in capabilities for their apps that...

FamilyNotes is a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that implements a group noticeboard. The goal of this app was to showcase the various Windows 10 input and interaction features that enable a personal and individualized computing experience. This is the third of three blog posts...

Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the Speech Synthesis APIs defined in the W3C Web Speech API Specification. These APIs allow websites to convert text to audible speech with customizable voice and language settings. With them, website developers can add...

In the previous article, we introduced the idea of recognizing speech inside of a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app and took a look at the SpeechRecognizer class and some of what it can do to enable speech recognition in our apps. In this article, we’re going to dig further into...

As developers, we adapt as technologies move from the realm of Science Fiction into readily available SDKs. That’s certainly, or perhaps especially, true for speech technologies. In the past 5 years, devices have become more personal and demanding of new forms of interaction. In Windows 10...

In this episode, Robert is joined by Link Removed, who shows us how to integrate Cortana into apps. Among the topics Nick covers and shows are voice commands, speech recognition and synthesis, background voice commands and continuous dictation. Resources: Link Removed Nick's Demos Link...

As soon as I read Mansib Rahman's post yesterday (as I write this) I knew I found the perfect project to highlight. I mean, come on it's Professor Stephen Hawking, Intel, .NET, WinForms (got to show some WinForm love now and then), open source and it's just cool! Link Removed I’m typing this...