Synthetic voice generation technology has progressed so quickly that many listeners may have difficulty determining whether they heard a sentence spoken by a human being or an artificially created ...

The rise of voice chat in online videogames has inevitably led to a growth in bad behavior between players—it is, after all, a lot easier to scream slurs and abuse at other people than it is to stop ...

Vienna, Austria: People are not very good at distinguishing between human voices and voices generated by artificial intelligence (AI), but our brains do respond differently to human and AI voices, ...

The way human users perceive their interactions with AI systems is, in part, influenced by deliberate choices made by the designers. From depictions of Alan Turing’s early computational machines to ...

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Imagine a world where your favorite audiobook is narrated by a voice so lifelike, you’d swear it belonged to a seasoned actor—or where a virtual assistant greets you with warmth and empathy, adapting ...

Human-machine understanding (HMU) represents the next frontier in human-centric technology. By integrating insights from human behavioural data, cognitive science and psychology with artificial ...