Microsoft has unveiled a new text to speech tool so realistic that it is not safe to be harnessed by the public yet. OleCNX – stock.adobe.com VALL-E 2, as it is called, is the first AI vocal ...

Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence. # ...

It's still pretty easy to tell whether it's a real person who's talking or a text-to-speech program. But there might come a time when a robot could dupe you into thinking that you're speaking with ...