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Tech companies have been trying to make robots part of a smart home setup for years. Asus introduced Zenbo in 2016, but it never really took off. Amazon’s Astro has been around since 2021, but it’s ...

Some automated phone systems have begun using computer voices with colloquial traits and an improved capacity to interact with callers. But designers can't agree whether computers should be efficient, ...

For most of the past decade, digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant had slightly robotic, white-sounding female voices by default. But recently, they’ve started sounding different.