Text-to-Speech

Microsoft researchers have presented an impressive new text-to-speech AI model, called Vall-E, which can listen to a voice for just a few seconds, then mimic that voice – including the emotional tone and acoustics – to say whatever you like.

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a brain implant turning neural activity into full words. The first participant in the trial, a paralyzed man, can now speak with a vocabulary of 50 words by simply thinking about vocalizing words.

A new study has indicted that speech-to-text systems can not only pump out text messages much faster than we can, but do so with better accuracy, suggesting perhaps it might not hurt to speak up when arranging our weekend plans.

If you spend hours trawling cooking blogs and scribbling notes, then storing recipes in the one place might seem like the best thing since Saran wrap. Built to endure the most chaotic of cooking environments, the Recipe Tablet taps into an online database to put endless recipes at your fingertips.

Researchers at the Multimedia University in Malaysia have developed an app called the Intelligent Narrator to read out news articles in real-time. Supporting multiple languages, the app can automatically identify an online newspaper's language and read out the news in the same language.

OrCam is a camera-based device linked to a very powerful wearable computer, designed to aid the visually impaired in their daily lives.

Panasonic's 2013 Smart TV line will get speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities courtesy of Nuance Communications' Dragon TV platform.

Hello Robo is launching a new 3D printed robot called MAKI that could be used for human-robot interaction research and other applications.

QNX recently demoed a reference car for its new in-car app platform - a Jeep Wrangler equipped with "CAR 2."

New software developed by Microsoft is able to reproduce the user's speech in another language, using their own voice.

SuperTooth HD Bluetooth clip on speakerphone boasting to be the loudest on the market, can communicate on social networks and has the ability for two way, voice activated handsfree messaging.

New apps for Apple devices help autistic children to communicate with other people.