Tag: VOICE

Google launched its Voice program more than a year ago, but the company then granted access only to an enviable group of lucky invitees. The search engine subsequently and systematically unveiled new Voice features, and invited more participants, but still forced the general public to plead and grovel for inclusion. Those neglected, ignored and forlorn masses need wait no longer, though (as long ...

Share Leave it to Oprah to bring a tear to our eye. On her show yesterday, film critic Roger Ebert, who recently lost his voice to thyroid and jaw cancer, sampled his brand new and remarkably realistic voice synthesizer. With his wife by his side, Ebert speaks for the first time with his new voice module, and admits, "It still needs improvement, but at least it sounds like me." As you can see in ...

With all the buzz surrounding the debut of Google's new Nexus One phone, it seems there was one feature that mostly went unnoticed. This mobile device might not be ideal for sailors -- or for people who talk like them. According to Reuters, the phone's voice-to-text feature censors certain four-letter words by inserting '#' signs in lieu of the offending letters. It's true, no bull####. Still, ...

We love reading and reporting about the latest technology unleashed on the world. Our favorite is the kind that truly changes the lives of people. But in a world that barely has the attention span to read a 140-character tweet, a lot of noble technology gets overlooked. That's why we want everybody to pause and recognize the importance of a recent medical breakthrough. According to Technology ...

You've spent hours writing quality comedic YouTube material and perfecting your delivery, but when you finally watch your masterpiece, your voice doesn't sound deep and smooth like you'd expected. Instead, you sound like a whiny, pubescent goob. What's the deal? PopSci.com recently asked Vanderbilt University audiology professor why a person's recorded voice sounds different than what they hear ...

In a world of cliche movie trailers, one man created more cliches than any other. That man was Don LaFontaine, whose gravely voice accompanied seemingly every trailer in theaters (and more than a few self-parodying commercials). Sadly, he passed away earlier this week with complications from a collapsed lung., after having contributed over 5,000 movie trailers and something like 750,000 ...