Voice
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Business
George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast
The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades…
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News
OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand…
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Arts
When the Voice You Hear Is Not the Actor You See
The playwright Lucas Hnath has been making magic with the sound of speech. Now he’s directing a play by Mona…
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Books
What Was The Village Voice?
“The Freaks Came Out to Write” is an oral history of America’s most important alternative weekly.
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News
No, That’s Not Taylor Swift Peddling Le Creuset Cookware
The singer did not promote a giveaway of the popular cookware, but an artificially generated version of her voice suggested…
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News
Hola! This Is Mayor Eric Adams, Making an A.I. Robocall
New York City is embracing artificial intelligence and using it to send robocalls featuring the mayor’s voice in many languages.
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Science
If You’ve Ever Heard a Voice That Wasn’t There, This Could Be Why
With a ghostly finger in a lab, researchers coaxed people to hear phantom voices.
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News
Terence Davies, 77, Dies; Filmmaker Mined Literature and His Own Life
With a poetic sensibility, “Distant Voices, Still Lives” echoed his Liverpool upbringing, and “The House of Mirth” put Edith Wharton’s…
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Arts
Renata Scotto Spun an Actor’s Insight Into Vocal Gold
The Italian soprano’s dramatic acumen and hard-to-characterize voice brought a range of classic opera heroines vividly and emotionally to life.
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World
A French Music Maker Lost His Voice. A Comedian Helped Get It Back.
The rap producer known as Pone, who has A.L.S., speaks through a computer that makes him sound robotic. He asked…
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