Text-to-speech (TTS) is a popular feature that lets your computer or phone read text aloud to you. Text-to-speech is commonly used as an accessibility feature to help people who have trouble reading ...

We go back in the NPR archives to find a 30-year-old progress report on the development of computer speech from NPR correspondent Ira Flatow. Things have come along quite a bit since then. Well, ...

Think about how you read. Do you say every word out loud to yourself in your head? That’s a process called internal vocalization or subvocalization, and when you say words to yourself in your head, ...

It took guts for the New York Times to publish an op-ed by Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who coined the phrase “network neutrality,” arguing that the First Amendment doesn’t protect the contents ...

We get it. We also watched Star Trek and thought how cool it would be to talk to our computer. From Kirk setting a self-destruct sequence, to Scotty talking into a mouse, or Picard ordering Earl Grey, ...

Recruiting people whose speech is limited by neurological injury or disease The implants, instead of being stimulative, will "listen" as people try to speak Sophisticated algorithms would turn signals ...