I had no idea how many powerful tools in ChatGPT are effectively hiding in plain sight until I started digging into its ...
The last time we did comparative tests of AI models from OpenAI and Google at Ars was in late 2023, when Google’s offering ...
For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control ...
Not crazy about talking to Siri, Alexa or Gemini? You can easily create a voice assistant-free smart home with these tricks.
A TikTok video shows a woman calmly playing with a large snake in a river while a voiceover claims the reptile is used for ...
Pocket TTS is an open-source text-to-speech model that runs on CPUs, clones voices from 5 seconds of audio, and keeps voice ...
You must have the Ollama application installed and running. This project comes with pre-packaged wake-word (hey_jarvis) and TTS models in the models/ directory. No ...
What if you could transform a Raspberry Pi into a multilingual voice assistant capable of delivering weather updates, recommending restaurants, and seamlessly switching languages? In this overview, ...
Amazon has launched Alexa+ on the web at Alexa.com, giving its assistant a ChatGPT-style interface as it expands into shopping, Ring, and Prime Video.
Amazon has brought its voice assistant to the web in a move intended to bypass the need for physical smart speakers, giving advertisers another option to work with Alexa+. This shift allows ...
Geezer Butler recently hailed the advantages of artificial intelligence, saying it helped him develop songs for his upcoming solo album. The bassist said his former bandmate and Sabbath guitarist Tony ...
New York’s new mayor challenged his supporters and his opponents to make the city better, and to hold him to account. By The New York Times The following is a transcript of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ...