If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...

In the arena of digital accessibility tools, the embedded screen reader—also known as a text-to-speech (TTS) tool—is among the most commonly used features in secondary education. While this feature ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Inside our homes, though, Amazon Alexa has become the most popular virtual assistant in the US and around the world, as a widely adopted virtual ...

Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...

WESTPORT, Mass. (WPRI) — A classroom assistant at Westport Elementary School has been accused of using “excessive physical force” on a student with disabilities, according to the district. In a ...

Trump’s urge to suppress free speech may be about Israel today, but count on one thing: It will be about something else tomorrow. President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General ...

Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice ...

A federal court blocked Texas from using its redrawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections, ordering the map used for the 2022 and 2024 elections to be used next November. The 2-1 ruling of ...

When the Mojo language first appeared, it was promoted as being the best of two worlds, bringing the ease of use and clear syntax of Python, along with the speed and memory safety of Rust. For some ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California Supreme Court upholds law barring nursing home staff from misgendering transgender and gay residents, ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...