For most of the past decade, digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant had slightly robotic, white-sounding female voices by default. But recently, they’ve started sounding different.

Some automated phone systems have begun using computer voices with colloquial traits and an improved capacity to interact with callers. But designers can't agree whether computers should be efficient, ...

My income has reduced by 70 per cent in the last two years. I know that AI is a big factor in that,” says Marcus Hutton, an ...