Pocket TTS is an open-source text-to-speech model that runs on CPUs, clones voices from 5 seconds of audio, and keeps voice ...

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine ...

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Roblox is introducing a new way for players to communicate with one another, like having Trusted Connections and verifying ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

Roblox launched a new feature to protect against predators. Here’s what happened when I let the app scan my face to guess my ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The selections here focus more on physical movement than AI smarts, with the ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events. Please send us your ...

Here’s a stat that might shock anyone who isn’t the parent of a Gen Alpha kid: As of October 2025, online gaming platform Roblox boasted more than 151 million global daily active users. For ...

90s and 00s kids likely grew up hearing voice actors Jim Ward, Jeff Garcia, and Julie Mayfield across the cartoons and games of their youth. Reading time 3 minutes It’s been a busy week, and a sad one ...

Ah, the loneliness epidemic. It seems like that’s the one thing on everyone’s minds right now—that and AI. I believe there’s a connection between the two, especially as people become progressively ...