If you love the sound of the talkbox, but grapple with the practicality of the hardware, we have some top tips for recreating ...

While the Cylons in the original 1978 "Battlestar Galactica" definitely looked like actors in chrome suits, they at least sounded like robots. Cylon Centurions spoke with a low-pitched synthesized ...

On Version History: how to play your voice like an instrument, with a little help from Chromeo. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is ...

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

When my dad taught me and my siblings to drive back in the day, it wasn’t in our ’72 Impala family sedan with an automatic transmission but in his barebones ’69 Beetle commuter car with a four-speed ...

For the last couple of years, French e-mobility company Cixi has been working on a three-wheeled vehicle called Vigoz that's based on its chainless pedaling system. A skeletal prototype has been ...

At first glance, it looks ridiculous — 96 million black plastic balls floating on Los Angeles drinking water. But they were not put there for looks or even mainly for evaporation. They were deployed ...

Welcome to Addressed, a weekly column where we, ahem, address the joys (and tribulations!) of getting dressed. So far we’ve unpacked how to wear shorts at the office and beyond, how to pack a carry-on ...

Once upon a time, automobiles came with not two or even three pedals, but four. In a previous article, we discussed the odd little button on the floor of classic cars, but that's not what we're ...

Automakers have put a lot of effort into making the electric vehicle driving experience as similar to a combustion vehicle as possible. Going from combustion to electric these days doesn’t require ...

Acoustic vocoders play a key role in simulating the speech information available to cochlear implant (CI) users. Traditionally, the intelligibility of vocoder CI simulations is assessed through speech ...