TAIPEI, Taiwan — Winbond Electronics Corp. claims to have developed a low-power system-on-chip that translates text into audible speech that sounds more natural than the robotic voice common to most ...

Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Texas Instruments Inc. will exit the dedicated speech-synthesis chip market at the end of this year when it transfers production of its MSP50C6XX family of speech synthesis ICs ...

We all love the Arduino, but does the Arduino love us back? There used to be a time when the Arduino couldn’t express it’s deepest emotions, but now that [Nick] hooked up a speech synthesis chip from ...

Low-cost high-quality speech recognition and synthesis has been the holy grail of the electronics industry for several decades. It's here now in the RSC-4x family of speech-recognition and synthesis ...

Seiko Epson has released a new synthesis chip for embedded applications using Fonix text-to-speech function. According to a press release the S1V30120 converts text-based characters into a synthetic ...

Speech recognition, speech synthesis and system control are provided on the RSC-464 IC. The device can replace existing 8-bit microcontrollers with a voice-enabled solution. The device is a powerful ...

Paradromics Inc., a brain implant company and rival to Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp., has gained US approval to begin its first ...

How Intel upgraded the physicist's decades-old communications system. Professor Stephen Hawking during a press conference in London, Dec. 2, 2014. Professor Hawking and Intel discussed the latest ...