The developer of Dragon voice recognition software wants to create home appliances that respond to voice commands -- even when they're off. Associate Editor Nate Ralph is an aspiring wordsmith, ...

Sonos is introducing voice commands for its speakers, finally letting you start your depression playlist by groaning from the couch as God intended. Announced today, Sonos Voice Control will arrive in ...

Here's an introductory guide to using your voice to control your Mac once you upgrade to the latest version of macOS. Apple’s introduction of Voice Control in macOS Catalina is life-transforming for ...

Sonos speakers have always been able to talk to one another over a wireless network, but now you can talk to them directly with your own voice. Focused on better privacy features than Google Assistant ...

You can activate voice controls on your Android device in two ways: through the Google app, and through the Voice Access app. The Google app will let you use voice controls to make Google searches and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. The “Open the pod bay doors, Hal” command from the 1968 sci fi ...

In the mid-1970s, the U.S. Department of Defense and Carnegie Mellon together created the HARPY Speech Recognition System, the first voice recognition proof of concept capable of processing and ...

As many have come to know, iPhones are amazingly powerful little computers. Many iPhone users have adopted them as their primary gadgets, often taking them everywhere. Speaking personally, my iPhone ...

While some of your fondest memories of home may be flicking a light switch off and on exactly 31 times before leaving a room, those days of physical input are quickly being relegated to the history ...

Many cheap cell phones have had the ability to dial contacts by speaking their names for some time—the problem in is just that most of those voice systems don’t work very well. With the debut of the ...

Take your hands-free productivity to the next level with this out-of-the-way system for advanced Android text editing and device control. Sometimes, a few carefully chosen words can go a long way. Now ...