Alexa can now connect to Big Mouth Billy Bass, along with twerking Christmas toys
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass? That strange wall-mounted fish from the '90s that sings "Take Me to the River?"
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass? That strange wall-mounted fish from the '90s that sings "Take Me to the River?"
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 30, 2018
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When investigators arrive at an aviation crash site, one of their first priorities is to locate the plane's black boxes, two pieces of equipment that can hold vital clues on what caused an aircraft to go down.
Other
Oct 31, 2018
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U.S. auto companies such as General Motors, Tesla and Ford faltered this year in Consumer Reports' reliability rankings as readers reported more mechanical trouble with their vehicles.
Automotive
Oct 24, 2018
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Although bonobos and chimpanzees are similar in size, bonobo calls sound an octave higher than chimpanzee calls. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, explain this discrepancy ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2018
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A KAIST research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Material Science and Engineering has developed a machine learning-based acoustic sensor for speaker recognition.
Nanomaterials
Oct 5, 2018
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A team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum has succeeded in integrating secret commands for the Kaldi speech recognition system – which is believed to be contained in Amazon's Alexa and many other systems – into audio files. ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 24, 2018
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New research out of the University of Waterloo has found a way to improve the voice query understanding capabilities of home entertainment platforms.
Computer Sciences
Sep 5, 2018
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Some two years after stepping into the spotlight, voice assistants are learning new languages and connecting to ever-more devices around the home—but mass adoption and widespread ease with the new technology remain some ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 31, 2018
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Europe's biggest tech fair, Berlin's IFA, opens its doors Friday with a flood of new product launches. Here are some of the top trends making waves along the aisles:
Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 30, 2018
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Over five years in the late 1970s, the Yorkshire Ripper was murdering women and the hunt for one of the UK's worst serial killers was on. During this time, the police were sent three letters and an audio communication, purportedly ...
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2018
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