This weird looking chap is the Waseda Talker-7 robot, and it makes those strange vowel sounds not through a loudspeaker, but a biomechanical simulation of the way we humans speak. To that end, it’s ...
Researchers at Columbia University published a study (via Science) in January 2026 that details their methods for getting a humanoid robot to look and sound a lot more like a person. They got it to ...
Re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor Leff Lefferts tells IndieWire about how Roz (Lupita Nyong'o) needed to sound and feel. What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot ...