Humans are a needy bunch. We require love, trust, time, patience, attention, guidance and support. In childhood, this typically comes from our parents. In adulthood, when the doting routines of our ...

One of the main benefits of Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, and the other navigation apps on Android and iPhone is that you can get turn-by-turn voice directions, meaning that they can assist you as ...

Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful. By Susan Dominus Artwork by Yehwan Song Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the ...

Here’s a problem that Google Maps users have recently come across that is definitely worth an X Files episode. As the world’s number one navigation app, Google Maps comes with a voice guidance engine ...

On the first day of Google's annual conference for developers, the company showed off a robot with a voice so convincingly human that it was able to call a salon and book a haircut – never revealing ...