Episode 351 A Loving Critique or Roast of My ...

We take a look at the all new Alexa Plus web portal! We also have a brief segment at the end of the show, about how to use it and first-impressions with a screen reader. 

This is a replay of a archive episode, episode 329, dealing with the My Talking Books Skill, a product of the NLS, a division of the Library of Congress. 

Would you want my voice to be the voice of your Alexa? An interesting raise that can change people’s vocal accents in real time. Instagram rolls out a comprehensive system to check ages on their platform. And is that new Brave search engine becoming a contender? Sponsors: HubSpo ...  Show more

This week, OpenAI released its much-anticipated flagship model, GPT-5. We break down what we know about the upgrade, drawing from our initial testing and a special news briefing with Sam Altman. Then, we explain why we were underwhelmed by Amazon’s new Alexa+, which is powered ...

Episode 49: How close are we to living in a world where AI voices sound indistinguishable from humans? Matt Wolfe ( https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands ( https://x.com/NathanLands) delve into this cutting-edge technology. In this episode, the hosts explore groundbreaking AI voi ...  Show more

What would happen if you created a digital copy of yourself, powered by AI, and set it loose in the world? Evan Ratliff, longtime tech journalist, decided to find out. He combined a clone of his voice, an AI chatbot, and a phone line—many phone lines, actually—into what are calle ...  Show more