Meta’s ChatGPT competitor includes conversational voice chat and a social feed

Meta’s ChatGPT competitor includes conversational voice chat and a social feed

Meta didn’t wait for Tuesday’s LlamaCon keynote to unveil its first big AI announcement of the week. The company launched a standalone app that competes with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other multimodal AI chatbots. Sticking to the company’s roots, the app also includes a social feed and the ability to draw on info from your … Read more

Recent Windows 11 update lets you disable profanity filter in voice typing

Recent Windows 11 update lets you disable profanity filter in voice typing

Readers help support Windows Report. We may get a commission if you buy through our links. Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help Windows Report sustain the editorial team. Read more If you felt like swearing when voice typing on your Windows 11 laptop, but found the profanity filter censoring the … Read more

New Windows 11 Insider Builds Bring Voice Typing and Click to Do Improvements

New Windows 11 Insider Builds Bring Voice Typing and Click to Do Improvements

The Windows team is firing on all cylinders today with the release of the April optional update for Windows 11 version 24H2, plus three new Insider builds for Dev and Beta Channel testers. The 24H2 preview builds bring a new profanity filter setting for voice typing and a new option to launch Click to Do … Read more

Use Perplexity’s Ai Voice Assistant If You’re Tired of Siri

Use Perplexity’s Ai Voice Assistant If You’re Tired of Siri

Siri is struggling. It’s struggling to respond to simple questions or create simple calendar events. And the end still isn’t in sight, now that Apple has mostly delayed Apple Intelligence’s “smarter Siri” until the end of the year. Meanwhile, Perplexity AI’s new Voice Assistant is here now, trying to capitalize on Apple’s mess. In addition … Read more

Cynthia Erivo Will Lend Her Voice as Elphaba and Everyone Else in New Wicked Audiobook

Cynthia Erivo Will Lend Her Voice as Elphaba and Everyone Else in New Wicked Audiobook

Fans of Wicked will soon be able to enjoy a new audiobook edition of Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West with a very special narrator. RB Media announced today that Oscar-nominated Wicked star Cynthia Erivo will lend her vocal talents to the upcoming audiobook due out July 1, … Read more

Windows 11 will allow users to improve the dictation of the voice access

Windows 11 will allow users to improve the dictation of the voice access

Readers help support Windows Report. We may get a commission if you buy through our links. Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help Windows Report sustain the editorial team. Read more Windows 11 will allow users to add words to vocabulary to improve dictation of the voice access feature. The new … Read more

Pupils and teachers voice fears over ‘staggering’ decision to remove specialist police officers from London schools | UK News

Pupils and teachers voice fears over ‘staggering’ decision to remove specialist police officers from London schools | UK News

London schools are at risk of “increased violence” and “gang exploitation” following the decision to remove specialist police officers, headteachers have told Sky News. Education leaders are “urging” the Metropolitan Police to reconsider a decision to transfer 371 safer schools officers into neighbourhood policing teams next month. Teachers warn pupils will be at “greater risk” … Read more

Biases in Voice Assistants Revealed

Biases in Voice Assistants Revealed

Even voice assistants based on artificial intelligence (AI) are not immune to questions that emotionally affect people. Distorted results can be observed not only in chatbots that were specially designed to work with people who experience mental health conditions. ChatGPT responses also change when prompted by emotions. Voice assistants based on artificial intelligence should provide … Read more

The Duskbloods – ‘Creator’s Voice’ interview with director Hidetaka Miyazaki

The Duskbloods – ‘Creator’s Voice’ interview with director Hidetaka Miyazaki

Get the full interview below. ■ Part 1: Blood by Dusk Can you please give us a quick self-introduction? My name is Hidetaka Miyazaki. I work at FromSoftware (1), and I am the director for The Duskbloods. (1) FromSoftware, Inc.: A game development and publishing company. They have developed games such as Elden Ring and … Read more

Switch 2 Zelda upgrades have achievements, weird GPS voice assistant

Switch 2 Zelda upgrades have achievements, weird GPS voice assistant

The new service inside the Switch app is called Zelda Notes. It only works for the Switch 2 versions, and is “designed to provide a more streamlined gameplay experience,” according to the overview trailer. The app has achievement-like medals you can earn for doing things like traveling long distances, defeating enemies, collecting rupees, and other … Read more