A man who relies on text-to-speech software to communicate is preparing for his first Christmas with his very own voice.

Although humanity was hoping for a more optimistic robotic future in the post-war ... not only with a large language model with text-to-speech capabilities, but also with a compelling backstory ...

Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...