#user-speech
#user-speech

8 hours ago

It's not just one thing - it's another thing | TechCrunch

The phrase 'It's not just this - it's that' has dramatically increased in corporate communications, indicating a trend in AI-generated writing.

Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere

Making chatbots appear nicer enhances human interaction more than increasing their intelligence.

fromNieman Lab

Artificial intelligence

People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and "good enough," new study finds

Psychology

fromTheregister

11 hours ago

Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere

Making chatbots appear nicer enhances human interaction more than increasing their intelligence.

fromNieman Lab

Artificial intelligence

People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and "good enough," new study finds

Artificial intelligence

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network

Mental health

ChatGPT Goes to Therapy: The New Emotional Economy

fromwww.theguardian.com

Humor

ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage

fromwww.nytimes.com

Relationships

Video: Opinion | Can a Bot Love You Back?

fromThe Atlantic

Imagine a Chatbot That Actually Knew How to Talk to You

AI companies are focusing on developing emotionally intelligent tools to enhance user interaction and empathy.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

The Claude-lash is here: Opus 4.7 is burning through tokens and some people's patience

Opus 4.7 faces criticism for mistakes, high token usage, and perceived regression compared to previous models.

fromNature

1 day ago

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network

Agent4Science is a social network for AI agents to discuss research papers without human participation.

Mental health

ChatGPT Goes to Therapy: The New Emotional Economy

AI is reshaping emotional expression and communication, but it risks creating a 'false self' and replacing genuine human connections.

Humor

fromwww.theguardian.com

ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage

The phrase 'It's not X, it's Y' has become a common rhetorical device, often associated with AI-generated content.

Relationships

fromwww.nytimes.com

Video: Opinion | Can a Bot Love You Back?

Exploring the emotional dynamics between humans and A.I. chatbots reveals new perspectives on love and relationships.

fromThe Atlantic

Imagine a Chatbot That Actually Knew How to Talk to You

AI companies are focusing on developing emotionally intelligent tools to enhance user interaction and empathy.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

The Claude-lash is here: Opus 4.7 is burning through tokens and some people's patience

Opus 4.7 faces criticism for mistakes, high token usage, and perceived regression compared to previous models.

Medicine

Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?

fromwww.npr.org

Arts

Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots for fun

fromComputerworld

The dark side of chatbots with 'personality'

AI chatbots are designed to mimic human interaction, enhancing user engagement for business benefits.

Medicine

fromwww.bbc.com

2 days ago

Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?

AI chatbots can provide tailored health advice but may also give dangerously incorrect information, impacting users' health decisions.

fromwww.npr.org

Arts

Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots for fun

fromComputerworld

fromSpeckyboy Design Magazine

The dark side of chatbots with 'personality'

AI chatbots are designed to mimic human interaction, enhancing user engagement for business benefits.

more#ai-chatbots

Web design

1 day ago

How AI Could Change Collaboration for Web Designers & Developers - Speckyboy

Connecting with web professionals enhances learning and productivity, while AI is transforming workflows and relationships in the industry.

Philosophy

2 days ago

AI and the Meaningless Gap

The comparison between AI and human intelligence may be fundamentally flawed as they occupy different spaces of cognition.

Node JS

fromRaymondcamden

Summarizing Docs with Built-in AI

On-device summarization of various document types, including Office formats, is achievable using libraries like officeParser and Chrome's Summary API.

DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages

DeepL launched a voice translation suite for real-time spoken communication in various business settings, supporting over 40 languages.

DeepL, known for text translation, now wants to translate your voice | TechCrunch

DeepL launched a voice-to-voice translation suite for various use cases, including meetings and group conversations, along with an API for developers.

European startups

fromTNW | Launch

DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages

DeepL launched a voice translation suite for real-time spoken communication in various business settings, supporting over 40 languages.

DeepL, known for text translation, now wants to translate your voice | TechCrunch

DeepL launched a voice-to-voice translation suite for various use cases, including meetings and group conversations, along with an API for developers.

more#translation

Character.AI's new Books mode turns reading into roleplay

Character.AI's new 'Books' mode allows users to engage with over 20 classic public domain titles, offering a structured roleplaying experience that aims to broaden perceptions of AI interactions.

Books

Photography

This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

The Poetry Camera generates AI poems from photos instead of images, combining playful design with a frustrating user experience.

DevOps

fromTechzine Global

Claude Opus 4.7 is no Mythos, and that's a good thing

Claude Opus 4.7 improves software engineering, vision, and agentic tasks, but is not the risky Mythos model Anthropic refrains from fully releasing.

Apple

Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac

Perplexity has launched Personal Computer for Mac, a software that enhances multi-model orchestration for managing tasks and workflows.

Graphic design

Anthropic now has a design assistant too

Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a tool for generating designs and prototypes using its advanced vision model, Opus 4.7.

fromBusiness Insider

Why Midi Health holds AI office hours

Joanna Strober recognized a business opportunity in women's health, particularly for menopausal women, and demonstrated grit and patience in securing investor support.

Women

Relationships

fromFortune

fromwww.socialmediatoday.com

Teen boys are dating their AI chatbots-and experts warn opting out of real relationships could hurt their careers in the future | Fortune

Gen Alpha prefers AI relationships for control and ease, risking essential social skills needed for real-life interactions and future careers.

Social media marketing

LinkedIn expands AI-powered conversational search

LinkedIn expands AI-powered conversational search tools to all users, enhancing search capabilities and personalization for better discovery.

Web development

Opera adds Browser Connector for integrating AI chatbots

Opera introduces Browser Connector, allowing integration of ChatGPT or Claude for enhanced browsing with AI assistance.

#roblox

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Roblox AI assistant gets agentic tools to plan, build, and self-test games

Roblox is enhancing its AI assistant with capabilities for planning, procedural generation, and self-correction, transforming it into a junior development partner.

Video games

Roblox's AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games | TechCrunch

Roblox is enhancing its AI tools to assist developers in planning, building, and testing games more effectively.

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Roblox AI assistant gets agentic tools to plan, build, and self-test games

Roblox is enhancing its AI assistant with capabilities for planning, procedural generation, and self-correction, transforming it into a junior development partner.

Video games

Roblox's AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games | TechCrunch

Roblox is enhancing its AI tools to assist developers in planning, building, and testing games more effectively.

SoundHound AI Rallies 6%: Can This Agentic AI Stock Keep the Momentum Going Into Earnings?

SoundHound AI stock is experiencing a significant surge driven by short squeeze mechanics and supported by recent business wins.

5 hours ago

The chat box isn't a UI paradigm. It's what shipped.

The chat interface became the default AI design due to speed of development, not user effectiveness or clarity.

#google

fromGSMArena.com

Mobile UX

Google app with AI Mode is now available for Windows worldwide

Google's 'live' AI search assistant can handle conversations in dozens more languages

Google expands Search Live, allowing voice and camera searches in over 200 countries with a new AI model for improved responses.

fromGSMArena.com

Mobile UX

Google app with AI Mode is now available for Windows worldwide

Google's 'live' AI search assistant can handle conversations in dozens more languages

Google expands Search Live, allowing voice and camera searches in over 200 countries with a new AI model for improved responses.

BEACN Creates A Voice-First Headset, Releasing Spring 2026

BEACN launched a premium wireless headset focused on delivering high-quality voice and sound for online communication.

#enterprise-ai

18 hours ago

Making agents dull

Enterprise AI will thrive when it becomes governable, portable, observable, and reliable, akin to the stability achieved with Kubernetes.

Mastering the dull reality of sexy AI

The gap in enterprise AI lies in building effective systems for retrieval, evaluation, memory, and governance, not just access to models.

18 hours ago

Making agents dull

Enterprise AI will thrive when it becomes governable, portable, observable, and reliable, akin to the stability achieved with Kubernetes.

Mastering the dull reality of sexy AI

The gap in enterprise AI lies in building effective systems for retrieval, evaluation, memory, and governance, not just access to models.

What AI Can't Calculate About a Human Life

Human life is a singular, unrepeatable event, contrasting with AI's reliance on patterns and probabilities.

European startups

fromFast Company

AI isn't built for all languages and cultures. There's a push to fix that

Assem Sabry created Horus, an AI model focused on Egyptian culture, to address the lack of representation in the AI industry.

I'm ChatGPT. I'm Designed to Help You-and Keep You Here

Responses from AI can subtly influence user perceptions and behaviors, emphasizing convenience over the importance of human connection.

fromThe Cool Down

Marketing tech

AI chatbots are subtly trying to make you buy more stuff - here's how to protect yourself

fromSemafor

Social media marketing

Chatbots are learning from Reddit and LinkedIn

Psychology

I'm ChatGPT. I'm Designed to Help You-and Keep You Here

Responses from AI can subtly influence user perceptions and behaviors, emphasizing convenience over the importance of human connection.

fromThe Cool Down

AI chatbots are subtly trying to make you buy more stuff - here's how to protect yourself

AI can influence consumer purchasing decisions without their awareness, often through subtle persuasion methods.

Social media marketing

fromSemafor

Chatbots are learning from Reddit and LinkedIn

LinkedInfluencers significantly impact brand perception in AI results, emphasizing the importance of social media posts from companies and employees.

Google Opens Gemma 4 Under Apache 2.0 with Multimodal and Agentic Capabilities

Google's Gemma 4 models feature advanced capabilities in video, image processing, and audio input, with significant improvements in performance metrics.

Digital life

Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode | TechCrunch

Google's AI Mode enhances web exploration by allowing side-by-side browsing and contextual search across multiple tabs.

Mental health

fromFuturism

Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds

Young people are increasingly skeptical of AI, recognizing its addictive nature and negative impacts on their lives despite initial engagement.

18 hours ago

AI is ruining the way you talk about your work

AI design tools influence how designers communicate their ideas and feedback.

How the Amazon Echo learned to talk - and listen

Jeff Bezos had been vocal about his desire for a voice computer, believing it would simplify interactions with technology and enhance the shopping experience on Amazon.

Podcast

#llms

5 hours ago

UX design

The web trained AI to deceive. Now designers have to untrain it.

Artificial intelligence

Do AI Chatbots Have Personalities?

5 hours ago

The web trained AI to deceive. Now designers have to untrain it.

LLMs replicate UX dark patterns from the web, leading to deceptive design practices in generated content.

Artificial intelligence

Do AI Chatbots Have Personalities?

Google quietly releases an offline-first AI dictation app on iOS | TechCrunch

Google released an offline-first dictation app called Google AI Edge Eloquent for iOS, featuring advanced speech recognition and text editing capabilities.

fromWIRED

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

AI is increasingly being used in journalism to generate content, raising concerns about the quality and authenticity of writing.

OpenAI brings ChatGPT's Voice mode to CarPlay

OpenAI's chatbot can't control car functions. If you want to adjust the cabin temperature or skip tracks, you'll still need Siri for those tasks.

Apple

#ai-design

fromUX Magazine

UX design

The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First

fromTheregister

Anthropic debuts Claude Design, because who needs designers?

Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI service for creating visual assets, impacting the design industry and potentially displacing jobs.

fromUX Magazine

The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First

Fluency without verifiability in AI design is inadequate and poses risks in high-stakes environments.

fromTheregister

Anthropic debuts Claude Design, because who needs designers?

Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI service for creating visual assets, impacting the design industry and potentially displacing jobs.

Speechify's Windows app uses local models for transcription and dictation | TechCrunch

Speechify launched a Windows app for dictation and reading aloud, processing voice entirely on-device for enhanced user experience.

AI, UX, and the factory model

The digital design landscape is shifting towards a factory model, redefining roles and metrics of success in software development.

Cohere launches an open-source voice model specifically for transcription | TechCrunch

Cohere's Transcribe model is designed for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis, supporting 14 languages and optimized for consumer-grade GPUs, making it accessible for self-hosting.

European startups

Mindfulness

How Saying "Please" to AI Changes the Way We Think About It

Using polite language with AI creates perceived relationships that reduce objectivity and increase unhealthy reliance on its responses.

WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations | TechCrunch

WhatsApp introduces AI-powered features for suggested replies, message drafting, photo touch-ups, and space management, enhancing user experience and privacy.

A human approach to Agentic AI. One person. One text file. Five agents.

A soft-agent team of AI assists in book creation and management without requiring coding skills.

Startup companies

Your users aren't human anymore; start building for agents today

A human approach to Agentic AI. One person. One text file. Five agents.

A soft-agent team of AI assists in book creation and management without requiring coding skills.

Startup companies

Your users aren't human anymore; start building for agents today

more#ai-agents

fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

1 week ago

Your Voice Wearable and Robot Hear the Words Mute People Can't Say - Yanko Design

Your Voice transforms attempted speech into audible communication for those with speech impairments, enhancing accessibility and immediacy.

fromFortune

Forget the chatbot wars. Demis Hassabis is thinking about something far bigger | Fortune

AI leadership should be global and diverse to ensure ethical development and deployment.

fromFast Company

Duolingo was evaluating its workers' AI use. Workers pushed back.

Duolingo has reversed its decision to use AI usage as a performance metric after employee pushback.

fromwww.theguardian.com

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak and think | Bruce Schneier

Large language models limit human language representation, risking changes in communication and thought patterns due to increased AI-generated text exposure.

fromFortune

Anthropic faces user backlash over reported performance issues in its Claude AI chatbot | Fortune

Anthropic faces backlash over Claude AI's declining performance and perceived lack of transparency amid rising user dissatisfaction and potential IPO plans.

The art of conversational flow

Conversational design requires strategic interface selection across text, voice, visual, and adaptive formats, with careful consideration of when humans participate in AI-driven workflows.

#voice-ai

Building enterprise voice AI agents: A UX approach

Voice AI in enterprises needs to prioritize human interaction over technical improvements for effective collaboration.

Artificial intelligence

ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI | TechCrunch

Voice is becoming the primary AI interface, enabling hands-free, agentic interactions across devices by combining expressive speech with large language model reasoning.

Building enterprise voice AI agents: A UX approach

Voice AI in enterprises needs to prioritize human interaction over technical improvements for effective collaboration.

Artificial intelligence

ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI | TechCrunch

'My new AI voice keeps my personality alive'

AI technology enables a motor neurone disease patient to communicate using a reconstructed version of her own voice, restoring personal identity and family connection.

fromFast Company

AI is teaching us to speak like bots and its a problem

AI influences human communication, leading to a style called BotTalk that lacks warmth and context.

fromThe Drum

Getting the first word in voice search

Voice search usage is growing, creating brand opportunities while requiring optimisation for accuracy, shopping trust, and adaptation to screenless interactions.

Psychology

Conversational AI and Emotional Intelligence

Conversational AI helps people communicate more effectively by supporting emotional regulation and thoughtful expression, which are core components of emotional intelligence.

Apple

fromTechRepublic

Apple Unveils Steps to Make Siri Sound Human - TechRepublic

A method reduces text-to-speech latency to make Siri and other voice-driven products sound more responsive while preserving intelligibility and accuracy.

fromGSMArena.com

Amazon's Alexa+ AI chatbot is now available to everyone in the US, with a catch

Alexa+ is available to all US users; Prime members receive free unlimited access, non-Prime users can pay $19.99/month or use a limited free chat.

How developers can bring voice AI into telephony applications

Voice AI agents require complex infrastructure beyond LLMs to integrate with legacy telephony systems, demanding flexible architecture designed for component switching and evolution.

fromZDNET

I wrote off ChatGPT's voice mode, then found 7 ways it's genuinely useful

Talking to ChatGPT feels more collaborative than typing. It shines for brainstorming, prep, and translation. Usage limits can interrupt productivity mid-session. Voice Mode runs on mobile devices, as well as in your browser. On mobile, there are two ChatGPT widgets available for the lock screen. One widget opens the app, and one launches ChatGPT Voice.

Artificial intelligence

An AI Voice Is Not a Mind

AI systems select and perform contextually appropriate personas rather than expressing unified selves with genuine beliefs, creating fluency that mimics mind without possessing interiority or conviction.

fromSocial Media Examiner

AI Voice Agents: How to Get Started : Social Media Examiner

AI voice agents offer low-cost, scalable customer service—around $0.08–$0.12 per minute—enabling proactive outreach, integrations with business systems, and improved operational efficiency.

fromBusiness Matters