Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.

How do services like Amazon's Alexa understand your voice? Appliance Science looks at the role of machine learning and natural language processing in your voice-controlled future. Richard Baguley has ...

Olivia Daub’s two-year-old son is obsessed with “doodidees.” He talks about them and screams for them at 5 a.m. every day. Daub said most people don’t have a clue what her son is saying, but she knows ...