Matter smart home. With privacy being such a key part of Matter, it feels odd to be reliant on a cloud-based voice assistant.

Have you ever noticed how all digital assistants seem to sound the same? Well, they don't have to. Alternative digital assistant voices and accents are tucked away on many devices, ready to assist you ...

We didn’t get a real update about Gemini on smart speakers and display at I/O 2025 last week, but Google Home recently added a new “Voice assistant experiments” setting for it. Since testing got ...

Have you ever wished your voice assistant could do more than just set alarms or tell you the weather? Imagine having a digital companion that not only understands your requests but also seamlessly ...

Many AI bots still feel and sound artificial because the chats seem more like question-and-answer sessions than engaging conversations. But some AI developers have unveiled more interactive versions ...

While iPhone users continue to wait for a truly smarter Siri, Perplexity just dropped a new voice mode for its AI chatbot. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including ...

Have you ever wondered if you could have a voice assistant that respects your privacy and doesn’t rely on cloud services? What if you could set up such an assistant right on your own computer? With ...