Poltergeist,' 'Peanuts,' duck quacks, and plenty of treats helped bring Ben Leonberg's haunted-house tale to the screen.

anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...

Dhwani is an interactive art installation that responds to human presence with light and sound. It bridges traditional craft ...

Here at Boing Boing, we've discussed misophonia - also known as "sound rage" or, as this article in the journal PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science) describes it, "a disorder characterized by a ...

Many people still think of AI-generated speech as sounding "fake" or unconvincing and easily told apart from human voices.

To study how dialects change over time, you need a single speaker who’s lived in different regions and has been recorded a ...

The clips provided some stunning clues to the researchers about the connection between humans' and chimps' auditory systems.

When The Sound of Music premiered on March 2, 1965, it instantly captured the hearts of so many people around the world. Sixty years later, those of us who grew up with the movie and adore it still ...

During a tour of Apple's audio labs and a meeting with Apple executives who helped oversee the development of the AirPods Pro 3, I was taken back to the future.

One morning before dawn, Sam wakes to sounds of his next-door neighbour screaming and swearing. He hears banging sounds, as of things being thrown around. He knows an older man, young woman and a ...

The Information Commissioner's Office, which enforces data protection rules, has warned the public to be on its guard against ...

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes ...