When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Chat GPT now has a voice The Android and iOS version of the chatbot can now read out your conversations. Open AI has announced via a post on X that its chatbot Chat GPT now has a new feature to help users with visual impairments. In the chatbot's Android and iOS apps, Chat GPT can now read out its responses to you. Simply tap on a message from the chatbot and select "Read Aloud."

After teasing us for weeks with trailers showing off the Pixel 8 series, Google is now ready to give us all the details about its latest flagships. The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro look largely the same as their predecessors, with a couple of key differences. The regular Pixel 8 is slightly smaller, which makes it easier to use with one hand. Meanwhile, the Pro model has a new matte finish, upgraded cameras and an intriguing temperature sensor. So, you might actually be able to hang on to your Pixel flagship for a lot longer than before.

Google will soon make it easier to interact with PDFs if you have low vision. The company is adding OCR (optical character recognition) technology to Chrome that can convert PDFs to text that makes them more accessible, particularly if you want a screen reader to read them aloud. The tool will also provide image descriptions. The feature will be available in the "coming months," Google says. The company also plans to expand the functionality beyond Chrome later this year, although it hasn't said which platforms might receive the upgrade.

I finally broke down and switched to Microsoft's Edge browser this week on my Windows PC, after many years of using Google Chrome. No, it wasn't the incessant and annoying prompts in Windows 11, urging me to make Edge my default, although the nagging did keep the Microsoft browser top of mind. For me, the tipping point was Edge's built-in "Read aloud" feature, and what sounds to my ears like major advances in some of Microsoft's synthesized voices, to the point that they're almost indistinguishable from human narrators. I've long been a fan of text-to-speech for listening to articles and long emails. I've used various apps and browser plugins over the years, some of them more seamless than others.

As good as it is to read with your kids, you might not always be there when they want to open a book. Amazon thinks it can fill in that gap, though. It just rolled out a long-teased Reading Sidekick feature that uses an Echo Kids device to help your kids read aloud on their own time. Children just have to tell Alexa "let's read" to take turns reading supported books, whether they're digital or physical. Your young ones won't always have to wait for you, in other words.

Medical workers are our heroes as the COVID-19 outbreak continues with deaths and confirmed cases rising. A CNN survey found that healthcare systems are coming under strain because of the increasing number of patients infected by the coronavirus. Partners Healthcare is supporting patients in the COVID-19 outbreak by using AI to detect those infected and those showing signs of the virus. Healthcare workers at Partners Healthcare understand the current crisis because of high patient numbers experienced and are working round the clock. One question that comes to mind as COVID-19 pandemic continues is: How responsible is the current use of AI to combat the outbreak?

We might still be far off from the time when computers can actually read our minds as we saw in the Hollywood Scifi thriller "Transcendence," but we have already taken the first steps in that direction. Elon Musk started a company called Neuralink (2016), which is working on a long-term goal of developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) called Neural Lace. The company recently announced the next phase where fine threads, thinner than the human hair will be implanted in a human brain to detect the activity of neurons. Neuralink plans to start human trials in the second quarter of 2020. While this process is invasive in nature, scientists have been working on parallel models where brain activity could be read by non-invasive means.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Are we moving a bit closer to the day when machines can read our minds? Scientists have developed a system using artificial intelligence that can turn brain activity into text. At the moment, it works on neural patterns interpreted when someone speaks aloud, but there is hope among researchers that it could eventually be used for patients who are unable to speak or type. "We are not there yet but we think this could be the basis of a speech prosthesis," Joseph Makin, co-author of the research from the University of California, San Francisco, told The Guardian.

Reading minds has just come a step closer to reality: scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can turn brain activity into text. While the system currently works on neural patterns detected while someone is speaking aloud, experts say it could eventually aid communication for patients who are unable to speak or type, such as those with locked in syndrome. "We are not there yet but we think this could be the basis of a speech prosthesis," said Dr Joseph Makin, co-author of the research from the University of California, San Francisco. Writing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Makin and colleagues reveal how they developed their system by recruiting four participants who had electrode arrays implanted in their brain to monitor epileptic seizures. These participants were asked to read aloud from 50 set sentences multiple times, including "Tina Turner is a pop singer", and "Those thieves stole 30 jewels".

Epilepsy patients with electrode implants have aided efforts to decipher speech. For many people who are paralyzed and unable to speak, signals of what they'd like to say hide in their brains. No one has been able to decipher those signals directly. But three research teams recently made progress in turning data from electrodes surgically placed on the brain into computer-generated speech. Using computational models known as neural networks, they reconstructed words and sentences that were, in some cases, intelligible to human listeners.